INSTITUTE FOR DOCTORAL STUDIES
IN THE VISUAL ARTS
Presentation: “Maya Lin's Artwork Cultivates Diremption, Non-Attachment, and Ultimately Destitution as a Means of Coping with Human Extinction” on the art history panel Historical Reckoning on the Public Symbolic Landscape and Restorative Commemorative Projects at the SECAC Conference in Richmond, VA.
Presentation: "The Land as Companion: Portraits from Black Mountain College" at Reviewing: The Black Mountain College Conference in Asheville, NC.
Presentation: “Plant Beings: Portraits Signaling Beyond Humanism” at this panel and also at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference in Dallas, TX.
Co-chair with IDSVA student, Felix Lloyd, the two-session panel Beyond Humanism: Exploring Post- and Trans-Human Entanglements at SECAC in Atlanta, GA.
Designed and teaching the course "The Impact of Technology on Nineteenth-Century American Art" at Emerson College, Spring 2024.
Presentation: "Tree as Monument: Does Maya Lin's Ghost Forest Cultivate Hope as a Means of Coping with the Climate Catastrophe?” on the panel Learning from Trees: Artists and Climate Solutions at the CAA conference in Chicago, February 2024
Presentation: “Maya Lin's Artwork Cultivates Diremption, Non-Attachment, and Ultimately Destitution as a Means of Coping with Human Extinction” on the art history panel Historical Reckoning on the Public Symbolic Landscape and Restorative Commemorative Projects at the SECAC Conference in Richmond, VA.
Presentation: "Picture Planes and Glyph Exchange: Feminist Offerings Fueled by Spaces Between" at the Black Mountain College Museum Conference, October 2022.