Talks, Lectures, Conversations
For a full list of the 2021 There Plant Eyes Monster Book Tour events, including links to recordings, visit There Plant Eyes.com.
VRI (2022): I was the keynote speaker at this conference for folks who work in vision rehabilitation organizations (government and private ) in NY.
USC (2022): I was a guest speaker in Maggie Nelson’s “Readings in Gender Studies” graduate course.
University of Georgia (2022): I was a guest speaker in Professor Marla Carlson’s “Disability and Performance” graduate seminar.
Rice University (2022, 2020): I was a guest speaker in Prof. Lan Li’s “History of the Senses” course.
FMDG Music School (2022): I was interviewed by Dr. Leslie Jones for “Conversations with The Fil.”
Cary Memorial Library (2021): I presented “The Tap, Tapping of the Blind Man’s Cane from James Joyce to Today.”
NYU (2021): I guest lectured on the Homeric blind bard in Prof. Gilman’s graduate seminar on the epic in English Literature.
Baylor College of Medicine (2021) I presented a series of interactive talks on empathy, humility, and disability for four groups of residents.
NYU Tandon School of Engineering (2017, 2018): I Guest-lectured and consulted on two classes on technology, art, and accessibility taught by Claire Kearney-Volpe.
School for Poetic Computation (2017): I guest-lectured on technology, art, and accessibility in class and at events coordinated by co-founder Taeyoon Choi.
American Printing House for the Blind (2013) I was invited to present my work at one of the premiere publishing houses and museums of blindiana in the U.S. in Louisville, Kentucky
Teaching
“Texts and Ideas: Unbelief in Western Thought” (2022) NYU
“Texts and Ideas: Antiquity and the Renaissance” (2021) NYU
“Literary Interpretation” (2003, 2007-08, 2009, 2010-11) NYU
“Conversations of the West: Antiquity and the Renaissance” (2002, 2005, 2007, 2009) NYU
“Renaissance in England” (Summer 2005, 2006) NYU