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Juried Group Exhibitions
2025    Down on Main (10 Image Portfolio), Ann Jastrab, Juror 
   Friends of Pacific New Media - Contemporary Photography in Hawaii, Online Exhibition 
      
2024    Classical Foundations: Richmond, IN (single image from Down on Main project)
       LoosenArt - Humans Landscapes Millepiani Exhibition Space, Rome, Italy

Publications – Individual Photographic Images
2025    Viva! (Los Ojos de Whitman, Memory)
    Abstract #9 (AZPA Juried Theme Gallery Silence; Buzzy Sullivan, juror)
2024    El desafío de las maniquíes (Los Ojos de Whitman, Mystical Creatures/Fantastical Beings)
2022    Spring’s Promise (Los Ojos de Whitman, Open Call)
Whirling Dervish 9 (Reader’s Gallery, ICM Photography Magazine)    

Online Exhibitions
2022    Productivity Culture (ICM New Beginnings)

Awards
2025    Arizona Photo Alliance – Members Photography Grant
2022    Photography Mentorship Award (Selected for Personal Mentoring, Morag Paterson)

Curatorial Experience
2014    Inside Darkroom: A Graphic Memoir of Immigration and Race
       Stevens Gallery, Whitman College. Month-long exhibit of 17 framed art pieces

Relevant Education
2024     Professional Practices in Photography (Pacific New Media, David Ulrich, July-Aug)
Creative Breakthroughs in Photography: Preparing the Ground (PNM, David Ulrich, June-Aug)
Portfolio Review/Main Street (Steven Benson, Snap!, May 26, 2024)
Writing Pictures: An Exploration of Text and Image (Joanne Dugan, May-June)
The Eye of the Mind: The Role of Power & Attention in Photography (PNM, David Ulrich, Feb-May)
2023    Creative Freedom in Photography (Pacific New Media, David Ulrich, Oct-Dec)
Critical Perspectives in Photography (Pacific New Media, David Ulrich, June-Aug)
Photographic Practice: Entering the Creative Flow (Pacific New Media, David Ulrich, Feb-April)
2022    New Beginnings with ICM Photography (Sept-Nov)
Deep Perception: The Art of Seeing with a Camera (Pacific New Media, David Ulrich, Oct–Dec)
The Mind’s Eye: Concept and Creation in Photography (Pacific New Media, David Ulrich, July-Aug)
Composition & Photography (Rocky Nook, Harold Davis, June)
Mindful Photography (Rocky Nook, David Ulrich, May)

Selected Lectures / Webinars
2025    Visual Language and Sequencing (Drew Levinthal)
2024     Reconsidering the Journey (Aline Smithson)
Image and Text (Aline Smithson)
2023    The Art and Craft of Photography Conference (Rocky Nook, Nov 8-9)

Selected Academic Awards
2024    Collaborative Research Award, Whitman (Creative Immersion: Photography) 
2023    Collaborative Research Award, Whitman (Cultivating Creativity: Creative Practices in Hispanic Studies)
2022    Collaborative Research Award, Whitman (Double Exposures: The Interplay of Photographs and Comics in    Historietas x la identidad)
2015      Cross-Disciplinary Learning and Teaching Initiative, Whitman (Coordinator, Visual Literacies)
2014    Perry Summer Research Grant (Visualizing Invisibility: Disability, Addiction, and Homelessness)
2013    Adam Dublin Award for the Study of Global Multiculturism (Visual Voices: Hispanic Graphic Novels)
2011    Abshire Research Scholar Award (Drawing on Words and Images: Graphic Texts in the Americas)

Selected Catalog Essays / Exhibition Reviews 
2016    SEEING STORIES: Traversing the Graphic Narrative. Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College. Exhibition    Review. International Journal of Comic Art 18.1: 630-639
2009    Ricochet: Installations by MaLynda Poulsen-Jones, Catalog Essay, Whitman College

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications 
2018    “Reading Between the Lines: Drawing on the Horrors of Disappearance in Un asesino anda suelto” in Narrativas del miedo: Terror en obras literarias, cinemáticas, y televisivas de Latinoamérica. Marco Ramírez, David Rozotto, and Karem Langer eds, 21-42.

2017    “Textual Recall: The Art of Braiding in Altarriba and Kim’s ‘La casa del sol naciente’ and El arte de volar.” ImageText Special Volume: Traumics 9.1.  

2016    “Tracing (Argentine) Feminism Across Time, or How Maitena Plays with la histori(et)a,” Chasqui 45.1, 42-53.

2013    “Lila Quintero Weaver’s Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White: Envisioning Equality,” Confluencia Special Vol. “Derechos humanos y literatura” (Human Rights and Literature) 29.1, 109-125.

    “El arte de contar: La evolución de Pasos bajo el agua como testimonio ilustrado,” Alicia Kozameh: Ética, estética, y las acrobacias de la palabra escrita. Ed. Erna Pfeiffer. IILI Series, U Pittsburgh P. 129-143.

2012    “Drawing the Line Between Memory, History and Artistic Re/creation: Miguel Gallardo and Carlos Giménez’s Graphic Testimonies,” Pushing the Boundaries of Latin American Testimony: Meta-morphoses and Migrations. Ed. Janis Breckenridge and Louise Detwiler. Palgrave, 201-220.

2009    “Text and the City: Design(at)ing Post-Dictatorship Memorial Sites in Argentina.”  Latin American Jewish Cultural Production. Hispanic Issues.  Ed. David William Foster. Vanderbilt UP, 135-54.

2006    “Narrative Imag(in)ing:  Susan Meiselas Documents the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua.” Photography and Writing in Latin America: Double Exposures. Ed. Marcy Schwartz and Mary Beth Tierney-Tello.  Albuquerque: U of NM P, 59-86.

Teaching Experience
2008-    Professor of Hispanic Studies, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA                
Develop and Oversee Visual Literacies Track in Hispanic Studies Dept. 
        Design and teach courses on film, comics/graphic novel, and photography
Pedagogical innovations combining creative practices with language learning
2004-8    Assistant Professor of Spanish, Hiram College, Hiram Ohio        
2003-4    Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN    

Volunteer Activities
2024      Photographer: Arena Wars, Salem OR
Photographer: PBC Boxing Tournament, Pendleton OR 
2014-    Peer Reviewer / Manuscript Reviewer
    ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies 
    New Readings, Comics and Translation (special volume)
    University of Mississippi Press 
        Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White (graphic novel)
    University of Texas Press 
        Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil: Major Texts
Argentine, Mexican and Guatemalan Photography: Feminist, Queer and Post-Masculinist Perspectives
  2009-    Sheehan Gallery Committee, Whitman College
  2018    Vetted untranslated, Mexican plays for Borderlight: Festival of International Theatre (Cleveland)

Education 
2002     Ph.D. Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
1993    M.A. Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago 
1992     B.A. Highest Distinction, Spanish and Religious Studies, Purdue University

Memberships        
Photographers without Borders
Tri-Cities Digital Photography Club (WA)
Arizona Photography Alliance

Languages
English (native speaker), Spanish (fluent), Portuguese (reading knowledge)