MAJOR RESEARCH and TEACHING INTERESTS    

Contemporary art since 1945, with a particular emphasis in global feminist art from 1970-present; late 20th and 21st century activist art, public and community-based art, fashion, and visual culture; female body image in art history and visual culture; television studies, with a focus on channels and programming geared towards women, youth, and specific targeted audiences; popular culture and its overlap with visual culture; spirituality and contemporary art; gender and identity studies, especially as corresponding with visual representation.

Books

Book-in-process: Contemporary Art on Television.

Fashioning Politics and Protests: New Visual Cultures of Feminism in the United States, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. More information here.

The Food Network Recipe: Essays on Cooking, Celebrity and Competition, Co-editor with Emily Witsell, McFarland Press 2021. More information here.

The Hallmark Channel: Essays on Faith, Race and Feminism, Co-editor with Emily Witsell, McFarland Press, 2020. More information here.

Female Body Image in Contemporary Art: Dieting, Eating Disorders, Self-Harm, and Fatness, Routledge, 2018. More information here.

ABC Family to Freeform TV: Essays on the Millennial-Focused Network and its Programs. Co-editor with Emily Witsell, McFarland Press, 2018. More information here.

The Lifetime Network: Essays on “Television for Women” in the 21st Century. Co-editor with Emily Witsell, McFarland Press, 2016. More information here.

Contributor and Editor of Deep in the Heart: Patrick Dougherty, on occasion of the 2015 installation project at Texas A&M University-Commerce, (Commerce, TX: Texas A&M University - Commerce, 2015), available here.

Journal Articles

“How to Lose Weight with Barbie,” The Fashion Studies Journal, “The Barbie Issue,” no. 14 (Summer 2024): here.

“Fashionable Flesh: Meat as Clothing,” Fashion, Style & Popular Culture 4, no. 1 (January 2017): 105-120, available here.

 “From That Girl to Girls: Rethinking Ann Marie/Marlo Thomas as a Feminist Icon” The Journal of American Culture 39, no. 3 (September 2016): 285-297, available here.

“Illustrating Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice," in Journal of Illustration, 1, no 2 (October 2014): 233-256, available here.

“‘It’s Not Okay”: FX’s Starved and Eating Disorders as Entertainment” in The Communication Review, special issue on Alternative Visions in Media edited by Kylo-Patrick Hart, 7, no 2 (2014): 233-244, available here.

Book Chapters

Invited Chapter, “Art and Beauty,” in A Cultural History of Beauty: Modern Age, edited By Paul R. Deslandes (London: Bloomsbury, Forthcoming 2024). 

“My red hair is a curse: Growing up redheaded with Anne of Green Gables”, Kindred Spirits: Reflections on our relationship with Anne of Green Gables, edited by Jess Carniel and Nike Sulway, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2021): 83-93. Available here.

“The Challenge of Dieting for the Sake of Art,” in American Shame: Stigma and the Body Politic, edited by Myra Mendible. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2016): 251-273. Available here.

“Confronting Art About Rape” in Exploring Bodies in Time and Space, edited by Loyola McLean, Lisa Stafford, and Mark Weeks (Freeland, UK: ID Press, 2014). Available here.

"LOVE at 55th and 6th Avenue," in Art and the Artist in Society, edited by José Jiménez-Justiniano & Elsa Luciano, (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2013). Available here.

Interviews

Interviewed by Shane O’Neill, for Shane O’Neill and Taylor Lorenz, “Viral Harris-Walz camo hats riff on red-state style, draw ire of NRA,” The Washington Post, August 7, 2024. PDF here.

Interviewed by Chance Solem-Pfeifer, for his podcast The Kick, episode “The Cutting Edge,” March 24, 2024.

Interviewed by Elle Rochford, for her podcast Proofing and Lies, episode “Fashion Tarts and T-shirts,” June 14, 2023.

Interviewed by Cynthia Bemis Abrams, for her podcast Advanced TV Herstory, episode: “Eating Disorder Movies: TV For and About Women,” May 9, 2019.

Interviewed by Roger Hearing about All is Well, a massively popular Chinese program for Business Matters, March 26, 2019, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172w0q7hlztg93, (begins at 44 minutes)

Interviewed by Hazel Cillis, for “Why Is It So Hard to Make a Movie About Eating Disorders?”, The Muse at Jezbel, July 14, 2015, here, archived as a PDF here.

Interviewed by Julie Wosk, for “The New Curvy Barbie Dolls: What They Tell Us About Being Overweight,” HuffPost Women, February 12, 2016, here.

Interviewed by Adriene Hill, for “How Do You Parody a Parody?” Marketplace radio and web story, June 4, 2015, available here.

Reviews and Shorter Publications

“Most Illogical Display of Love: The Cutting Edge (1992),” Avidly Reads, RomCom Superlatives, presented by the Los Angeles Review of Books, December 14, 2023, available here.

"Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion, Elizabeth L. Block (2021)" Review, Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty 14, no. 1 (June 2023), 123-126.

“In Good Company with Lauren Florence,” Art Focus Oklahoma 36, no. 4 (Fall 2021): 6-7, available here.

“Marilyn Artus: Celebrating Women’s Rights by Following the Path of the 19th Amendment,” Art Focus Oklahoma 35, no. 2 (Spring 2020): 22-23, available here.

Review: “Refocus: The Films Of Amy Heckerling Ed. Frances Smith and Timothy Shary. Edinburgh University Press, 2016" Journal of Popular Film and Television46, no. 2 (2018), available here. 

"Kiki Smith and Paper: The Body, the Muse and the Spirit," Art Focus Oklahoma, 32, no. 2 (Summer 2017): 4-5, available here.

“Profile – Adam Lanman,” Art Focus Oklahoma, 31, no. 2 (March/April 2016): 14, available here.

“Book Review – Nick Cave: Epitome, with contributions by Andrew Bolton, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Nato Thompson, and Nick Cave,” ArtDesk Magazine, 2, no. 4 (June 2015): 16.

“Preview – The First Fifty Years of Oklahoma Art,” Art Focus Oklahoma, 30, no. 2 (March/April 2015): 18, available here. 

“Preview - The New York Project: James Rosenquist,” Art Focus Oklahoma, 29, no. 6 (November/December 2014): 16-17, available here.

“Building Upon History: An Architectural Review of the East Building at the St. Louis Art Museum and the Piano Pavilion at the Kimbell Art Museum,” Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3, no. 3 (September 2014): 379-382, available here. 

“HALO AMOK! Wayne White at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art” in Museum and Curatorial Studies Review 2, no. 1 (Spring 2014), available here.

“Swearing and Stitching:The 21st Century Approach to a Traditional Craft” and “Participating in the Sculptures of Sarah Sze,” MP: An Online Feminist Journal Blog, May 4, 2012 and December 4, 2012, available here.

“Alice Neel,” entry in Women in American History: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Hasia Diner (New York: Facts on File, 2011).

“Architecture,” “Sculpture,” “Public art,”  “Mural art,” “Jenny Craig,” “Somercizing,” and “Scarsdale diet,” entries in Encyclopedia for Women in American Popular Culture. Edited by Gina Misiroglu, (New York: Facts on File, 2011).

Entries for Dinner Party Database, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center For Feminist Art, accessible at the Brooklyn Museum and online.

If interested in a particular publication not available above, please contact me.