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ABOUT I am an art historian and visual studies scholar teaching and working in New Mexico. My research explores the material and cultural life of objects, sites, and structures often on the borders of art history, such as outsider art and craft practices, the art history of synthetics, toxicity in art, landscape and land use, and representations of ruin. I also teach studio classes in functional ceramics. In addition to research and teaching, I am an independent curator specializing in the development and execution of online exhibitions, virtually accessible archives and collections, and digital preservation techniques. I hold a Ph.D. in Visual Studies from the University of California, Irvine and a M.A. in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from The Ohio State University. My dissertation project at UCI examines the material and cultural history of industrial collage, latex, and polymer plastics in the sculptural works of German-American artist Eva Hesse from 1964-1969. |
Publications
“Dorothy Arzner.” In Hollywood Heroines: The Most Important Women in Film History, edited by Laura L.S. Bauer, 98-99. ABC-CLIO, 2019.
“Disrupting Cause-and-Effect Narratives of Pornography and Violence: A Contextual and Theoretical Case Study of Sexual Violence in Mainstream Media.” Oculus 1, 1 (2010): 77-91.
“The Grand Odalisque and Feminist Psychoanalysis: Hegemonic and Subversive Re-Interpretation of an Image.” Ohio State Libraries (2008): 1-28.
“Disrupting Cause-and-Effect Narratives of Pornography and Violence: A Contextual and Theoretical Case Study of Sexual Violence in Mainstream Media.” Oculus 1, 1 (2010): 77-91.
“The Grand Odalisque and Feminist Psychoanalysis: Hegemonic and Subversive Re-Interpretation of an Image.” Ohio State Libraries (2008): 1-28.
Exhibition Reviews
“Fred Tomaselli.” CAA Reviews (November 12, 2015). http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/2639 - .Vz3zEmNh2A8
“#1 must have: a photo zine for queers at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art." Museums & Social Issues 9.1 (April 2014): 69-74.
“#1 must have: a photo zine for queers at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art." Museums & Social Issues 9.1 (April 2014): 69-74.
Curatorial Projects
Tiny Topographies: New Mexico in Miniature
TBA
In progress with the Miniature and Curious Collections Museum in Roswell, New Mexico.
Critical Theory Archive Portal
2019
UC Irvine Libraries, Special Collections & Archives, Irvine, California
https://cta.lib.uci.edu
A Desert Guidebook
2016
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
http://www.adesertguidebook.com
TBA
In progress with the Miniature and Curious Collections Museum in Roswell, New Mexico.
Critical Theory Archive Portal
2019
UC Irvine Libraries, Special Collections & Archives, Irvine, California
https://cta.lib.uci.edu
A Desert Guidebook
2016
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
http://www.adesertguidebook.com
Media Attention
"The Fabricated American Desert," Verso, The Blog of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, https://www.huntington.org/verso/2018/08/fabricated-american-desert
