(she/they)
b. May 7
from Amarillo, TX
working in Austin, TX
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Elizabeth has been an English & film professor, union organizer, anti-sexual violence activist, and nonprofit grant writer.
As a painter, their work demands that companion animals be taken seriously; dogs are subjects in and of themselves who actively shape the world we live in. Thanks to many years of caring for and being cared for by rescue and foster dogs, Elizabeth’s art offers up the principles of resisting hierarchies, dismantling oppressive power relations, and imagining liberatory futures.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 | Celebrating Women, J.B. & Hallie Jester Williamson Annex Gallery, Round Rock Arts, Round Rock, Texas, juried)
2025 | Rising Eyes of Texas, McKelvey Charitable Fund Gallery, Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, Texas (juried by Sara Morgan, gallery director of The Art Museum of South Texas)
2024 | Perspectives, Student Organization of Fine Arts Spring Show, ArtLab, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas
2024 | 48th Annual Student Art Exhibition, Gallery 2000, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas (judged by Erin Cunningham, Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin)
EDUCATION
Ongoing classes | Art Department | Austin Community College | Austin, TX
All coursework complete- Ph.D. in English with a concentration in Film & Media Studies | Wayne State University | Detroit, MI
Area of research: Representation of sexual violence in horror films
Master’s of Arts in American Literature with an emphasis in Children’s Literature | San Diego State University | San Diego, CA
Thesis: “Of Bashful Bears and Timid Warriors: Neoliberalism, Hyper-masculinity, and Ultra-violence in Moby-Dick: The Graphic Novel”
Bachelors of Arts in English Literature with a minor in German Language | Willamette University | Salem, OR
Thesis: “Male Reproduction Anxiety and Mockery in Laurence Stern’s Tristram Shandy”
TEACHING
Wayne State University | Community Work & Service-Learning with local Non-Profits, Intro to College Writing, Intermediate College Writing & Intro to Film | Detroit, MI
San Diego State University | Literature, Rhetorical Analysis & College Writing | San Diego, CA
Mesa Community College | First-year English & Writing | San Diego, CA
NONPROFIT WORK
Grant Writer | National Domestic Violence Hotline | Austin, TX
Grant Writer | Mercy Education Project | Detroit, MI
Grant Writer | Michigan Non-Profit Development Solutions | Detroit, MI
GALLERY WORK
2023- current | Women & Their Work | Archives, Social Media & Programs Intern, Austin, Texas
LABOR ORGANIZING
President | GEOC-AFT #6123 (Graduate Employees’ Organizing Committee) | Detroit, MI
Communications Chair | GEOC-AFT #6123 | Detroit, MI
Michigan Organizing Institute Fellow | GEOC-AFT #6123 | Detroit, MI
CONFERENCES
Society for Cinema and Media Studies; “Moses Sumney’s Pulsating Technologies: (Sometimes Failed) Feelings of Connection and Togetherness”
The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900; “Being Sideways and Anti-Generational with Dogs: Thinking Through the Queerness of the Family Dog in Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness and Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood”
Midwest Modern Language Association; "Down with Dogs: The Queerness of the Family Dog in Radclyffe Hall'sThe Well of Loneliness and Dunja Barnes's Nightwood"
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association; “Getting Past Gaga: Identity, Visibility, and Queer Reimaginations in Marjorie Liu’s Graphic Novel Monstress”
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association; “Call Me Entertaining: The Graphic Novel Adaptation of Moby-Dick, a Consideration of Ethics, Ultra-Violence, and Neoliberalism”
University of British Columbia’s Biennial Children’s Literature Conference; “Chasing the Great White Whale of Masculinity: Visualizations of Violence, Neoliberalism, and the Graphic Novel Adaptation of Moby-Dick”
