MEW

Education

2001 Rutgers University, Ph.D.

1986 Yale University, B.A.

Employment

2007- University of Pennsylvania, Associate Professor of English (with tenure)

2022- Faculty, Cinemaand Media Studies Graduate Group

2022- Graduate Group Faculty, Francophone, Italian, and Germanics Studies

2015- Graduate GroupFaculty, Program in Comparative Literature

2014- Faculty, Program in Psychoanalytic Studies

2001- Graduate Group Faculty, History Department Graduate Group

2000-07 University ofPennsylvania, Assistant Professor of English

1999-2000 University of Pennsylvania, Lecturer, Department of English

1994-99 RutgersUniversity, Instructor, Department of Englishfellowships, prizes, and appointments (arts-related only) Elected artist member,InLiquid, 2024- Contributing Writer, Float: Photo Magazine,

2024-Elected member, International Council of Museums,

2024-Emily Harvey Foundation Residency, Venice, Italy,

June 24 – July 29, 2024Beckman Center Fellowship, Science History Institute, Philadelphia, April 1 – May 31, 2024 representation Artsy.com

Haze Gallery, Berlin

photography exhibitions and competitions

“Tela: Venezia 6,” “Open Theme” Exhibition, Decode Gallery, Tucson AZ,

February 2025 “Memento mori,” StreetExhibition, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, Ireland,

2-30November 2024 British Soldier Lichen,” Flash Gallery #19: The Macro World, Decagon Gallery, Brooklyn NY,

October 2024“Calle,” Flash Gallery #18: Urban Life, Decagon Gallery, Brooklyn NY,

August 2024 “Visitation,” Surreal Exhibition, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, Ireland,

August 3-31, 2024 “Visitation,” 7th Chania International Photo Festival, Chania, Crete,

July 22-26, 2024 “Little Wing,” Flash Gallery #17: Reflections, Decagon Gallery,

July 2024 “Monochroma 17,” Red Exhibition, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece,

June 14-25, 2024 “Memento mori,” Street Photography Exhibition, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece,

May 17- 29, 2024 “Canvas 4,” Moments of Color Exhibition, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece,

March 12-27, 2024 “Memento mori [monochrome],” Black and White Exhibition, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens,

Greece,

February 2024 “Dapple” and “Scream Me,” New Artist Exhibition, Boomer Gallery, London,

December 15-20, 2023 Bronze Award for “Revealing Nature” (“Bluet Tryst,” “Intimidation,” “Never a Moment’s,” “Postprandial,” and“Sovereign”), Better Photography Magazine,

November 2023 “Webbings [Jaunaille 1],” Honorable Mention, competition and group exhibit, “Patterns and Textures,” Ten Moir Gallery, online,

September 2023 “Crossing,” “Green Domain,” “Monochromata 17,” and “Postprandial,” Art Room Gallery online exhibit, “Green,”

August 2023 “Orangerie,” 6th Chania International Photo Festival, Chania, Crete,

August 3-9, 2023 “Monochromaticae, 1-9”[series], Biennale di Senigallia, Senigallia, Italy,

May 18-21, 2023 “Canvas 4,” group exhibit, Blank Wall Gallery,Athens, Greece,

April 21 – May 3, 2023 “Going Home,” group exhibit, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece,

January13-25, 2023

published photographs (both print and online)

“Tela 48,” Denver Quarterly [cover] 59.1, forthcoming, print

“Tela 99” and “Tela 127,” Blue Mesa Review 50 (December 2024), online and print “Tela 6,” “Tela 45,” “Tela 100,” “Tela 104,” Al-Tiba9 17 (December 2024), print “Lumens,” Salt Hill Journal 52 (October 2024),forthcoming, online and print

“Dapple” and “Going Home,” Atlantic Northeast 2.2 (Summer 2024), 17-18, online and print

“Bridge,” Amsterdam Quarterly 40 (2024), online

“Canvas 7,” “Cornered,” “Descent,” and “Low,” Al-Tiba9 15 (May 2024), 52-53, print

“Canvas 1,” “Canvas 2,” “Canvas 4,” “Canvas 6,” and “Canvas 7,” Hole in the Head Review 5.2

(May 2024)

“Old City,” L’Esprit Literary Review 4 (April 2024), online and print

“Jaunaille,” F-stop Magazine 123 (February-March, 2024), online

“Skylar,” “Pigweed Beetle,” “Green Heron,” and “Brown Pelican,” Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art 18 (December 2023), online

“Monochromata 1” and “Monochromata 2,” phoebe 52.2 (May 14, 2023), online “Interview: Max Cavitch,”Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art, January 8, 2023, online Contributor, iNaturalist, 2019-present, online

publications as author that include photographs of my own

“Feeling for the Inanimate,” Cutleaf (forthcoming, 2025), online

“Life on the Delaware; or, Comings and Goings in the Riparian Zone,” Politics/Letters Live, 1 April 2021, on-line

“A Solitary Executioner Clownfrog Wants You To Know She Exists,” The Journal of Wild Culture, 17 May 2020, on-line

publications as author—art related (all media)

“Whistler’s Mothers: Painters, Models, and Uncanny Arrangements,” forthcoming in American Imago (2025)

Review of Maxime Riché, Paradise, Float (16 December 2024), online

“Specters of Translation: Jacques Derrida, Safaa Fathy, and Nom à la mer,” Oxford Literary Review

43.2 (December 2021), 209-48

“Richard Nisbett’s Map of the World,” in Steven S. Powers, ed., The Design His Own [Works of Art and Americana,gallery catalog] (Winter 2021), 48-51, online

“Becky Suss’s Haunts” (exhibition review), Icaphila.org, 23 November 2015, online

“Curbside Quarantine: A Scene of Interspecies Mediality,” Postmodern Culture 22.2 (2012), online

Review of Matthieu Kassovitz (dir.), La haïne (DVD/Blu-Ray), The Criterion Collection (2012)

Slant (15 May 2012), online

Review of Jean Cocteau (dir.), Beauty and the Beast (DVD/Blu-Ray), The Criterion Collection (2001), Slant (16 July2011), online

“Michael Lucas and the Pornography of Migration,” Senses of Cinema 55 (July 2010), online

“Sex After Death: François Ozon’s Libidinal Invasions,” Screen 48.3 (2007), 313-26

“Interiority and Artifact: Death and Self-Inscription in Thomas Smith’s Self-Portrait,” Early American Literature 37.1 (2002),89-117

translations—art related (all media)

Introduction and translation, Paul Celan, “Schwarze Flocken” [poem], Politics/Letters Live (on-line), June 7, 2022

Introduction and translation, Jacques Derrida and Safaa Fathy, “Contre-jour,” PMLA 131.2 (2016), 540-550

Co-translation (with Noura Wedell and Paul Grant), Jean Louis Schefer, The Ordinary Man of

Cinema [L’Homme ordinaire du cinema] (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016)

lectures, papers, colloquia—art related (all media)

“Human-Canine Kinship in the Digital Era,” Mediating Kinship Workshop, Palgrave Macmillan,

New York, February 22, 2024, online

Invited speaker, “Behind the Scenes of Attachment,” Transdisciplinary Connections Forum on “Psychology,Psychoanalysis, and Literature: Lauren Berlant’s Affects,” Modern Language Association annual meeting, SanFrancisco, January 7, 2023, online

“No One Voice/Nom à la mer,” American Comparative Literature Association, New York

University, March 23, 2014

“Class and the Long Kill in Gus Van Sant’s Gerry,” Representing Social Classes in Film and

Television Conference, University of Rennes, October 11, 2013

“No One Voice: Nom à la mer,” Transnationalism: A Useful Category of Analysis?, University of

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, March 15-16, 2012

“No One Voice,” Cinema Studies Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, February 8, 2012

Invited lecture, “The Pornography of Migration: Sex, Cinema, and Unsettlement in Israel and Palestine,” RutgersUniversity, New Brunswick, February 1, 2010

Invited panelist, “Monuments and Memorials,” Penn Humanities Forum, Philadelphia, October 28,

2005

Invited lecture, “Interiority and Artifact: Death and Self-Inscription in Early America,” History of

Material Texts Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 2, 2001

media appearance

Commentator, Imprisoned Lightning: Emma Lazarus and the Statue of Liberty, dir. Andrea Simon (Arcadia Pictures, 2011),https://vimeo.com/96820577

With comments by novelists Teju Cole and Gish Jen, filmmaker Musa Syeed, Lazarus biographer Esther Schor, Rabbis SharonKleinbaum and Amichai Lau-Lavie, scholars Ed Berenson, Max Cavitch, and Imam Khalid Latif. Commissioned by the Museum ofJewish Heritage to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty and to explore the contemporary meaning of Lazarus’spoem, “The New Colossus.” Produced in collaboration with the National Park Service.