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PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Assistant Professor of Critical + Cultural Studies
Emily Carr University of Art + Design, 2019-present
Postdoctoral Fellow
President's Intercultural and Diversity Advisory Council and the Race and Ethnic Studies Program
University of Southern Maine, 2018-19
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
New Mexico State University, 2017-18
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
New York Institute of Technology, Fall 2016
Lecturer of English
University of Washington, 2015-16
EDUCATION
Ph.D., English
University of Washington
M.A., Art History, Theory, and Criticism
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
B.A. cum laude, English and Fine Arts, Minor in Asian American Studies
University of Pennsylvania
PUBLICATIONS
“Drawing Together: How, To Be, 57,” Lucie Chan: How to Be 57. Hall Printing and Oxygen Art Centre, 2022 (commissioned exhibition catalog essay)
“Critical Race Theory Today: A Roundtable Conversation,” with Juliane Okot Bitek, Kesha Fevrier, Vidya Shah, Deanna Reder, Jules Gill-Peterson, Journal for Critical Race Inquiry 9.2 (2022) Special Issue: “Critical Race Theory Today”: 116-138
“Art’s Work in Mnemonic Care,” Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 42.1 (2022) Special Issue: “The Care Dossier I”: 130-133 (solicited book review)
“Runaway Slave Portraiture, Aesthetic Culture, and the Emergence of Racial Sense,” Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus 18.1 (Spring 2022) Special Issue: “No Template: Art and the Technologies of Race”: 6-30
“The Skyscraper's Unseeing Eyes: Louis Sullivan, Nella Larsen, and Racial Formalism,” American Literature 89.3 (September 2017): 439-462
Racial Sense and the Making of Aesthetic Modernity, monograph in progress
INVITED TALKS and LECTURES
Invited Talk: “Going Dark: Aesthetic Strategies and Anti-Colonial Solidarities.” Dark Opacities Lab Launch, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, November 2, 2023
Invited Talk: "Racial Sense and the Making of Aesthetic Modernity." Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Cooper Union, New York, NY, February 22, 2023
Keynote Lecture: “Art’s Work: Pedagogies for Art’s Alternate Histories.” Open Art Histories Pedagogy Institute, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, June 16, 2022
Invited Talk: "Racial Surveillance and the Production of Visual Culture." Faculty of Culture + Community, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC, April 27, 2019
Invited Lecture: "The Aesthetic Afterlives of Slavery: Racial Surveillance and American Visual Culture." Faculty Lecture Series, Department of English, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, April 11, 2019
Invited Lecture: "Women of Color Feminisms and Diversity Work at the University." President's Intercultural and Diversity Council, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, December 5, 2018
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
“Visual Regimes of Race: On the Alterhuman, Inscrutable, Material, Opaque,” Panel Chair. American Studies Association, Montreal, QC, November 4, 2023
An Abridged Dark Opacities Lab Manifesto,” Paper Presentation with co-author Balbir K. Singh. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, October 6, 2023
Critical Race Theory Roundtable, Invited Participant. Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, November 30, 2022
“Emergent Pedagogies,” Panel Moderator. Social Practice and Community Engagement Symposium, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, October 29, 2022
"A+++ Workshop: Alternative Grading Practices,” Invited Presentation. Film Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference, May 12-15, 2022
“Talking the Walk: Reflections on 360 Riot Walk,” Invited Presentation. Powell Street Festival in partnership with Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, Vancouver, BC, May 29, 2021
“Online Critiques and the Politics of Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning,” Invited Panelist. Teaching and Learning Centre Fireside Chat Series, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, February 11, 2021
“Art and Social Justice Practices at the University,” Invited Panelist. Patricia Summerville Visiting Arts Professionals Panel, Murray State University Department of Art and Design, Murray, KY, October 29, 2020
“Face Time: Prehistories of the Selfie,” Roundtable Participant. C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Conference, October 16, 2020
"Race, Abstraction, and the Emergence of Racial Visuality," Seminar Participant. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, October 12, 2019
"Antiracist Pedagogies in the Discipline," Invited Talk and Roundtable Host. Center for Collaboration & Development and the President's Intercultural and Diversity Council, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, March 1, 2019
"Pedagogies Against Right-Wing Ideologies: Strategies in an Era of Trump, Modi, and Duterte," Roundtable Participant. American Studies Association, Chicago, IL, November 9, 2017
"Runaway Slave Portraiture and the Emergence of Racial Blackness," Panel Chair and Paper. The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the United States, Cambridge, MA, April 30, 2017
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Film in Diaspora
Community Film Screening Program co-organized with Alla Gadassik
Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC
January 11 & 25, February 8 & 29, March 14 & 28
Art in the Flesh: A Public Class at This Exhibition is Not an Exhibition
Community Events co-organized with Alla Gadassik
Libby Leshgold Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC
November 21 & 28, 2022
How to Be Your Own Art Historian
Lecture and Workshop Series, Organizer and Facilitator
Teaching and Learning Centre and Office of Research and Industry
Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC
Fall 2020 – Spring 2021
Earth: Esteban Peréz
Artist Talk and Panel co-organized with Esteban Peréz and Jay White
Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC
February 27, 2020
Xenology: Drawing in Response to Octavia Butler’s Dawn at Wild Seed: The 2nd Annual Octavia E. Butler Birthday Tribute
Exhibition and Catalog co-organized with Megan Hyde
Jaam Rek, Seattle, WA
July 12, 2014
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Studies Association
Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
Film and Media Studies Association of Canada
National Center for Institutional Diversity Scholars Network at the University of Michigan
The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the United States
The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
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