FORTHCOMING
2024 Graphic Medicine Conference, Keynote, University of Athlone, Ireland
PAST TALKS
I need to update the past few years!
2024 University of Leeds (online), “Comics & Cognition: The Power of Visual Thinking,” in conversation with Prof. Neil Cohn
2024 Teachers College, Columbia University (online), Panelist, Multimodality and Academic Publishing (recording)
2023 Teachers College, Columbia University (online), Exhibition Panelist for Modes: A Multimodal Dissertation Exhibit
2023 University of California Santa Cruz Cowell Residential College, Plenary Session for Unflattening as Summer Common Read
2023 AERA Elliot Eisner SIG Business Meeting, Invited Speaker (online)
2023 National University of Singapore, Invited Speaker (online)
2022 Symposium on Comic Arts (online), Invited Speaker University of California Santa Cruz Cowell Residential College, Plenary Session for Unflattening as Summer Common Read
Feb 2022 Symposium of Comic Arts (online) Recording YouTube
Dec 2021 University of the Arts London, Being Here: MA UX Symposium, Recording
Nov 2021Camberwell College of the Arts, London, Invited Speaker
Oct 2021 Franklin & Marshall College, Invited Speaker
Oct 2021 UC Santa Cruz, Cowell Residential College – Freshmen Common Read Talk
Apr 2021 Transitions Comics Conference Keynote (UK)
Mar 2021 University of Pennsylvania, Panelist for Graphic Histories: Understanding the Middle East and Africa Through Comics
Feb 2021 Michigan State University, “Alternative” Milestones: Reimagining the Dissertation and Exploring Research Possibilities
Oct 2020 Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED), Keynote
Oct 2020 UC Santa Cruz, Cowell Residential College – Freshmen Common Read Talk
Jul 2020 Comic-Con @ Home, Teaching and Learning with Comics (online)
Feb 2020 Michigan State University Comics Forum Keynote
Mar 2020 Transitions Comics Conference Keynote (UK) & other UK events (Cancelled – COVID 19)
Oct 2019 UC Santa Cruz, Cowell Residential College – Freshmen Common Read Talk
Apr 2019 Emory University IDEAS WEEK
Oct 2018 Duke University, Neurodiversities Symposium
Oct 2018 UC Santa Cruz, Cowell Residential College – Freshmen Common Read Talk
Oct 2018 Wayne State University, Detroit
Oct 2018 National Centre for Swedish as a Second Language‘s annual symposium on Thinking through Visuals Stockholm University, Sweden (remote)
Sep 2018 UNICÓMIC XX: International Congress of Academic Studies on Comics @ University of Alicante
Jun 2018 University of Northern Colorado
Apr 2018 Chicago Humanities Festival
Mar 2018 Claremont Graduate University
Mar 2018 University of Virginia
2017
Nov 2017 International Comics Arts Forum (ICAF), Seattle
Oct 2017 Art&Design, University of Michigan
Oct 2017 College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
Oct 2017 UC Santa Cruz, Cowell Residential College – Freshmen Common Read Talk
Sep 2017 Temple, College of Liberal Arts
Sep 2017 Visual Studies @ Penn
Aug 23, 2017 4as Jornadas Internacionais de Histórias em Quadrinhos, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Jun 23, 2017 Oxford University
Jun 21, 2017 ReGenring Academic Writing & Assessment Conference, Nottingham, UK
Apr 2017 University of British Columbia
Mar 2017 Harvard metaLab
Mar 2017 Diablo Valley College
Feb 2017 JOLLE Conference Athens, GA – Keynote
Jan 2017 European School of Visual Arts, Angouléme!
Dec 9 Penn: Annenberg School of Communication
EXHIBITIONS
Dec 2021 Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, Ohio State, Power Lines: Comics & The Environment
Fall 2019 Global Museum, San Francisco State University, Climate Stories
Feb 2018 Diablo Valley College, CA “In Real Life” Group Show
Feb 2018 Bethany College, KS “Seeking” Group Show
Jan 2018 Modesto Junior College, CA “Pencils to Pixels: The Process of Comic Art” Group Show
Feb 2017 Teachers College, Columbia University, “Envisioning Pedagogical Inquiry, The Making of Arts Based Educational Research” NYC
Nov 2016 Davidson College, Solo Exhibition
Sep-Oct 2016 Denton Arts Council, Texas “Heroes in the Making: The Art of Comics Production”
Sep-Oct Moscow Polytechnic Museum: 2 person show with artist Gary Baseman
Nov-Dec 2015 Moscow Non/Fiction Book Fair Solo Exhibition
Oct-Nov 2015: Utrecht University, The Netherlands: Solo Exhibition, Educating Interdisciplinarians
Sept-Oct 2015 The Netherlands, Graphic Design Festival Breda: Public Library. (My page on GDFB)
PAST ENGAGEMENTS
November 9 Davidson College, NC exhibition/talk
Oct 21 U of Iowa – NextGen PhD Discussion Series
October 20 UW-Madison – Lynda Barry’s Image Lab workshop/talk
October 14 The Battery, SF
October 6 Penn State Lynd Ward Prize Talk (advance coverage)
Sept 24 Jaipur Lit Fest Boulder
Sep 9 San Francisco Art Institute
Jun 12 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Jun 24 Sketching in Practice (Vancouver) Keynote
May 2 2015 Comics & Contemporary Literacy Conference Werklund School of Education, U of Calgary
Mar 8-9 Tapestries (Denver) Keynote
Mar 10 Kent State College of Architecture
Mar 11-12 Miami University McComb Undergraduate Conference on Creative Writing: Graphic Narrative (Keynote)
Mar 17 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Feb 18-19 Duke Story Lab Video from the talk alongside my editor Sharmila Sen here
Feb 17 CCS Detroit, Toyota Lecture
Feb 6 Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (virtual)
Jan 11, 2016: NYC Department of Education @ NY Historical Society
December 4, 2015 Vanderbilt University
Nov 13-15, 2015 University of Oregon
Nov 3, 2015 Notre Dame
Oct, 2015 Texas Bookfest!
Oct 5, 2015 Berlin Anthropocene Kitchen: Science meets Comics Symposium
Sept 23, 2015: Harvard Graduate School of Education
Sept 22, 2015: College Unbound, RI
Sept 21, 2015 Teachers College, Columbia University book talk in the Russell Library.
Sept 20th, 2015: the Brooklyn Book Festival! Look and Listen: Stories of the Senses alongside Jessica Abel, moderated by Alex Blumberg Details here!
Aug 2015 University of Washington Simpson Center for the Humanities
April 2015 Rochester Institute of Technology
Nov 2014 Princeton University
Oct 2014 (Keynote) International Visual Literacy Association Conference (Toledo Museum of Art) Video Recording
July 2014 Microsoft Research exhibition talk (Video)
March 2013 Ohio State University Art Education (video)
October 2012 Oakland University