Graduate Publications and Presentations

Graduate Publications and Presentations

Recent Graduate Student Publications and Presentations

Publications

Asia Adomanis completed an article entitled “Strategic Hybridity and the (In)scrutable in Seong Moy's Calligraphic Abstractions,” which will appear in the Archives of American Art Journal 65, no. 1, Spring 2026. 

Asia Adomanis reviewed Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art and the Making of America’s Pacific Century, which will appear in the Journal of Asian American Studies 29, no. 1 (2026).

Asia Adomanis published an essay on Seong Moy in 150 Stories: Lives of the Artists at the League, ed. Stephanie Cassidy (New York: Art Students League, 2025). 

Tony Del Aversano published a book review on Simone Martini in Orvieto (New Haven: Yale University Press) in The Sixteenth Century Journal, Volume 55, Number 3-4, Fall/Winter 2024, a publication of the University of Chicago Press. 

Cole J. Graham published a peer-reviewed article entitled “Inefficient, Unsustainable, and Fragmentary: The Rauschenberg Combines as Disabled Bodies” in react/review: a responsive journal for art & architecture out of UC Santa Barbara.

Bowie Bo Gyung Kim published an interview article with artist Muhammad Toukhy in Impulse, an online art magazine.

Mia Kivel published a multi-book review entitled “Artists, Institutions, and Agitators in Midcentury Japan,” in Volume 48, Issue 1 of Art History, a publication of Oxford University Press.

April Riddle published “Extending Beyond the Ultimate Display in Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics” in Media-N 19, no. 1 in February 2023; and authored “Repurposing Surplus Data in Pursuit of Nonextractive Futures” for Sarah Rosalena: In All Directions (Columbus Museum of Art) in September 2023.

Keyu Yan published an exhibition review of “Xu Bing: Word Alchemy” in Burlington Contemporary in July 2024; as well as a peer-reviewed article entitled “Contested Traditions: Contemporary Chinese Fiber Art and Gu Wenda’s Wisdom Comes from Tranquility (1986)” in World Art in March 2024.

Presentations

Asia Adomanis presented “National Identity and the Aesthetics of (Anti-)Militarism in the Art and Writing of Yun Gee, 1937-1945” at the Space Between Society Conference: Peace and Conflict in the Space Between in May 2025.

Asia Adomanis presented “Beyond Hybridity: Abstraction and Racial Legibility in Seong Moy’s Inscription of T’Chao Pae II (1952),” as part of a session titled “Sinophone Art in the Global Cold War” at the College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference in February 2024

Asia Adomanis presented “Subjectivity, Materiality, and Belonging: Seong Moy’s Abstract Landscapes” at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum’s Inaugural Symposium on American Art: Land, Place, Identity, in November 2024.

Schuyler Black-Seitz presented “Dam Democracy: TVA Architecture and Design at MoMA and Labor Politics in the New Deal” at the College Art Association 2025 Annual Conference in New York City

Casey Carsel presented the solo exhibition “I can’t shake the stranger out of you” at CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki in Christchurch, New Zealand, in August 2025.

Tony Del Aversano presented “Queering Ephemeral Bodies: Visual Representations of Angels in Trecento Italian Painting” at the Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies in Durham, NC in April, 2025

Tony Del Aversano presented “From Angel to Man: The Archangel Michael in Medieval and Early Modern Art” at the Queer Palimpsests: Rewriting Medieval Art History Symposium at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA in April 2025.

Karin Flora presented “Roman Goddess and Mary: Material Mediation at the Threshold of Contrasting Worlds” at the International Congress of the History of Art in Lyon, France in June 2024.

Liz Heise-Glass presented “Music/Television: Experiments in Sound and Image in the 1980s” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference in Boston in March 2024.

Dareen Hussein presented “After the Defeat: New Realism and the Aesthetics of Disillusionment in Arab Cinema after 1967” at the annual Middle East Studies Association conference in November 2024.

Dareen Hussein presented “Resurrecting the ‘Songs of Oblivion’: Assia Djebar’s Theory of Counter-Cinema” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference in Boston in March 2024

Dareen Hussein presented “Tracing Palestinian Representation on Screen: From Orientalism Towards a Militant Counter-Image” at No Evil Eye Cinema’s virtual symposium Cinematic Interventions to Freeing Palestine & The Global South in December 2023

Mia Kivel presented “From the Kotan to the Gallery: A Re-evaluation of Ainu ‘Tourist Art’” at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Columbus, Ohio in March, 2025.

Mia Kivel presented “Naming and Knowing the Land in Yaun-Moshir” at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs in Columbus, Ohio in March, 2025.

Michiko Kubota presented “Kitazawa Rakuten’s ‘Jiji Manga’: Jyogakusei Counterculture Rebels Against Imperial Gender Norms and Language Politics” as part of a four-part panel titled "Visualizing Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan” at the Midwestern Conference on Asian Affairs in Columbus, Ohio in October, 2025.

Allie Mickle presented “Aesthetic Kitsch as Global Commodity in Mika Rottenberg’s Cosmic Generator” at the College Art Association Annual Conference in Chicago in February 2024.

April Riddle presented “Temporal Displacements: Playing the Financialized Environment” at ASAP/16 (the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present’s annual conference) in Houston in October 2025.

April Riddle presented “Navigating the Futility of D.I.Y. Individualism in Michael Smith's Art Game” at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Annual Conference in Corvallis, Oregon, in August 2025.

Christy Sher presented “Visualizing the Maternal Body: Pregnancy and Sexual Education in Utagawa Yoshitora’s Fubu no on o shiru zu (Realize One’s Parental Love, 1880)” as part of the panel “Visualizing Life and Death in East Asia” at the 74th Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, held in Columbus, Ohio, in October 2025. 

Christy Sher presented “Procreative Passions: Visualizing Love, Desire, and Lineage in Edo-Period Japanese Erotica” at the 51st Annual Cleveland Symposium, “Love and Desire in the Visual Arts,” at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, in November 2025.

Hannah Slater presented “Post-disaster or Post-war? Reading Hatakeyama Naoya’s Rikuzentakata photographs through 1960s fūkeiron Discourse” at the Midwest Art History Society Conference in Chicago in April 2024. 

Peter Smyth presented their research on cartooning at Comics Crossroads Columbus (CXC) as part of the graduate student panel in September 2024.

Emilela Thomas-Adams presented “Tender Destruction: Recycling and Repair in a Late Medieval Object” as part of the symposium on Ruin and Reparation: (Dis)Repair in Art and Architectural History at the University of Pittsburgh in March 2024

Margaret Wilson presented “Painting Faces and Building Spaces: Convent Community in Lilly Library MS Ricketts 198” at the International Medieval Society - Paris Annual Conference in May 2025

Maggie Wilson presented “Christ and John’s Apocalyptic Intimacy in Bodley 401” in the two-part panel, Queer(ing) Medieval Art, at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Mich. in May 2024.