EDUCATION
2016-2022: PhD in Theory and Criticism, Western University, contemporary art emphasis
2015: M.A. in Humanities, University of Chicago
2011: B.A. in Liberal Arts, St. John’s College, Annapolis
HONORS AND AWARDS
Juror, Prospectus Curator Program, Brew House Association, 2023
Juror, Pedantic Arts Residency (Writing), Pittsburgh, PA, 2023-24
Prospectus Curator, Brew House Association, 2022
Graduate Student Teaching Award (nominated), Western University, 2018
Graduate Research Travel Award, Western University, 2018-2019.
Artist-in-residence, Sundress Academy for the Arts, Knoxville, TN May 2017
Dean’s Entrance Scholarship, Western University, 2016-2017 (one year only)
Where Are You Press Poet finalist, 2016
Hodson Fellow, St. John’s College, 2011
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Critical fat studies, fat phenomenology, politics of aesthetics, philosophies of technology, ethics and ontology, autonomist Marxism, modern political philosophy, contract theory, capitalist ethics, surveillance studies, war and new media, materialist feminism, queer temporalities, politics of science fiction.
EMPLOYMENT
Carnegie Museum of Natural HistoryPittsburgh, PA
May 2023-Present
Writer/Content Developer, Exhibitions
College of Fine Arts
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
August 2022-December 2022
Graduate Assistant
Bunker Projects
Pittsburgh, PA
August 2022-Present
Operations Coordinator
Bunker Review
Pittsburgh, PA
June 2021-Present
Editor-in-chief
University of Western Ontario
September 2021-April 2022
Teaching Assistant
Course Title: Building Better (Communication) Bridges: Rhetoric and Professional
University of Western Ontario
May 2018-August 2020
Research Assistant
Professor Nandita Mellamphy, Political Science Department
University of Western Ontario
September-April 2018
Teaching Assistant
Course Title: Introduction to Sexuality Studies (WOMENST 1021F)
University of Western Ontario
2016-April 2018
Teaching Assistant
Course Title: Gender, Justice, Change (WOMENST 1022G)
University of Western Ontario
September 2016-December 2016
Teaching Assistant
Course Title: Gender and Fashion (WOMENST 2164A)
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Bunker Projects Gallery and Residency
Pittsburgh, PA
September 2021-Present
Board Vice President
Andy Warhol Museum
Pittsburgh, PA
October 2019-February 2021
Curatorial Research Assistant
Chiasma Journal
2017-2018
Review Editor
PUBLICATIONS
- “Portals of the Present, Specters of the Future,” catalog essay, Radial Survey III at Silver Eye, November 2023
- “Exploded iPhone Notes: Tara Fay Coleman on the Dialectics of Intimacy Culture,” Cornelia Magazine Issue 12, June 2023
- “Ultraviolet Blackness,” Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, December 2022
- “Why does the Art World Hate Fat People?” Hyperallergic, October 2022
- “Artists Find Creative Ways to Raise Food Insecurity Awareness,” Hyperallergic, January 2022
- “Lost Future: on the work of Nam June Paik,” art-agenda, December 2021
- “Sidney Mullis is Your Imaginary Friend,” Femme Art Review, September 2021
- “Hito Steyerl’s Zero-Sum Universe,” Square Cylinder, September 2021
- Untitled feature essay, art-agenda, September 2021 (forthcoming)
- Donkeygirl chapbook, Really Serious Literature, August 2021
- Interviewer, “Making Attachments: In Discussion with Barbara Weissberger,” Femme Art Review, March 2021
- “'Artificial night’: on Dawoud Bey’s America,” art-agenda, December 2020
- Reviewer, The Soft State of Custodia, Bunker Review, October 2020
- Reviewer, Opposing Geometries by Trevor Paglen, art-agenda, September 2020
- Reviewer, “Toward a Politics of Immediation,” Erin Manning, Frontiers in Sociology, 2018
- “Objects that Matter: Bodies, Art and Big Data,” Interview with artist Katherine Behar, Chiasma, 2018
- “Creating Killing Machines: On the Relationship between Art and Predation in Surveillance Capitalism,” Evental Aesthetics, 2018 Web Publication
CONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS
- Panelist, EAT ME exhibition, Collar Works, June 2023
- Speaker, Education and Awareness, Apple Inc., January 2023
- Artveillance presentation, Depaul Graduate Conference on Carcerial Capitalism, February 2022
- Organizer, Technoaesthetics Panel, NeMLA 2020
- Untitled Presentation, Depaul Graduate Conference on Necropolitics, April 2019
- Untitled Presentation, Posthuman Studies Institute, Laurier University, March 2019.
- “Digital Labor: an Emotional Tale of the Non-human,” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Toronto, ON, November 2018.
- “Drone Warfare,” International Conference on Communication & Media Studies, University of California Berkeley, October 2018.
- “Alien Capital and the Posthuman,” Posthuman Studies Institute, Brock University, April 2018.
- Roundtable: Human, Animal, Post-Human: Ecocriticism and Materialism in a Global Context, NeMLA, April 2018.
- Panel: “Aerial Assault: Drone Warfare, Precision Bombing, and Combatant Experience,” NeMLA, April 2018.
- “Droning On: The Art of Predation and Art-As-Predatory,” Film and Media Studies Conference, Yale University, February 2018.
- “Curating the Clone: the Science-Fiction of Laruelle’s Non-Philosophy,” The Big No, 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, April 2017.
- "Implant vs. Transplant: the Necessity of the Feminine in Esposito’s Immunitary Biopolitics,” New Italian Thought Conference, King’s College, March 2017.
ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Vice President, Bunker Projects Board, 2023-Present
Board Member, Bunker Projects, 2021-Present
Representative, Equity Committee, University of Western Ontario, 2017-2019
Founding Member, Decolonial Intersectional Feminist Caucus, UWO, 2016-2017
Steward, Public Service Alliance of Canada, Local 610, 2017-2018
Organizer, Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, University of Western Ontario, 2017
Representative, Committee for Graduate Studies, University of Western Ontario, 2016-2018
LANGUAGES
Russian (native), Spanish (reading and speaking proficiency)