Conferences
2020 The College Art Association, Chicago.
Paper: "Laughing Mothers, Speaking Subjects" forthcoming.
2019 The Kristeva Circle, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Paper: “Mirroring Mothers: Witnessing Maternal Subjectivity in Sarah Irvin’s Breastfeeding Drawings”
2019 The College Art Association, New York, NY
Session Chair: Maternal Subjectivity in Contemporary Art, co-chaired with Dr. Susan Van Scoy.
Paper: Correcting Mirrors: Shame, Subjectivity, and Breastfeeding in Contemporary Art.
2018 The Kristeva Circle, California State University Northridge, Los Angeles
Paper: “Milk and Tears”: Abjection, Reliance, and Shame in Susana Guerrero’s Sculptures of Breastfeeding.
Representing the Kristeva Circle, this paper was re-presented at the 2019 Diverse Lineages of Existentialism Conference, Washington D.C.
2017 The Kristeva Circle, University of Pittsburg, PA
Paper: “The Time of Oblivion and Thunder": Cosmos, Intimacy, and Revolt in Claire Jacob-
Zysman’s Dance A Single Dot of Light (2012)
2015 The Kristeva Circle, University of Memphis, TN
Paper: “Motherhood According to Martha Graham: Dancing Jocasta”
2015 Southern Humanities Council conference, Athens, GA ; and 2013 National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of
Artists, School of Visual Arts, New York
Paper: “Collaborating with the Cosmos: Earthworks after Copernicus”
2014 Society of Dance History Scholars + Congress on Research in Dance joint conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Paper: “The (M)other of Language: Martha Graham ‘Writing a Script of Movement’ for Jocasta and Oedipus”
2014 Nomadikon/Center for Ethics of Seeing, Athens, GA, October 2014
Paper: “Reflections on Time: The Face in the Mirror”
2014 The Kristeva Circle, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Paper: “The Temporal Scar: Zeitlos and Revolt in Women’s Memorial Art”
2014 Southern Humanities Council conference, Richmond, VA
Paper: “Memorial: The Temporal Scar”
2012 National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY; and The Kristeva
Circle, Siena College, Loudonville, NY, October 2012
Paper: “Commodity Abjection: the Performance Art of Paul McCarthy”
2012 The 6th Nomadikon Conference: Ecologies of Seeing. Organized by the University of Bergen, Norway. Hosted by The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY
Paper: “Performing Painting: On the Time of Embodied Seeing”
2012 College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, February 2012
Session Chair: Intersections between Art and Dance in the Twentieth-Century
2011 National Conference on the Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, School of the Visual Arts, New York
Paper: Writing Art History as a Practice of Freedom
2011 College Art Association, New York, NY,
Paper: “Artist as Liar, Audience as Sucker: Commodity Fetishism in Paul McCarthy’s ‘Pinocchio’”
2006 International Association of Philosophy and Literature, University of Freiburg, Germany
Session Chair: “Collage, Layering, Juxtaposition”
2005 IAPL, University of Helsinki, Finland
Paper: “The Forgiving Eye: Art and Creativity after the Ethics of Kelly Oliver” [Respondent: Kelly Oliver]
2005: “The Fate of Interiority in Modern and Postmodern Art” Conference held at Stony Brook Manhattan
Discussant
2004 IAPL, Syracuse University and Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY
Paper: “Ritually Thinking the Eye: An Aesthetics and Ethics of Vision after the Work of Mario Perniola” [Respondent: Mario Perniola]
2003 IAPL, University of Leeds, England
Paper: “The Future of an Illusion: Psychoanalysis and Spirituality in the Work of Donald Kuspit” [Respondent: Donald Kuspit]
2020 The College Art Association, Chicago.
Paper: "Laughing Mothers, Speaking Subjects" forthcoming.
2019 The Kristeva Circle, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Paper: “Mirroring Mothers: Witnessing Maternal Subjectivity in Sarah Irvin’s Breastfeeding Drawings”
2019 The College Art Association, New York, NY
Session Chair: Maternal Subjectivity in Contemporary Art, co-chaired with Dr. Susan Van Scoy.
Paper: Correcting Mirrors: Shame, Subjectivity, and Breastfeeding in Contemporary Art.
2018 The Kristeva Circle, California State University Northridge, Los Angeles
Paper: “Milk and Tears”: Abjection, Reliance, and Shame in Susana Guerrero’s Sculptures of Breastfeeding.
Representing the Kristeva Circle, this paper was re-presented at the 2019 Diverse Lineages of Existentialism Conference, Washington D.C.
2017 The Kristeva Circle, University of Pittsburg, PA
Paper: “The Time of Oblivion and Thunder": Cosmos, Intimacy, and Revolt in Claire Jacob-
Zysman’s Dance A Single Dot of Light (2012)
2015 The Kristeva Circle, University of Memphis, TN
Paper: “Motherhood According to Martha Graham: Dancing Jocasta”
2015 Southern Humanities Council conference, Athens, GA ; and 2013 National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of
Artists, School of Visual Arts, New York
Paper: “Collaborating with the Cosmos: Earthworks after Copernicus”
2014 Society of Dance History Scholars + Congress on Research in Dance joint conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Paper: “The (M)other of Language: Martha Graham ‘Writing a Script of Movement’ for Jocasta and Oedipus”
2014 Nomadikon/Center for Ethics of Seeing, Athens, GA, October 2014
Paper: “Reflections on Time: The Face in the Mirror”
2014 The Kristeva Circle, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Paper: “The Temporal Scar: Zeitlos and Revolt in Women’s Memorial Art”
2014 Southern Humanities Council conference, Richmond, VA
Paper: “Memorial: The Temporal Scar”
2012 National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY; and The Kristeva
Circle, Siena College, Loudonville, NY, October 2012
Paper: “Commodity Abjection: the Performance Art of Paul McCarthy”
2012 The 6th Nomadikon Conference: Ecologies of Seeing. Organized by the University of Bergen, Norway. Hosted by The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY
Paper: “Performing Painting: On the Time of Embodied Seeing”
2012 College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, February 2012
Session Chair: Intersections between Art and Dance in the Twentieth-Century
2011 National Conference on the Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, School of the Visual Arts, New York
Paper: Writing Art History as a Practice of Freedom
2011 College Art Association, New York, NY,
Paper: “Artist as Liar, Audience as Sucker: Commodity Fetishism in Paul McCarthy’s ‘Pinocchio’”
2006 International Association of Philosophy and Literature, University of Freiburg, Germany
Session Chair: “Collage, Layering, Juxtaposition”
2005 IAPL, University of Helsinki, Finland
Paper: “The Forgiving Eye: Art and Creativity after the Ethics of Kelly Oliver” [Respondent: Kelly Oliver]
2005: “The Fate of Interiority in Modern and Postmodern Art” Conference held at Stony Brook Manhattan
Discussant
2004 IAPL, Syracuse University and Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY
Paper: “Ritually Thinking the Eye: An Aesthetics and Ethics of Vision after the Work of Mario Perniola” [Respondent: Mario Perniola]
2003 IAPL, University of Leeds, England
Paper: “The Future of an Illusion: Psychoanalysis and Spirituality in the Work of Donald Kuspit” [Respondent: Donald Kuspit]
Guest Lectures and Public Talks
2019 Lecture, McDaniel College, Westminster, MD
Title: Mirroring Mothers: Witnessing Maternal Subjectivity in Contemporary Art
2019 Presentation, English Department Faculty Works in Progress, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY
Title: Mirroring Mothers: Maternal Subjectivity in Contemporary Art
2017 Lecture, Feminist Art Reading Group, State University of New York at Albany
Title: “Maternity and Psychoanalysis: An Introduction to the Work of Julia Kristeva”
2017 Address for 20th Anniversary of the Hubbard Interfaith Sanctuary. The College of Saint Rose
Title: “Art and the Sacred”
2016 Lecture in conjunction with the College of Saint Rose’s Symphony Orchestra, cond. Dr. David Bebe, for its performance of Impressionist Music (Debussy and Ravel)
Title: Impressionist Art
2016 Keynote address for the 7th Annual Student Art Exhibit, New York State Office of General Services and Capital Area Art Supervisors, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY
Title: “Art Educates”
2016, 2014 Lecture, History of Twentieth-Century Dance, Prof. Ellen Sinopoli, Russell Sage College,
Troy, NY
Title: “Art and Dance Collaborations: Graham/Noguchi and Cunningham/Rauschenberg”
2012 Lecture and guided discussion of Jacques Derrida’s “Passe-Partout” from The Truth in Painting (1978), ART518 Contemporary Art History, Dr. Lucy Bowditch, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY
Title: “Derrida and Aesthetics”
2019 Lecture, McDaniel College, Westminster, MD
Title: Mirroring Mothers: Witnessing Maternal Subjectivity in Contemporary Art
2019 Presentation, English Department Faculty Works in Progress, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY
Title: Mirroring Mothers: Maternal Subjectivity in Contemporary Art
2017 Lecture, Feminist Art Reading Group, State University of New York at Albany
Title: “Maternity and Psychoanalysis: An Introduction to the Work of Julia Kristeva”
2017 Address for 20th Anniversary of the Hubbard Interfaith Sanctuary. The College of Saint Rose
Title: “Art and the Sacred”
2016 Lecture in conjunction with the College of Saint Rose’s Symphony Orchestra, cond. Dr. David Bebe, for its performance of Impressionist Music (Debussy and Ravel)
Title: Impressionist Art
2016 Keynote address for the 7th Annual Student Art Exhibit, New York State Office of General Services and Capital Area Art Supervisors, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY
Title: “Art Educates”
2016, 2014 Lecture, History of Twentieth-Century Dance, Prof. Ellen Sinopoli, Russell Sage College,
Troy, NY
Title: “Art and Dance Collaborations: Graham/Noguchi and Cunningham/Rauschenberg”
2012 Lecture and guided discussion of Jacques Derrida’s “Passe-Partout” from The Truth in Painting (1978), ART518 Contemporary Art History, Dr. Lucy Bowditch, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY
Title: “Derrida and Aesthetics”