Scott A. Sherer

Department of Art and , The University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249 [email protected]; Office: 210-458-4402; Cell: 210-241-3937; Fax: 210-458-4356

Education Ph.D., 2002, Studies in Discourse and Society, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Dissertation: The Aesthetics of Cruel Embodiment. Research in art, architectural, and film history, theory, and criticism; cultural studies and comparative literature; gender and sexuality studies. Research focused on the intersections of cultural/political theory with visual and performative representations of embodiment and gender and sexual identity.

M.A., 1993, Art History, University of Kentucky, Lexington. Thesis: The Politics of Photography: Garry Winogrand Knows? & Shows? which “Women are Beautiful.” Research in art history, emphasizing feminist perspectives in criticism and the study of artists’ roles in society, museum training, American history and poetry, printmaking and artist’s bookmaking.

B.A., 1987, Architecture, , New Haven, Connecticut. Thesis project exhibit, 1987. Drawing, design, and painting in group exhibits, 1984-87. Course work in architecture, fine arts, urban studies, social sciences, languages, and literatures.

The Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, England, 1986. Course work in architecture, art history, and photography.

Languages Spanish, reading, writing, and conversational fluency. French, reading, writing, and conversational fluency.

Research Interests Modern and postmodern visual art, performance, literature, and intellectual history; Curatorial practices; Histories of civil rights, sexuality, and gender; Theoretical and lived constructions of space; Historiography and the social and cultural roles of institutions

Teaching Experience § Art History Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at San Antonio, Fall 2008-present. “Embodiment and Representation,” graduate section, Spring 2013, Spring 2011 “Contemporary Art,” Fall 2012 “Survey of Modern Art,” Summer 2012, Summer 2011 “Seminar in Research Methods and Writing,” graduate section, Fall 2011, 2010, Fall 2009 and Fall 2008. “Cultural Difference and Postmodern Critique,” graduate section, Spring 2010. “Art Gallery and Museum Internship,” range of undergraduate and graduate students, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008. “Primitivism to Globalism,” graduate section, Spring 2009. Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at San Antonio, Fall 2006-Summer 2008. “Critical Theory in the Arts,” graduate section, Spring 2008, Spring 2007. “Gender and Sexuality in the Arts,” Fall 2007. “Art Gallery and Museum Practices,” graduate section, Fall 2007. “Art Gallery and Museum Internship,” undergraduate and graduate sections, Fall 2007. Assistant Professor (tenure track), Division of Art History, School of Art, Kent State University, Fall 2001-Summer 2006 “Late Modern Art since 1940,”one (u/g) combined section, Summer 2006; graduate section, Spring 2006; two undergraduate/graduate (u/g) combined sections, Spring 2006, Fall 2005; one (u/g) combined section, Summer 2005, two (u/g) combined sections, Spring 2005, Fall 2004; undergraduate section Sherer, 2

Kent-Stark, Spring 2004; two (u/g) combined sections, Fall 2003, Spring 2003, Fall 2002; separate u and g sections, Spring 2002; two (u/g) combined sections, Fall 2001. “Critical Issues in Contemporary Art,” graduate seminar, Fall 2005. “Individual Investigation,” individual studies advisor, four graduate students, Spring 2006; five undergraduate students Fall 2005; one graduate student and one undergraduate Spring 2005; one graduate student Fall 2004; one graduate student Summer 2004; three graduate students, Fall 2003; one undergraduate Fall 2002; two undergraduates Spring 2003. “Women’s Studies Senior Project,” advisor, Fall 2005. “Smithson’s Legacies in Theory and Practice,” undergraduate/graduate workshop integrating art history and studio practice, team taught with Don Harvey, Spring 2005. “Film and Photography in Western Art,” undergraduate/graduate combined sections, Spring 2005. “Gender and Sexuality in the Arts,” undergraduate/graduate combined section, Fall 2004 and Fall 2002. “Late Modern Art since 1940,” graduate seminar, Fall 2003. “Critical Theory in Visual Culture,” u/g advanced workshop-seminar, Spring 2003. “Modern and Contemporary Art Workshop, New York City,” collaboration with Professors Isabel Farnsworth and Paul O’Keeffe, Spring 2003. “Honors Project: Critical Theory and Subjectivity,” individual Honors Project advisor, Spring 2003. “Learning from an Exhibition: My Reality, Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation,” workshop series in collaboration with Dr. Lisa Safford, Hiram College, and Dr. Kevin Concannon, University of Akron, and staff of Akron Art Museum; Akron Art Museum, Fall 2002. “History of Photography,” u/g combined section, Spring 2002. “Body Art: Postmodernity, Embodiment, and Representation,” u/g combined section, Fall 2001.

Instructor, Department of Art, University of Kentucky, Lexington “Modern Art II: Twentieth Century Art,” Summer 1997. “Renaissance Through Modern Art,” Summers 1994, 1995, 1996.

§ Undergraduate Studies Assistant Professor (tenure track), Division of Art History, School of Art, Kent State University, Fall 2001-2006 “University Orientation,” Fall 2004.

§ Cultural Studies Visiting Assistant Professor, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, MFA Program, Maine College of Art, Portland “Philosophies of Embodiment,” Summer 2001. Instructor, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota “Gay Men and Homophobia in American Culture,” Spring 1996, Fall 2000, Spring 2001. “Sexualities: From Perversity to Diversity,” Spring 1998, Fall 2000. “Reading Culture: Theory and Practice,” Fall 1999. “Discourse and Society I: Reading Culture,” Fall 1995, Spring 1996. “Discourse and Society,” Winter and Spring 1995. Instructor, Honors Division, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota “Sexuality and Cultural Power: Queer Theory and Practice in Everyday Life,” Winter 1996. Research Assistant, “Introduction to Visual Cultures,” Prof. John Archer, University of Minnesota, Summer 1999. Research Assistant, “Reframing Suburbia,” McKnight Faculty Fellowship, Professors John Archer, CSCL, and Katherine Solomonson, Department of Architecture, University of Minnesota, Fall 1997, Winter 1998. Research Assistant, “Enlightenment History of Sexuality,” Graduate School Faculty Research Grant, Professor Gary Thomas, University of Minnesota, Fall 1994. Teaching Assistant, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota “Cinema and Ideology,” Spring 1994. “The Body and the Politics of Representation,” Winter 1994. “Gay Men and Homophobia in the Modern West,” Fall 1993.

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§ English Instructor, Department of English, University of Kentucky, Lexington “Intermediate Writing,” Spring 1997. “Writing II,” Spring 1997. “Writing I,” (two sections), Fall 1996.

Curatorial and Arts Programming Experience Director, UTSA Art Gallery and Satellite Space, Department of Art and Art History, UTSA, Fall 2006-present.

§ Exhibitions 31K Portraits for Peace: Diego Huerta curated by Claudia Zapata, exhibition manager, Satellite Space, Blue Star Complex, San Antonio, September, 2012. Alien Contexts: Mexico and the US, exhibition curator, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, September-November, 2012. New Art/Arte Nuevo: San Antonio 2012, juried exhibition coordinator, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, June- August, 2012. Sky Patterson: Swimming Pool, exhibition curator, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, May-August, 2012. Margins, curated by Larry Graeber, exhibition manager, UTSA Art Gallery, June-August, 2011. XIANG Yaping: The Traditional and the Modern in Chinese Landscape Painting, exhibition curator, UTSA Art Gallery, May 2011. Steve Reynolds: Serial Investigations in Sculpture curated by Catherine Lee, exhibition manager, UTSA Art Gallery, January-February, 2011. Breakthrough! 20 Years After German Unification: Critical Perspectives of Berlin Artists, exhibition manager, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, October-November 2010. Today’s China: Images Speak to the World, exhibition manager, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, September- October, 2010. New Art/Arte Nuevo: San Antonio 2010, juried exhibition coordinator, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, June- August, 2010. The Tradition of Trabajo Rústico: Fantasies in Cement, exhibition co-curator with Patsy Pittman Light and Kent Rush, Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, May 2010. Globalization and War—The Aftermath: Works by Malaquias Montoya, exhibition manager, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, March-April, 2010 Intense Concentration, exhibition curator, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, January-February, 2010. Far Places Close: Photographic Essays of South Asia, exhibition curator, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, September-October, 2009. Building Vernacular Imaginations: Paho Mann and Libby Rowe, exhibition curator, Satellite Space, Blue Star Complex, San Antonio, September 2009. Benito Huerta: Shock & Awe, exhibition curator, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, July-August, 2009. Apparatus, exhibition curator, Satellite Space, Blue Star Complex, March 2009. The Culture Series, exhibition curator, in association with Marcia Gygli King: Forty Years, a collaboration with the San Antonio Museum of Art and the Southwest School of Art & Craft, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, January-March 2009. Figure and Illusion: Recent Work by Susan kae Grant and Kenda North, exhibition curator, Satellite Space, Blue Star Complex, San Antonio, September 2008. New Art/Arte Nuevo: San Antonio 2008, juried exhibition coordinator, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, July- August, 2008. The Lam Collection of Aboriginal Art, exhibition curator, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, January-March, 2008. Spiritual Dreaming, exhibition curator, Satellite Space, Blue Star Complex, San Antonio, January-February, 2008. Still Life in New Time, exhibition curator, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, August-September, 2007. Play and Re-Play, exhibition curator, Satellite Space, Blue Star Complex, San Antonio, June-July, 2007. Texas Uprising II, juried exhibition of contemporary work by Texas sculptors, co-juried and co-organized with Bill FitzGibbons, Executive Director, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, multiple venues throughout San Antonio, June-August, 2007. Sherer, 4

New Artists in the Mix Machine, exhibition co-curator with Liz Maugans, Heights Arts Gallery, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, April 22-June 2, 2006. Refereed. Pressing On: Alumni Artists Create Master Printshops, exhibition co-curator with Michael Loderstedt and Noel Reifel, Kent State University School of Art Gallery, September 6-October 1, 2005. Refereed. Once Familiar, exhibition curator, The Sky Lounge Exhibition series, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, April 15-August 14, 2005. Refereed. Structures of Experience: an exhibition in response to at Kent State University, exhibition curator, Kent State University School of Art Gallery, March 28-April 15, 2005. Refereed. Experience and Exchange: Documentary as the Art of Collaboration, exhibition curator, Kent State University School of Art Gallery, October 2-21, 2003. Refereed.

§ Programs Co-Coordinator of programming with Angelika Jansen-Brown and panel facilitator, Breakthrough! 20 Years After German Unification: Critical Perspectives of Berlin Artists, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, October 2010. Co-Coordinator of programming with with Patsy Pittman Light and Kent Rush and the San Antonio Conservation Society, Trabajo Rústico: Fantasies in Cement, Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, May 2010. Co-Coordinator, Rooms with a View, COLFA Advisory Committee, UTSA, 2007-2008. Co-Coordinator, The Business of Contemporary Printmaking, workshop, (with Michael Loderstedt and Noel Reifel, KSU Art), School of Art, Kent State University, September 8-9, 2005. Coordinator, Artist-in-residence earthworks project, Steven Siegel, tilt 2005, April 7-15, 2005. Co-Coordinator, Acquiring its Own History: a symposium on Smithson’s Partially Buried Woodshed after 35 Years, (with Christine Havice, KSU Art), School of Art, Kent State University, April 7-8, 14-15, 2005. General programming, publicity, and coordination of lectures with visiting scholars Robert Hobbs, Virginia Commonwealth University and Suzaan Boettger, Bergen Community College. Co-Facilitator, Visiting Artist Lecture (with Kathleen Browne, KSU Crafts), Keith Lewis, Central Washington University, “Bawdy Bauble: Grandma's Brooch as Sexual Emissary,” November 2004. Facilitator, Visiting Scholar Lecture, Kevin Concannon, University of Akron, “'s Cut Piece (1964): Bad Girl or Buddha?,” November 2004. Coordinator, “Documentary in Theory and Practice,” workshop, School of Art, Kent State University, October 21- 22, 2003.

§ Reviews Steve Bennett, “Little-known monuments haunt U.S.-Mexico border,” San Antonio Express-News (October 12, 2012). Paul Flahive, “New Exhibits Opening Around San Antonio,” The Newsmaker Hour, (September 9, 2012) http://www.tpr.org/programs/newsmakerhour.html. Emily Messer, “Patterson's swimmers may be out of their depth.” San Antonio Express-News (July 13, 2012). Kristina Jackson, “‘New Art’ reflects the times,” San Antonio Express-News (July 2, 2012). Steve Bennett, “Collection marks the fall of the Berlin Wall,” San Antonio Express-News (November 5, 2010). Vagnie Bradley, “Breakthrough! Art Exhibit presents artwork from former East Germany,” The Paisano (November 2, 2010): P5. Jennifer Cisneros, “Confucius Institute: A Site to See,” The Paisano (September 21, 2010): P8. Steve Bennett, “A Breakthrough view of China,” San Antonio Express-News (September 19, 2010): 8K. Steve Bennett, “Texas artists stretch boundaries in UTSA biennial exhibit (July 18, 2010): 1K. Steve Bennett, “Drawings as “finished” work,” San Antonio Express-News (January 29, 2010). Elda Silva and Steve Bennett, “The Best of 2009,” San Antonio Express-News (December 27, 2009): 1G. Elaine Wolff, “Mind of the Beholder,” San Antonio Current (September 23, 2009): 27. Steve Bennett, “Childlike drawings of home inspire photographer, San Antonio Express-News (September 13, 2009): 5G. Elda Silva, “Beauty Marks,” San Antonio Express-News (July 26, 2009): G1. Steve Rockwell, “Marcia Gygli King: Forty Years,” Dart International 12.1 (Spring/Summer 2009). Dan R. Goddard, “Strangely Familiar,” San Antonio Express-News (February 15, 2009): G1. Jordan Breal, “Progressive Art,” Texas Monthly (February 2009): 35. Sherer, 5

Lesli Hicks, “Coming Home,” San Antonio Express-News (January 19, 2009). Dan R. Goddard, “Catching Light at UTSA showcases non-toxic printmaking,” San Antonio Express-News (November 12, 2008). Dan R. Goddard, “Art Guys fly to ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ at UTSA gallery,” San Antonio Express-News (September 28, 2008). Sarah Fisch, “Shadow Puppets and Water Music,” San Antonio Current (September 17, 2008). Dan R. Goddard, “Art exhibit highlights South, West Texas,” San Antonio Express-News (July 25, 2008): 4F. Dan R. Goddard, “Ancient-yet-modern art enchants collector,” San Antonio Express-News (Feb.10, 2008): 1H. Dan R. Goddard, “UTSA exhibit examines Yoko Ono, John Lennon’s ‘Year of Peace,’” San Antonio Express-News ( October 21, 2007): 13J. Elaine Wolff, “Double jeopardy,” San Antonio Current, (September 26-October 2, 2007): 23-25. Dan R. Goddard, “Gallery Stroll,” (review of Play and Re-Play), San Antonio Express-News (July 15, 2007). Dan R. Goddard, “The State of Sculpture,” San Antonio Express-News (June 20, 2007): 1G. Dan R. Goddard, “Indoor sculptures often fool the eye,” San Antonio Express-News (June 20, 2007): 10G. Dan Tranberg, “Powerful Displays by new talent offers insightful views of society,” The Plain Dealer (May 12, 2006): T30. Dorothy Shinn, “Kent alumni skill on display,” Akron Beacon-Journal (September 11, 2005): E5. Dan Tranberg, “Things are looking up as artists create bright spots in a gray city,” The Plain Dealer (May 6, 2005): 44. Zachary Lewis, “Once Familiar,” Cleveland Scene, (April 20, 2005). Julie Grant, “After 35 years, Debate Over ‘Partially Buried Woodshed’ Continues,” public radio broadcast, WKSU, Kent, Ohio, 6 April 2005. Jason Prufer, “Shed His Grace: The strange history of Kent’s Partially Buried Woodshed,” The Free Times 12.50 (April 6-12): 58. Steven Harbaugh, “Inspiration Unearthed,” photos by Ken Love, Akron Beacon-Journal (March 31, 2005): E1-2.

Jackie Mantey, “Artists discuss their paths to success at meeting,” Daily Kent Stater (September 9, 2005): 8. Jennifer Zemanek, “Students, artists add a new angle to Art Building,” Daily Kent Stater (April 18, 2005): A3. Jennifer Zemanek, “Smithson’s art draws crowd, artists to gallery,” Daily Kent Stater (April 8, 2005): 7. Jennifer Zemanek, “A sculpture designed to decay,” Daily Kent Stater (April 7, 2005): 7.

Awards and Grants § Art History and Exhibition National Endowment for the Humanities, “NEH on the Road,” for support for For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Washington, DC, 2011 for 2014 exhibition. Arts Create Grant, Texas Commission on the Arts, Austin, 2011-13. Valero Community Grant, for sponsorship of Society for Photographic Education South Central Regional Exhibition and Conference, 2011. Arts Create Grant, Texas Commission on the Arts, Austin, 2009-11. Exhibition Support Grant, Breakthrough! 20 Years After German Unification: Critical Perspectives of Berlin Artists, Office of Cultural Affairs, City of San Antonio, Fall 2010. Arts Respond Grant, Texas Commission on the Arts, Austin, 2009-2010. Exhibition Support Grant, The Tradition of Trabajo Rústico: Fantasies in Cement, Office of Cultural Affairs, City of San Antonio, awarded through San Antonio Public Library Foundation, Spring 2010. Core Support Grant, Texas Commission on the Arts, Austin, 2008-2009. Endowment Grant, Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992, San Antonio, Spring 2008. Community Grant, “New Art/Arte Nuevo,” Target Corporation, San Antonio, Fall 2007. Community Education Grant, “New Art/Arte Nuevo,” Ford Salute to Education, Ford Motor Company, San Antonio, Spring 2007. Grant Development Award, “Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art,” Office of Sponsored Programs, UTSA, Spring 2007. Sherer, 6

Academic Year Research and Creative Activity Appointment, “A Critical Study of Post-World War II American and French Abstract Art,” Division of Research, Graduate Studies, and Technology Transfer, Kent State University, Spring 2004 ($3,000). Faculty-Undergraduate Research/Creative Activity Award, “Modern Art in a Global Culture,” College of Fine and Professional Arts, KSU, Spring 2003. Libraries and Media Research Collection Award, KSU, Spring 2002 ($2,600).

§ Pedagogy Teaching Development Grant, University Teaching Council, KSU, Spring 2006. Moulton Scholars Program, Faculty Professional Development Center, Spring 2006 ($3000), declined Technology Grant, Faculty Professional Development Center, KSU, Spring 2006. Workshop Award, “Workshop: The Business of Contemporary Printmaking,” University Teaching Council, KSU, Summer 2005. Teaching and Learning Support Grant, conference presentation, University Teaching Council, KSU, Spring 2004. Research and Travel Grant, Faculty Professional Development Center, KSU, Spring 2004. ($600) Teaching Development Support Grant, “Documentary in Theory and Practice,” (with visiting artist Carolyn McGrath, Princeton, N.J.), University Teaching Council, KSU, Fall 2003. Individual Project Grant, “Linking the Future to the Present: Technologically Empowering Our Students,” Research Center for Educational Technology, College and Graduate School of Education, KSU, Spring 2003. Summer Teaching Development Award, “Interdisciplinary Content in Discipline-Based Courses: Creating a Model for Interdisciplinary Teaching,” (with Sarah Wilcox, KSU Sociology), University Teaching Council, KSU, Summer 2002. Teaching Development Support Grant, University Teaching Council, KSU, Spring 2002 ($1,000).

§ Cultural Studies Dissertation Fellowship, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, Spring 2000. Harold Leonard Memorial Film Study Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, 1998-99. Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Center for European Studies, Institute of International Studies, University of Minnesota, Summer 1998. Lifson Scholarship, Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid, University of Minnesota, 1996-97, 1997-98. Dissertation Award, Minnesota Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Educational Fund, Spring 1996. Projects Grant, Small Grants Program, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Programs Office, Office of Human Resources, University of Minnesota, Winter 1996, Spring 1996. Department Tuition Fellowship, CSCL, University of Minnesota, Fall 1993; Winter, Spring, and Fall 1994; Fall, Winter, and Summer 1996; Summer 1999; Spring 2002. Department Block Grant, CSCL, University of Minnesota, 1993-94, 1994-95.

Publication § Refereed “Drawing and Disorder: The Work of Heimo Wallner,” in Zwischen Nordlicht und Alpenglühen (Between Northern and Alpenglow), exhibition catalogue, (Brunsbüttel and Lübeck, Germany: City Gallery in the Elbe Forum Brunsbüttel and the Culture Forum Castle Monastery Lübeck, May 2009). Invited/Unrefereed. “Afterword,” in Reni Gower, The Divas and Iron Chefs of Encaustic, exhibition catalogue, (Richmond, Va.: Virginia Commonwealth University, November 2007). Invited/Unrefereed. “Instruction, Imagination, Participation: Learning from Yoko Ono,” in Kevin Concannon, ed., Yoko Ono Imagine Peace Featuring John and Yoko’s Year of Peace, exhibition catalogue, (Akron, Ohio: Myers School of Art, University of Akron, July 2007). Invited/Unrefereed. “Remains: Smithson’s Partially Buried Woodshed after 35 Years,” Ephemera, special issue Thresholds 31 (Spring 2006): 56-63; [ISSN: 1091-711X], Refereed. “Pausing in a Postmodern World,” catalogue essay, Katarina Wong: Still Center, Spaces World Artists Program, Spaces Gallery, 2006. Refereed. Sherer, 7

“Imagination and Cultural Criticism in the Work of David Wojnarowicz,” Human Creation Between Reality and Illusion, special issue Analecta Husserliana LXXXII, (Lancaster, England: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005): 233-242; [ISBN: 1-4020-3577-2]. Refereed. “Robert Hughes and the Art of Engagement,” The NCECA Journal XXVI (2005): 3-4; [ISSN 0739-1544]. Refereed. “Brassaï,” Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, ed. Lynne Warren, (New York: Routledge, 2005): 162-166; [ISBN: 1-5795-8393-8], Refereed. “Larry Clark,” Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, ed. Lynne Warren, (New York: Routledge, 2005): 284-286; [ISBN: 1-5795-8393-8], Refereed. “Critical Thinking and Practice in Art History and Visual Culture Studies,” Enhancing Curricula: Towards the Scholarship of Teaching in Art, Design and Communication, ed. Allan Davies, (London: Centre for Learning and Teaching in Art and Design, 2004): 391-404; [ISBN: 0-9541439-3-0]. Refereed.

§ Unrefereed New Art/Arte Nuevo: San Antonio 2012, exhibition catalogue, (San Antonio: UTSA Art Gallery, June 2012). Unrefereed. “Dam the Torpedoes,” in Dam the Torpedoes: Gregory Elliott 2011, exhibition catalogue (San Antonio: Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, in press, 2012). Unrefereed. “Postmodern Storytelling: Images that Start a Story,” essay in exhibition catalogue of Spinning Yarns: Photographic Storytelling, curated by Anne Leighton Massoni and Libby Rowe (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University, 2011). Unrefereed. Margins, editor, exhibition catalogue, curated by Larry Graeber, exhibition manager, UTSA Art Gallery, June- August, 2011. “Essay” with Adriana Miramontes Olivas, Signs of Change, curated by Dennis Olsen, (San Antonio: UTSA Art Gallery, March 2011). Unrefereed. Signs of Change, editor, exhibition catalogue, curated by Dennis Olsen, (San Antonio: UTSA Art Gallery, March 2011). Unrefereed. Steve Reynolds: Serial Investigations in Sculpture, editor, exhibition catalogue, curated by Catherine Lee, (San Antonio, UTSA Art Gallery, January 2011). Unrefereed. New Art/Arte Nuevo: San Antonio 2010, exhibition catalogue, (San Antonio: UTSA Art Gallery, June 2010). Unrefereed. Intense Concentration, exhibition catalogue, (San Antonio: UTSA Art Gallery, January 2010). Unrefereed. Relative Distances, editor, exhibition catalogue, (San Antonio: UTSA Art Gallery, January 2010). Unrefereed. Apparatus, exhibition catalogue, San Antonio: UTSA Department of Art and Art History, March 2009. Unrefereed. Marcia Gygli King: Forty Years, editor, exhibition catalogue, (San Antonio: UTSA Department of Art and Art History, San Antonio Museum of Art, Southwest School of Art & Craft, January 2009). Unrefereed. “The Culture of Comfort and Discomfort,” in Marcia Gygli King: Forty Years, exhibition catalogue, (San Antonio: UTSA Department of Art and Art History, San Antonio Museum of Art, Southwest School of Art & Craft, January 2009). Unrefereed. All Ladies Video Review, editor, exhibition catalogue, (San Antonio: UTSA Department of Art and Art History, January 2009). Unrefereed. Sana Sana Colita de Rana: Artists Influenced by La Cultura, exhibition catalogue, (San Antonio: UTSA Department of Art and Art History, October 2008). Unrefereed. New Art/Arte Nuevo: San Antonio 2008, exhibition catalogue, (San Antonio: UTSA Department of Art and Art History, July 2008). Unrefereed. The Lam Collection of Aboriginal Art, exhibition catalogue, (San Antonio: UTSA Department of Art and Art History, January 2008). Unrefereed. Spiritual Dreaming, exhibition catalogue, (San Antonio: UTSA Department of Art and Art History, January 2008). Unrefereed. Still Life in New Time, exhibition catalogue, (San Antonio: UTSA Department of Art and Art History, August 2007). Unrefereed. Play and Re-Play, exhibition catalogue, (San Antonio: UTSA Department of Art and Art History, June 2007). Unrefereed. Sherer, 8

Marlene Alt: home/land: moths to the flame, exhibition catalogue, (San Antonio: UTSA Department of Art and Art History, January 2007). Unrefereed. Steven Siegel: tilt 2005, project brochure, (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University School of Art, April 2005). Unrefereed. Structures of Experience: an exhibition in response to Robert Smithson at Kent State University, exhibition catalogue, (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University School of Art Gallery, March 2005). Unrefereed. Experience and Exchange: Documentary as the Art of Collaboration, exhibition catalogue, (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University School of Art Gallery, October 2003). Unrefereed.

Exhibition Collaborative Efforts, mixed media collaboration with Dylan Collins, Gallery West, Cuyahoga Community College, Parma, Ohio, January 17-February 18, 2006.

Presentations § Scholarly Conference Presentations “Beyond Censorship,” Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio, March 2013. “Locations and Dislocations: Rolando Briseño’s Celestial Tablescapes,” Texas Association of Schools of Art, Annual Conference, San Antonio, October 2011. Invited. “Representation as Lived Experience,” Mid-America College Art Association Conference, Detroit, Michigan, October 2011. Refereed. “From the Infinitesimal to the Infinite: Rolando Briseño’s Celestial Tablescapes,” International Society for Phenomenology, Fine Arts, and Aesthetics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 2012. Refereed. “Portraiture Between Discourse and Fantasy,” Southeastern College Art Conference, Richmond, Virginia, accepted for October 2010. (could not attend). Refereed. Session Chair and Respondent, “Current Models for Integrating Research into Teaching,” College Art Association, Chicago, February 2010. “Narrative and Fractured Fantasy,” Southeastern College Art Conference, Mobile, Alabama, October 2009. Refereed. “Technological Sense and the Multi-Dimensional Viewer: Possibilities of and Pressures on Contemporary Art,” Mid-America College Art Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 2008. Invited. “Aboriginal Traditions in Global Contexts,” Southeastern College Art Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 2008. Refereed. “Spectacular Objects,” Southeastern College Art Conference, Charleston, West Virginia, October 2007. Refereed. “Cinematic Time in Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle,” American Comparative Literature Association, Puebla, México, April 2007. Refereed. “Artaud’s Portraits,” Southeastern College Art Conference and Mid-America College Art Association, joint conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, October 2006. “‘They took the wood and left some words’: Robert Smithson’s Partially Buried Woodshed after 35 Years,” American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, March 2006. Refereed. “Imagination and Cultural Criticism in the Work of David Wojnarowicz,” International Society for Phenomenology, Fine Arts, and Aesthetics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 2004. Refereed. “Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida and Language and Perception in Contemporary Photography,” Midwest Art History Society, Notre Dame, Indiana, April 2004. Refereed. “The Disruptive Erotics of Vision: Jean Genet on Rembrandt’s Bodies,” Genet in Performance Symposium, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, October 2003. Refereed. “Discourses of Disintegration in the Work of David Wojnarowicz,” Midwest Art History Society, Milwaukee, April 2002. Refereed. “Vision and Intersubjectivity,” Subjects of Culture Conference, Program in Visual and Cultural Studies and the Department of English Literature, University of Rochester, March 1999. Refereed. “‘My solitude knows your own’: The Body as Cultural Criticism in Giacometti and Genet,” Bodies and Boundaries Symposium, Department of Art History, University of Arizona, February 1999. Refereed. Sherer, 9

“Embodiment and Male Subjectivity: Film and Cultural Criticism,” Sex on the Edge Symposium, Concordia Sexuality Research Project, Concordia University, Montréal, November 1998. Refereed. “Introduction to the Study of Gender and Sexuality,” lecture/seminar and “The Crisis of Identity Politics in the Era of AIDS,” closing lecture, Youth HIV Prevention Conference, University of Kentucky, April 1996. Refereed and Unrefereed. “Demonstrating Difference in Space,” Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 1994. Refereed.

§ Scholarly Presentations other than Conferences “Presentación del libro,” Moctezuma’s Table: Rolando Briseño’s Chicano and Mexicano Tablescapes, public lecture and discussion, UTSA Downtwon Campus, November 2010. “Creativity and Representation in The Art Guys,” public lecture with UTSA chapter of Sociology of the Arts, Culture, and Communication, October 2008. “Contemporary and Traditional Aboriginal Art,” invited lecture, Texas A & M University, Corpus Christi, September 2008. “Sexuality and Subjectivity in Contemporary Photography,” invited lecture, University of Akron, April 2005. “Once Familiar,” curator and artists’ talk, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, April 2005. “Embodiment and Abstraction,” Problems and Complexities in , invited lecture and panelist, Space Gallery, Portland, Maine, July 2004. “Sexuality and Contemporary Art,” invited lecture, Department of Sociology, KSU, November 2002. “Anime: Art and Global Commodity Culture,” invited public lecture and workshop presentation, “Learning from an Exhibition: My Reality, Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation,” Akron Art Museum, October 2002. “Contemporary Art, 1969-Present,” docent training lecture, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, March 2001. “The Difficulty of Difference: Warhol’s Complex Identity in a Mass Culture,” invited public lecture, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, October 1999. “Sexual Dissidence in Public Space,” invited public lecture, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, April 1995. § Pedagogy Conference Presentations “Critical Thinking and Practice in Art History and Visual Culture Studies,” Centre for Learning and Teaching in Art and Design, Barcelona, Spain, May 2004. Refereed. “Enhancing Students’ Learning: Using Critical Thinking From the Perspective of Different Disciplines,” interactive session presentation with nine colleagues from the KSU Junior Faculty Learning Community, Lily Conference on College and University Teaching-West, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, March 2003. Refereed. “Interdisciplinary Content in Discipline Based Courses: Teaching Gender and Sexuality in Sociology and Art History,” poster session in collaboration with Dr. Sarah Wilcox, Sociology, KSU, Celebrating College Teaching, KSU, October 2002. Unrefereed.

§ Pedagogy Presentations other than Conferences “Art History, Critical Thinking, and Creative Practice,” Portraits in Practice presentation, faculty case studies in action, Faculty Professional Development Center, KSU, November 2003. “Critical Thinking in Art History,” Faculty Learning Communities presentation, Faculty Professional Development Center, KSU, May 2003.

§ Service Presentations “Curatorial Practices,” invited lecturer, “Senior Seminar,” Professor Ron Binks, Department of Art and Art History, UTSA, February 2013. “Critical Theory,” invited lecturer, “Research Methods,” Professor Judy Sobre, Department of Art and Art History, UTSA, October 2012. “Curatorial Practices,” invited lecturer, “Senior Seminar,” Professors Ron Binks and Kent Rush, Department of Art and Art History, UTSA, September 2011. Sherer, 10

“Curatorial Practices,” invited lecturer, “Senior Seminar,” Professor Ron Binks, Department of Art and Art History, UTSA, September 2010. “Curatorial Practices,” invited lecturer, “Senior Seminar,” Professor Ron Binks, Department of Art and Art History, UTSA, January 2010. “Curatorial Practices,” invited lecturer, “Senior Seminar,” Professor Ron Binks, Department of Art and Art History, UTSA, September 2009. “Curatorial Practices,” invited lecturer, “Senior Seminar,” Professor Ron Binks, Department of Art and Art History, UTSA, January 2009. “Creativity and Representation in The Art Guys,” invited lecturer, “Integrating Reading and Language Arts,” Professor Roxanne Henkin (Early Childhood Education), September 2008. “Art and Academics: A look at how San Antonio’s university art departments are priming future artists to survive and thrive in the industry,” interview report by Donna J. Tuttle, San Antonio Business Journal (September 5, 2008). “Curatorial Practices,” invited lecturer, “Senior Seminar,” Professor Ron Binks, Department of Art and Art History, UTSA, September 2008. “Curatorial Practices,” invited lecturer, “Senior Seminar,” Professor Ron Binks, Department of Art and Art History, UTSA, August 2007. “Curatorial Practices,” invited lecturer, “Graduate Seminar,” Professor Constance Lowe, Department of Art and Art History, UTSA February 2007. “Curatorial Practices,” invited lecturer, “Senior Seminar,” Professor Ron Binks, Department of Art and Art History, UTSA, February 2007. “Grant Proposal Writing Workshop,” session leader, University Teaching Council, KSU, January 2006 and January 2005. “Preparing C.V.’s, Resumés, and other Professional Documents,” (with Gus Medicus, KSU Art), invited lecturer, 3rd Annual Kent State University Art Conference, March 2005. “Celebrating College Teaching,” moderator, University Teaching Council, KSU, October 2004. “Celebrating College Teaching,” moderator, University Teaching Council, KSU, October 2003. “Campus Conversations,” discussion leader, Celebrating College Teaching, KSU, October 2002.

University Service Activities § University of Texas at San Antonio (university level) Mentor, Provost Summer Research Mentor Program, Graduate School, Summer 2012. Primary co-author (with Kim Kline), Quality Enhancement Proposal for SACS/COC re-accreditation, Graduate School, “Program for Graduate Achievement: Maximizing the relevance of graduate education for current and prospective students,” Spring 2008-Fall 2008. Member, Gallery 23 Advisory Committee, Spring 2011-present. Chair, Membership Committee, Graduate Council, Fall 2007-Summer 2011. Member, Executive Committee, Graduate Council, Fall 2007-Summer 2011. Member, Graduate Council, Fall 2007-Summer 2011. Member, University Art Commission, Fall 2006-Spring 2010.

§ University of Texas at San Antonio (college and department level) Member, Art Search Committee (New Media). Fall 2012-present. Member, College Research Advisory Committee, Fall 2011-present. Organizer and Author, Assessment Instruments and Reports for Art History undergraduate and graduate programs, Spring 2009-present. Member, DFRAC (Department Faculty Review and Advisory Committee), Fall 2008-present. Member, Satellite Space Advisory Committee, Fall 2006-present. Member, MA Committee, Fall 2006-present. Member, MFA Committee, Fall 2006-present. Chair, Art History Search Committee, 2011-2012. Member, Visual Resource Collection/Graphic Designer Search Committee, Fall 2008-Spring 2009. Member, COLFA Advisory Group, Art and Art History Committee, Fall 2006-Spring 2010. Sherer, 11

Chair, Guest Lecture Series Committee, Fall 2007-Fall 2008. Juror, Sophomore Review, College of Architecture, December 2008. Member, Guest Lecture Series Committee, Fall 2006-Spring 2007. Member, Art History Search Committees (two positions), Fall 2007-Spring 2008. Member, Department Chair Search Committee, Fall 2007-Spring 2008.

§ Kent State University (university level) Chair-Elect, University Teaching Council, Faculty Senate appointment, Fall 2005-2006. Member, University Teaching Council, Faculty Senate appointment, Fall 2003-2006. Member, Council, American Association of University Professors-KSU, Spring 2003-2006. Faculty Affiliate, Women’s Studies Program, Spring 2002-2006. Faculty Affiliate, LGBT Studies Program, Spring 2002-2006. Member, Quality of Faculty Work/Life Committee, University Committee (faculty union and administration joint committee), Spring 2006 and Spring 2002-Spring 2004.

§ Kent State University (college and school level) Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, School of Art, Spring 2002-2006. Member, Digital Imaging Committee, School of Art, Spring 2002-2006. Member, Scholarship Committee, School of Art, Spring 2002-2006. Member, Creative Art Awards Committee, School of Art, Spring 2002-2006. Juror, Annual Small Works Competition, Downtown Gallery, Kent, Ohio, November 2005. Juror, Architecture Fifth Year Design, Fall 2005 Member, College of Fine and Professional Arts Mission/Transition Committee, Fall 2005. Juror, Architecture Fourth Year Design, Fall 2004. Member, Advisory Committee, Gallery 138, School of Art, Fall 2003-Fall 2004. Member, Graduate Studies Curriculum Committee, School of Art, Fall 2003-Spring 2004. Member, College Curriculum Committee, College of Fine and Professional Arts, Spring 2003-Spring 2004.

§ Additional Service Activities Member, Yale Alumni Schools Committee 4807, Yale Club of South Texas, Fall 2007-present. Member, Advisory Committee, Steven J. Schochet Center for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Studies, University of Minnesota, Fall 1997-Spring 2001. Member, Advisory Committee, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Programs Office, University of Minnesota, Fall 1994-Spring 1996, Fall 1997-Spring 2000. Member, Committee of the Whole, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, Fall 1998-Spring 1999. Member, Subcommittee on Nonfiction Writing, Department of English, University of Kentucky, Spring 1997. Member, University Senate’s Subcommittee on GLBT Concerns, University of Minnesota, Fall 1994-Spring 1996. Director, Yale Alumni Schools Committee 4301, 1990-93. Responsible for organizing interviews for prospective students from throughout central Kentucky.

Public Service Activities Member, Board, Mid-America College Art Association, Fall 2008-present. Lecture, “Why Critical Theory in the Arts?,” Academy for Learning in Retirement, San Antonio, March 2009. Member, Board of Directors, Zygote Press, Cleveland, Ohio, Spring 2005-2006. Moderator, Dream On: Lines of Escape, panel discussion (with Maureen Connor, Sharon Ellis, David Gibson, Stuart Horodner, David Pagel, and Adam Ross), Dreamweaver: the science and culture of escape, fantasy, and reverie, exhibition, lecture, and film series, Cleveland Institute of Art, October 2005. Co-coordinator, local premiere presentations, PBS series, Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, with Kevin Concannon, The Myers School of Art, University of Akron, September 7-8. 2005. Juror, Interdisciplinary Arts Awards, Ohio Arts Council, December 2002.

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Participant, Creating Ways: A Conference on San Antonio’s Creative Economy, San Antonio, November 2007. Participant, Texas Sculpture Symposium, Texas Tech University, Junction, Texas, November 2007. Moulton Scholar, Faculty Professional Development Center, KSU, 2006-07 (ultimately declined). Participant, Professional Development Institute, The Access to Higher Education Project, College of Education, KSU, June 2003. Issues regarding college students with disabilities. Participant, Information Literacy Workshop, Libraries and Media Services, March 2003. University Teaching Scholar, Teaching Scholars for Junior Faculty Learning Community, KSU, 2002-2003. Participant, 22nd Annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, November 2002. Participant, Writing Across the Curriculum Workshop, Department of English, University of Kentucky, May 1997. Participant, “Performative Subjectivities,” The Pennsylvania State University Summer Seminar in Theory and Culture, Department of English, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation Traveling Scholar Program, Summer 1996. Participant, Teaching Opportunity Program for Doctoral Students, Office of Human Resources with funding by the Bush Foundation, University of Minnesota, Fall 1995, Winter 1996, Spring 1996. Program provides exposure to and practice with issues, strategies, and skills to improve teaching abilities and prepare for careers in higher education.