2004-2006 Instructor Dept. of Art History and Communications Art History McGill University PUBLICATIONS Amanda Boetzkes, The Ethics of Earth Art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. Reviews of The Ethics of Earth Art: Thomas Heyd, Environmental Ethics 34 no. 4 (Winter 2012): 451-454. James Nisbet, “Earth Matters,” Art Journal 71 no. 1, (2012): 161-164. Suzanne Boetgger, “Environmentalist Desire,” Oxford Art Journal (February, 2012): 107-111. Norah Bowman-Broz, “Reviews: The Ethics of Earth Art,” LAKE: Journal of Arts and Environment 7.1 (2012). Capper Nichols, Public Art Review 22. 2 (May 2011): 68. David Stentiford, Art and Environment, Nevada Art Museum blog, October, 2011 Deborah Karasov, RainTaxi, Winter 2010-2011. Cassie Hansen, ArchitectureAU, October, 2011 Amanda Boetzkes and Aron Vinegar, eds. Heidegger and the Work of Art History. Burlington, VT: Ashgate 2014. Contributors: Whitney Davis, Bronwen Wilson, Michael Golec, Diarmuid Costello, Michael Gnehm, Ileanu Parvu, Philip Tonner, Robert Jackson, Matthew Bowman, Lori N. Johnson, Aron Vinegar and Amanda Boetzkes. (See my individual essay entry under Chapters In Edited Books). Reviews of Heidegger and the Work of Art History: Emma Bennett, “Review of "After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism" by Robert B. Pippin, and "Heidegger and the Work of Art History," edited by Amanda Boetzkes and Aron Vinegar,” Association of Art Historians Reviews, 2014. In Progress Amanda Boetzkes, Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste (sole-authored book). Funded by SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2010-2014. Amanda Boetzkes, Ecologicity and the Visual World (sole-authored book) Journal Articles “Earth/Place,” Cultural Dynamics, special issue on “The Elements”, edited by Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián. Forthcoming, March 2016. 6000 words.
Thomas Heise, “Circulation and the City: Essays on Mobility and Urban Culture (Review),” English Studies in Canada 36.2 (June 2010): 227-231. Robert McFarlane, “The Circulatory Turn?” H-Urban (May, 2011): net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31274. Jeffrey Ryan Barbeau, “Circulation and the City: Essays on Mobility and Urban Culture (Review) Canadian Journal of Communication 36.4 (2011). Mark Simpson, “Circulation and the City: Essays on Mobility and Urban Culture (Review),” University of Toronto Quarterly 81.3 (2012): 754-755. Catalog Essays and Publications “Basia Irland—Gathering a Political Ecology,” Basia Irland Retrospective, Museum Het Domein, Sittein, ND (Forthcoming, 2016). (3000 words). “Visualizing the Multitude—The Species Wall,” Trout Fishing in America and Other Stories: Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir and Mark Wilson (Stockholm:248Forlaget, 2015). (3000 words) “New Historical Materialisms,” conversations, curated by David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi (February 2015). (1000 words, with two 500-word follow-up entries) “The Eternal of the Animal—Maria Whiteman, Taxonomia,” for Maria Whiteman, Taxonomia, at Latitude 53 Gallery, Edmonton, AB, 2011. (750-word catalog essay) “Sandra Bromley—Fire,” Sandra Bromley—Fire, at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, 2010. (1500-word catalog essay) “Sandra Bromley and Wallis Kendal—Gun Sculpture,” Vienna International Centre, Vienna, 2010. (300-word exhibition brochure) “Contemporary Art Facing the Earth,” Neuvième édition du centre de recherche sur l’intermédialité (CRI), 2006. Published proceedings: Available online at . EDITORIAL BOARDS The Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities GRANTS, RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS, AND RESIDENCIES 2013 Visiting Fellow, Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany June 10-23, 2013 2012 Residency, “The Retreat: A Position of dOCUMENTA 13” in cooperation with Banff Research in Culture (BRIC)
2011 Have All the Wild Things Gone? Ecocriticism and Comparative Literature, Annual Comparative Literature Symposium Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX Paper: “Plasticity as Eco-Criticism: Animal Interventions in Contemporary Art” 2010 Association of Art Historians (AAH), Glasgow, UK Session Co-chair with Aron Vinegar: “Heidegger and the Work of Art History” College Art Association (CAA), Chicago, IL “Post-Conceptual Art and the Affordance of Obsolete Things” Session: “Theorizing Things” 2009 Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Conference, Edmonton, AB Panel Chair: Open Session 2008 College Art Association (CAA), Dallas, TX Paper: “Offering the Body, Retracting Touch: The Ethics of Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Series” Session: “Resisting Closure: Phenomenology as a Critical Practice in Art, Architecture, and Art Writing” 2006 Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Conference, Halifax, NS Paper: “The Abundant Realism of Allegorical Art: Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living” Neuvième Forum du CRI (Centre de recherche sur l’intermédialité), Montreal, QC Paper: “Contemporary Art – Facing the Earth as Alterity” 2005 Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Conference, Victoria, BC Paper: “Earth Art and Nature as Excess” Conception/Reception, The Association of Art Historians (AAH) Conference, Bristol, UK Paper: “Seeing, Dwelling and Letting-Be - Ethical Distance in Contemporary Earth Art” 2004 The Architecture of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Architecture, Congress CATH (Cultural Analysis, Theory and History), Bradford, UK Paper: “The Dream Lake Garden of Montreal: Pictorialism and Bodily Engagement” Metropolis, The Space Between Conference, Columbus, OH Paper: “Umberto Boccioni’s The Laugh: Between Blind Nature and Social Order” Print Culture and the City Conference, Montreal, QC Paper: “Stillness and Flight: Empty Exchange in George Grosz’s Prints”
M.A. Second Reader, Sara Kowolski, Imagining the Cancerous Body: Representations of Cancer in Medical Science and Contemporary Visual Art, Dept. of Art and Design, University of Alberta, 2009-2010. M.A. Second Reader, Samantha Mallett, The Politics of Play: Relational Aesthetics and Installation Art, Dept. of Art and Design, University of Alberta, 2009-2010. Honours Undergraduate Supervisor Angel Callander, Vision and Visibility on the Internet, School of Fine Arts and Music, University of Guelph, 2013-2014. Jessica Knowler, Pipilotti Rist and Runa Video Art’s (Para)Feminist Interventions on the Body, Dept. of Art and Design, University of Alberta, 2010-2011. Justine Hartlieb-Power, Egon Schiele’s Terrible Passion: Exploring Fin-de-Siécle Masculinity and Femininity, Dept. of Art and Design, University of Alberta, 2010-2011. SERVICE 2014-2015 Article Referee, Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, Summer 2015 Article Referee, Art History, Summer 2015 Manuscript Referee, University of Minnesota Press, Summer 2015 x 2 Organizing Committee, “Art, Media and the Public Sphere” Symposium, Media@McGill, Montreal Selection Committee, Artist Residency in the School of Environmental Studies (SES) Program Lecture Series Organizer, “Sound and Vision Lecture Series,” SOFAM, University of Guelph Crossways Program Selection Committee, College of Arts, University of Guelph Advisory Committee to the Director, SOFAM, University of Guelph Graduate Coordinator, M.A. in Art History and Visual Culture, College of Arts, University of Guelph Chair, Master’s Examination Committee, School of Fine Arts and Music, University of Guelph, Sarah Carter Curriculum Committee, School of Fine Arts and Music, University of Guelph