[forthcoming] “Is a Non-Capitalist Future Imaginable?: Embodied Practices and Slipstream Potentials in Amanda Strong’s Biidaaban” in “Decolonial Feminisms,” ed. Debashree Mukherjee and Pavitra Sundar, special issue, Feminist Media Histories 8, no. 1 (Winter 2022).
“Great Auk: Pinguinus impennis.” In becoming-Feral: a bestiarum vocabulum, edited by Josh Armstrong, Alexandra Lakind, Chessa Adsit-Morris, and Rebekka Saeter. Glasgow: Objet-a Creative Studio, 2021.
Please view my website to read a selection of my art criticism and journalism.
- [forthcoming] “Portals of the Past: Alma Lavenson’s Gold Mining Photographs and the Continuity of History,” 34th European Association for American Studies Conference. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain. April 6–8, 2022.
- “Embodied Virtual Reality: Responsibility, Relationality, and Continuity in Nature,” 34th Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Virtual. September 30–October 3, 2021.
- “Is a Non-Capitalist Future Imaginable?: Embodied Practices and Slipstream Potentials in Amanda Strong’s Biidaaban.” 37th Annual International Social Philosophy Conference: Revolutions and Reparations. Virtual. July 15–17, 2021.
- “Is a Post-Capitalist Future Imaginable?: Slipstream Potentials and Biskaabiiyang in Amanda Strong’s Biidaaban.” 15th Annual European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway/virtual. March 4–5, 2021.
- “Embodied Ecology: Enacting Relationships with Land in the Work of Ana Mendieta.” 109th Annual College Art Association Conference. Virtual. February 10–13, 2021.
- “Creating Meaningful Online Learning Experiences.” The Humanities Institute and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning. UC Santa Cruz. November 13, 2020.
- “A Grammar of Animacy for Visual Art.” Poster session. 108th Annual College Art Association Conference. Chicago, IL. February 12-15, 2020.
- “Shifting Perspectives from the Human to the Non-Human in Patricio Guzmán’s The Pearl Button.” 33rd Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. UC Irvine, Irvine, CA. November 7–9, 2019.
- “Shifting Perspectives from the Human to the Non-Human in Patricio Guzmán’s The Pearl Button.” Art and the Sea. Centre for Port and Maritime History. University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK. September 12–13, 2019.
- Filmmaker Q&A. Jefferson State FLIXX FEST. Ft. Jones, CA. September 24, 2017.
- “Matthew Tedford & Kristen Brown.” Visual & Critical Studies Forum. California College of the Arts, San Francisco. March 2, 2016.
- “Tactics of Engagement in Art: Politics, Pluralism, and Program.” Visual and Critical Studies Symposium 2011. California College of the Arts, San Francisco. May 2011.
- “Ideological Subject Formation: Agency and Freedom is Althusser’s Materialism.” 27th Annual International Social Philosophy Conference: Poverty, Markets, and Justice. Ryerson University, Toronto, ON. July 15–17, 2010.
- “Ideology, Identity, and Subject Formation: Determinism or Freedom in Althusser?” 20th Annual Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Conference: Life, Politics, Resistance & Beyond, Binghamton University, Vestal, NY. April 2010.
- “Ideology, Identity, and Subject Formation: Determinism or Freedom in Althusser?” Identities Symposium. California College of the Arts. November 2009.
2021: Creative Ecologies/Sawyer Seminar Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz
2021: Feminist Media Histories Initiative Summer Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz
2021: Regent’s Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz
2021: Louis and Sarah Sloss Graduate Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz
2021: Ford Graduate Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz
2021: Visual Studies Travel & Research Grant, UC Santa Cruz
2021: Visual Studies COVID Research Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz
2020–21: Mellon Graduate Student Success Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz
2020: National Humanities Center Graduate Student Summer Residency
2020: Bhojwani Family Endowed Graduate Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz
2019-20: Mellon Graduate Student Success Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz
2019-20: Regent’s Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz
2019: Florence French Scholarship, UC Santa Cruz
2016: Grantee, Puffin Foundation
2010: Graduate Student Travel Grant, California College of the Arts
2008: Junior Fellows Program, Stevenson College, UC Santa Cruz