Conferences

Conferences (selected)
"Everyman Versus Superman: Jews, Comics, and Cleveland," The Jews of Cleveland. Western Reserve Historical Society. Cleveland, OH (March 2015)

"Moses Jacob Ezekiel's Religious Liberty (1876) and the Jewish American Experience," Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference. Baltimore, MD (December 2014)

Session chair, "Jewish Artists Negotiating the Creative Marketplace," Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference. Baltimore, MD (December 2014)

"Leon Uris, Mila 18, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in American Culture," Absorbing Encounters: Constructing American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades. University of Maryland. College Park, MD (March 2014)

"Still 'Ghetto Graduates' in the Twenty-First Century: Jews and the Exclusions in American Art," College Art Association 102nd Annual Conference. Chicago, IL (February 2014)

"Picturing 'The Holiest Thing': Joe Kubert's Children of the Warsaw Ghetto," Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference. Boston, MA (December 2013)

"Jews, Comics, and the Graphic Novel," AJS Working Group on Pedagogy roundtable on arts, media, and popular culture in Jewish Studies courses, Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference. Boston, MA (December 2013)

"Audrey Flack's Jewishness," Jewish Arts and Identity in the Contemporary World conference. Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, NY (May 2013)

"The Jewish Graphic Novel: Storytelling in Image and Word," Future of Jewish Storytelling conference. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (March 2013)

Discussant, "Jewish Art: Reevaluation, Recovery, Reclamation, Respect," College Art Association 100th Annual Conference. Los Angeles, CA (February 2012)

"Jewish Art and Jewish Studies," AJS Working Group on Pedagogy roundtable on arts, media, and popular culture in Jewish Studies courses, Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference. Boston, MA (December 2010)

Session chair, "Negotiating Jewishness in American Art and Culture," Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference. Boston, MA (December 2010)

"George Segal and the Book of Genesis," Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference. Los Angeles, CA (December 2009)

"Jewish American Artists and the Formation of the American Art Canon," College Art Association 96th Annual Conference. Dallas, TX (February 2008)

"Navigating the Worldly and the Spiritual: Jewish American Artists on Judaism and their Art," 2nd Crossing Over: Learning to Navigate the Borderlands of Intercultural Identity Conference. Cleveland State University. Cleveland, OH (October 2007)

"Imaging the Book: Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America," Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference. San Diego, CA (December 2006)

"The Fockerized Jew?: Questioning Jewishness as Cool in American Popular Entertainment," American Academy of Religion Annual Conference. Philadelphia, PA (November 2005)

Session chair, "Identity and Multiple Boundaries in Literature," Crossing Over: Learning to Navigate the Borderlands of Intercultural Identity Conference. Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH (October 2005)

"Midrash, Modernity, and the Recollection of Ancient Archetypes: Jack Levine's Biblical Paintings," 14th World Congress of Jewish Studies. Jerusalem, Israel (August 2005)

"Midrash and the Jewish American Experience in Jack Levine's Planning Solomon's Temple," Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference. Chicago, IL (December 2004)

"Caricature as Criticism: Alexander Z. Kruse's Self-Portrait of an Art Critic," Southeastern College Art Conference. Jacksonville, FL (October 2004)

"The 'True' Story: Life Magazine, Horace Bristol, and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath," Southeastern College Art Conference. Raleigh, NC (October 2003)

"The Artist's Personal Manner: Raphael Soyer, Dancing Lesson, and Jewish Art," College Art Association 90th Annual Conference. Philadelphia, PA (February 2002)

"Raphael Soyer: The Ambiguous New York Painter," Southeastern College Art Conference. Columbia, SC (October 2001)

"Raphael Soyer, Jewish Identity, and Self-Portraiture," Annual Meeting of the American Culture Association. New Orleans, LA (April 2000)

"Mapping the Other: Bernard Picart's Etchings of Jewish Marriage Rites," Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies. Durham, NC (December 1997)

"The Jew as 'Woman' in Rembrandt's Middle Period," Feminist Navigations, Mergers and Takeovers? Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium. Chapel Hill, NC (March 1997)