Teaching

Winter 2027
(upcoming) ARTH 391 Art and its changing contexts: Women of the New York art world, 1945-1990
Concordia University, Montreal

Departing from normative discourses (white, male) that have shaped the history of American art, this course examines the changing context of the New York art world between 1945 and 1990 by centering the contributions of women artists, critics, and art workers to its development, and, most importantly, to its politicization. Looking closely at art practices (Yoko Ono, Ana Mendieta, Howardena Pindell), art criticism (Lucy R. Lippard, Jill Johnston), exhibition spaces (Just Above Midtown, A.I.R. Gallery, The New Museum), and art and/as activism (Art Workers Coalition, Ad Hoc Women Artists’ Committee, Black Emergency Cultural Coalition) by women pushing against their historical exclusion and erasure,  this course thinks through the deep social movements of the long mid-century—the civil rights movement, gay and lesbian liberation movement, anti-war activism, and feminist organizing—and how they intersected with and challenged the art world post-WWII. Structured thematically, weekly classes will trace unconventional, feminist histories of the New York art world by refocusing traditionally marginalized voices, and troubling conventional art history and historiography by engaging anecdote, gossip, and other improper objects (Latimer) as methodological tools.

Fall 2025ARTH 101  Introduction to visual studies
Queen’s University, Kingston
Spending time with art objects and their images, this course invites us to look slowly, thoughtfully and critically, and writing about what we see clearly with a precise vocabulary. We will learn to draw meaning from looking closely, and reflect on the politics of looking—how does looking at art and/in images inform and have the potential to shift our ideas about gender, race, class, and other differences? Organized thematically around ways of making art—painting, photography, performance, video, etc.—lectures and active learning activities will center contemporary artists, curators, and writers in conversation with each other, highlighting how artworks, exhibitions, and texts are all different but connected ways of looking at, and making sense of, the visual world.

Fall 2024FILM 331 Women and film: feminism and video art since 1960
Queen’s University, Kingston
This course explores the convergence of and connection between feminist thought and activism and moving-image art since the 1960s. Focused on video works and experimental films by women artists, such as Yoko Ono, Yvonne Rainer, Martha Rosler, and Howardena Pindell, it examines their histories, practices, and politics, and connects them to critical, intersectional, and transnational feminist literature. Weekly lectures are organized thematically, introducing key concepts, theories and methods mobilized in feminist video art and experimental film.