"Portrait of the Author as a Female Artist"
"The American Objectivists"
PAPERS & PERFORMANCES
2021 “Binging the Borderlands: Chicana Feminism in the Mass Public Sphere,” ACLA. (Held virtually due to COVID-19)
2017 “Portrait of the Author as a Female Artist: New Narrative, the Body, and the Art World,” experimental paper/performance given at Communal Presence: New Narrative Today Conference, University of California Berkeley
2017 "Bunny Lang," role in "The American Objectivists" by Kevin Killian and Brian Kim Stefans, Communal Presence: New Narrative Today Conference, University of California Berkeley
2016 "Marian Dunton," role in "Turn on the Heat by AA Fair" by Dodie Bellamy, Second Annual Poets Theater Festival, Links Hall, Chicago
2016 "Mary Mulhair, role in "Box of Rain" by Kevin Killian, Second Annual Poets Theater Festival, Links Hall, Chicago
2016 “Nothing Personal: Avedon, Baldwin, and the Politics of Banality,” paper given at American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge
2015 “’Why are you taking their picture?’: Looking, Reading, Feeling like an American in the Art of Andy Warhol,” paper given at American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Sheraton Hotel, Seattle
2014 “Reading Color: Looking Through Language In Warhol,” paper given at American Studies Association Conference, Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles
2013 “It Doesn’t Really Taste Like Anything: Reviews, Unboxing, and Corporeality,” given at Cultural Studies Association Conference, Columbia College Chicago
2013 “Cuter in Real Life: Aline Kominsky-Crumb’s Approach to Autobiography,” paper given at 10th Annual UF Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, University of Florida
2012 “Trauma Under the Microscope: Collected Perspectives on PTSD,” presentation for the Art/Science Initiative, University of Chicago