Select Lectures & Presentations
2025 International Conference on Design Principles & Practice, LaSalle College Arts, Rochor, Singapore
Bodies-Thinking: Towards Support of Body-Literacy Goals in Design Education”
2024 Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Moderator of EscapeRoom Exhibition Panel
2023 The New York Public Library’s Jefferson Market Branch, New York, NY
Moderator of “Dear Readers Beyond Bars: Banned Manga and Explicitness in US Prison Censorship,”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mubpJHb_Tnc
2023 Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboration — Critical Making & Social Justice Conference, Brooklyn, New York
"Dear Readers Beyond Bars: Explicit!”
2023 College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY
“How Not to Reproduce the White Body Politic?: An Intersectional Analysis of Martha Rosler’s Vital Statics of A Citizen Simply Obtained”
2021 Master Series, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
“Reginald Gammon: Notes on Assembly”
2021 College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY
“Securitizing American Sight –Crystal Z. Campbell’s Model Citizen: Here I Stand”
2019 Association of the Study of Arts of the Present, College Park, MD
“Weaponizing & Witnessing Vulnerability: Antonio Salemme’s Negro Spiritual”
2019 Pratt Libraries, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
“Learn Something New: A Panel on Research Practice Across the Disciplines”
2019 College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY
Chair: “Race, Vision, and Surveillance” panel
“Marisa Williamson’s Among ghosts and other unseen subjects: A portrait of Sally Hemings”
2017 Southeastern College Art Conference, Columbus, OH
“Reframing Resistance & Surveillance: Lorraine O’Grady’s Art Is…”
2017 Newberry Library Seminar on American Art and Visual Culture Series, Newberry Library, IL
“Bringing the Movement Home: Kerry James Marshall’s Souvenir and Its Immanent Critique”
2017 National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, 40 Years after Combahee: Feminist Scholars and Activists Engage the Movement for Black Lives, Baltimore, MD
“Fictions that Refract: Cheryl Dunye’s and Zoe Leonard’s Civil Rights Era Lesbian”
2016 Whitney Independent Study Program: Critical Studies Symposium
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Mine the Gaps: Subliminal Civil Rights Struggle in Lorraine O’Grady’s Art Is…”
2015 Black Metropolis Research Consortium Symposium, Chicago State University, Chicago, IL
“Mediating the Civil Rights Movement: Kerry James Marshall’s Souvenir Paintings & Chicago Journalism”
2015 Black Arts Initiative Conference: Black Arts United States: Institutions and Interventions, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
“Angela Libre: A Matrix of Mass Cultural Expression”
2013 Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
Sincerely Yours Curators’ Tour at Special Event
2012 Convergence: The Geo/Body Politics of Emancipation, Colloquium, Duke University, Durham NC
“Interrogating Fantasy: Cultural Logic and Belief in the Art of Tracey Rose”