Lectures & Talks

Invited Talks & Panels

“Reza Abdoh’s Father was a Peculiar Man,” the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY (May 11, 2023)

Video documentation

“Reza Abdoh: Showtapes and Short Films,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (July 3, 2019)

“CAVE GIRLS + TRASHY FASHIONS: Unseen Post-Punk Videos by Women,” Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University (May 11, 2017)

Conference Presentations

“Bigger Than a Book: Theater and the American Novel Since 1960,” Theater and Transmedia Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research, Minneapolis, MN (November 2016)

“Starving, Hysterical, Naked: Allen Ginsberg and the Living Theatre,” Beyond the Postdramatic Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research. Portland, OR (November 2015)

“Civil War Maximalism at Century’s End: Robert Wilson’s The CIVIL warS and William Gaddis’s A Frolic Of His Own,” Global Modernism and the U.S. Civil War Panel, Modernist Studies Association, Boston, MA (November 2015)

“Jack Smith, Charles Ludlam, and the Objects of Camp,” Playing Downtown: Ridiculous, Camp, and Other Queer Ideas Panel, Association for Theater in Higher Education, Orlando, FL (August 2013)

Symposia and Colloquia

“Ron Vawter/Jack Smith: Queer Goodbyes and the New York Avant-Garde,” Farewell Performances: A Conference of Interdisciplinary Performance Studies at Yale, Yale University (April 2015)

“’A Text That Dare Not Sign Its Name:’ Placing Elizabeth Bishop and Con Spirito in Mary McCarthy’s The Group,” 20th/21st Century Colloquium, Yale University (December 2011)