Select Public Lectures

February 2008 “Ni-ni Adolescence: Families Found by Morton Bartlett, Bernard Faucon and Ron Mueck,” University of Cambridge.

February 2008 “Contemporary Photography and the Image of the Boy” CIDRA, University of Manchester, UK.

November 2007 “Hiroshima Was Inside the Marble: Archiving the Unrepresentable,”

National Portrait Gallery, London.

October 2007 “Summer Was Inside the Marble: Marguerite Duras’ and Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima mon amour,’ ffotogallery, University of Wales, Newport.

March 2007 “Ni-ni Adolescence: Anthony Goicolea, Bernard Faucon and Collier Schorr,” Royal College of Art, London.

November 2006 “Black and Blue: Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida, Meredith College, North Carolina.

October 2006 “Gauguin in Black and Blue,” part of the Rand Lecture Series, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

June 2006 “Boys Will Be Boys: Collier Schorr and Anthony Goicolea,” Gulf Coast Museum Florida.

March 2006 “For-getting to Eat: Alice’s Mouthing Metonymy,” A Conference on Lewis Carroll, University of Southern California (USC) and the Huntington Library.

March 2006 “And summer was inside the marble: Marguerite Duras’ and Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour,” keynote for the conference “A Thousand Words,” Humanities Center, Texas, A&M.

August 2005, “The Disease of Nostalgia,” University of Auckland, New Zealand

July, 2005 “Nesting: The Boyish Labor of JM Barrie,” Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, NZ

July, 2005 “Splitting: The Unmaking of Childhood and Home in the Photographs of Jacques Henri Lartigue, 1894-1986,” Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, NZ

July, 2005 Happiness With a Long Piece of Black Leader: Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil (1982),” Keynote for Cultural Studies, University of Canterbury,

Christchurch, NZ.

July through

August 2005 LECTURE SERIES, Department of Art, University of Canterbury, New Zealand:

July 20: “Beautiful, Boring and Blue: Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman and Marcel Proust”

July 27: “Shadows Lost and Found: Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida”

August 3: “The Disease of Nostalgia: Joseph Cornell, Roland Barthes and Marcel Proust”

“Swallowing Childhood: Jacques Henri Lartigue and Marcel Proust,” University of Canterbury, Christchurch NZ

May 2005 “The Smell of Judy Heffernan,” Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

May 2005 “Happiness With a Long Piece of Black Leader: Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil (1982),” University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

May 2005 “Happiness With a Long Piece of Black Leader: Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil (1982),” Otterbein College, Ohio.

March 2005 “Happiness With a Long Piece of Black Leader: Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil (1982),” as part of the week-long conference in celebration of the work of Mieke Bal, other speakers included Mieke Bal, Fredric Jameson and others, Duke University, Durham, NC.

February 2005 “Happiness With a Long Piece of Black Leader: Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil (1982),” Royal College of Art, London

June 2004 “Beautiful, Boring and Blue: The Fullness of Proust’s Search and Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman,” University of Leeds, Leeds, England.

March 2004 “Beautiful, Boring and Blue: The Fullness of Proust’s Search and Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman,” Royal College of Art, London.

June 2003 “Dream Birds: The Clutching of Paul and Virginia by Julia Margaret Cameron and Joseph Cornell,” National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK.

May 2003 “Beautiful, Boring and Blue: The Fullness of Proust’s Search and Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, Tate Britain, London, UK

October 2002 “Monster/Critic,”Plenary, for the international conference on Gender, Culture and Power, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.

October 2002 "Travailing English: The Speaking Tongues of Psychoanalysis and Lesley Dill," for the panel Speaking English, for the international conference on Gender, Culture and Power, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.

May 2002 “Swallowing Childhood: Lartigue, Proust, and Wilde,” City University of New York (CUNY).

May 2002 “Queen Victoria is a Big Penny,” City University of New York (CUNY)

Oct. 2001 “Reading Boyishly (or sleeping with a kite): J.M. Barrie and The Little White Bird (1902),” The Victorian Institute Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

June 2001 “Straight Nostalgia: William Gedney’s Photographs of St. Joseph’s School for the Deaf, ca. 1960,” Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, North Carolina.

April 2001 “On Becoming,” lecture on my process of writing to undergraduate and graduate students at Georgia State University, Atlanta.

April 2001 “Splitting: The Unmaking of Childhood,” Georgia State University, Atlanta.

March 2001 “Childhood Regained,” 47th Annual Meeting for the Society of French Historical Studies, Chapel Hill, for the panel “The City of Paris: Photography, Memory, and the Museum.

March 2001 “The Good Boring Parts of Photography,” CAA (College Art Association), Chicago, for the panel “Bored and Paranoid: Two Tendencies of the Photograph,” co-chaired by myself and Elizabeth Howie.

Oct. 2000 “Keeping Time: Proust and Barthes,” keynote speaker for Eternal Youth, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.

Oct. 2000 “Splitting: The Unmaking of Childhood,” for Beholding Childhood, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Sept. 2000 “Keeping Time,” for the panel Time, Vision and the Body, CIHA (Congress of the International History of Art), London.

Sept. 2000 “Lewis Carroll’s Photographs,” gallery talk at the Ackland Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

July 2000 “Becoming Childhood,” for the panel on American Art for The Program in the Humanities and Human Values Weekend Seminar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Feb. 2000 “On Becoming,” author’s reading at the Regulator Bookshop, Durham, North Carolina.

Feb. 2000 “Two Boys Made of String,” for the panel entitled, Writing Towards Disappearance, CAA (College Art Association), New York.

Feb. 2000 “Surrealism’s Broken Body,” for The Program in the Humanities and Human Values Weekend Seminar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Nov. 1999 “Pulling Ribbons From Mouths: Barthes’s Umbilical Referent,” NCAC (National Communications Association Conference), Chicago.

Nov. 1999 “On Becoming,” author’s reading at the Bull’s Head Bookshop, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Oct. 1999 “On Becoming,” Sussex University, Brighton, England
“On Becoming,” RCA (Royal College of Art), London, England
“On Becoming,” University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England

Oct. 1999 “Reparative Work: Boys Made of String,” for the conference entitled, School Kids: Youth and Pedagogy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

May 1999 “Just Missing: The Motherland of Sally Mann and Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden,” University of Washington, Seattle.

May 1999 “Pulling Ribbons From Mouths: Umbilical Ties to the Referent,” University of Washington, Seattle.

April 1999 “Performing Postmodernism,” part of the series American Art and the Twentieth Century for The Program in the Humanities and Human Values Weekend Seminar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Apr. 1998 “Adolescent Reverie: Clementina Hawarden and Sally Mann,” Bowdoin College.

Feb. 1998 “Cameron and Pleasure,” Toronto Art Gallery, Toronto, with CAA (College Art Association).

Dec. 1997 “Response,” “The Sites of Culture,” National Meeting of Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Spring 1997 “Writing the New Art History,” leading one of three two-day seminars on the topic for graduate students at the University of Washington, Seattle, May, 1997. Organized by University of Washington’s Patricia Failing; other seminar leaders were: Richard Shiff (University of Texas, Austin) and Charles Harrison (Open University, England).

Feb. 1997 “Sapphic Narcissa: The Photographs of Clementina Hawarden,” The Pleasure Problem, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. The other conference speakers were Norman Bryson (Harvard), Wendy Steiner (University of Pennsylvania), Richard Howard (Columbia University) and John McGowan (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).

Jan. 1997 “Sapphic Narcissa: The Photographs of Clementina Hawarden,” The History of Photographs and Visual Culture, Museet For Fotokunst (The Museum of Photographic Arts), Odense, Denmark.

Apr. 1996 “Reduplicating Desire: The Photographs of Clementina Hawarden,” Keynote speaker, Annual Graduate Student Conference, Duke University.

Mar. 1996 “Reduplicating Desire: The Photographs of Clementina Hawarden,” Performance Studies Conference, Northwestern University.

Feb. 1996 “Collecting Desire,” CAA (College Art Association), Boston.

Apr. 1995 “Collecting Loss,” Seeing Through the Body, Wayne State University, Detroit.

Mar. 1995 “Performative Writing and the Visual Arts,” Performance Studies Conference, New York University.

Jan. 1993 “Prosopopoeia, Whiteness, Shyness, and Queerness: Addressing Andy Warhol in New Lights,” a response to the work of Jonothan Flatley, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Michael Moon, for the Warhol Conference, Duke University.

Nov. 1992 “Though We May Not See Her, We Can Certainly Smell Her: Articulating Women’s Difference Beyond Visualism,” Layton Lecture, University of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Feb. 1992 “Though We May Not See Her, We Can Certainly Smell Her,” CAA (College Art Association), Chicago.

Dec. 1991 “The Lens of Imperialism: Julia Margaret Cameron’s Photographs of Ceylon,” MLA (Modern Language Association), San Francisco.

Feb. 1990 “A Utopic ‘Play’ of Difference: Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maid-of-All-Work, Monster of Inexhaustible Beauty,” CAA (College Art Association), New York.

Conferences Organized

Oct. 2000 Beholding Childhood, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Organized with Carolyn Wood, and held in conjunction with UNC’s Ackland Museum’s show: Reflections in a Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll Photographer, A Centenary Exhibition. Conference speakers: Carol Mavor, Nina Auerbach, and Michael Moon.

Jan. 1994 (Un)Fixing Representation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Organized with Judith Farquhar and Tomoko Masuzawa. Conference speakers included Donna Haraway, Timothy Mitchell, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Peter Stallybrass, Mary Kelly and Patrick Brantlinger.

Apr. 1993 ‘Watching or Fainting; Sleeping or Dead’: Unveiling Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Beata Beatrix, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Conference speakers included James Kincaid and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.

Mar. 1992 The Problem of the Fetish, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 1992. Organized with Judith Farquhar and Tomoko Masuzawa. Conference speakers included Richard Shiff, William Pietz and Jane Gaines.