SARAH BOXER

STAFF & NON-STAFF POSITIONS
2013-2019     Contributing Writer, The Atlantic and Photograph
1984-2019     Contributor to Artforum, Comics Journal, LARB, NY Review of Books, NYT Slate, Smithsonian, Washington Post  
2004-2006    Web critic, The New York Times, reviewed Web art and culture
1997-2005     Arts & Ideas reporter, The New York Times
1995-2004     Photography critic, The New York Times
1994-1997     Staff editor, The Week in Review ofThe New York Times
1989-1994     Preview editor, NYT Book Review
1988-1989     Writer, Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated for Kids
1984-1987     Writer, Discover magazine
1982-1984     Associate editor & columnist, The Sciences, NY Academy of Sciences
1980-1981      Reporter, The Brooklyn Phoenix  

BOOKS + COMICS & ESSAYS IN BOOKS
2019             Mother May I? (IP Books) and In the Floyd Archives (2nd Edition, IP Books)
2016             "A Map, A Tonic, A Shower Curtain," in the map anthology You Are Here, NYC: The Soul of the City (Tributary)
2016             "Why Are All the Cartoon Mothers Dead" in Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking (Bedford)
2012             "Ripped From the Headlines," in Shock of The News ​(National Gallery of Art)
2010             "George Herriman: The Cat in the Hat," in The Best American Comics Criticism (Fantagraphics)
2008             Editor, Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web (Vintage) 
2001             Author and illustrator, In the Floyd Archives: A Psycho-Bestiary (Pantheon)
1997             "A Lewd Awakening," a comic, in Dick For a Day (Villard)

PUBLISHED DRAWINGS
1992-2018     Comic for the New York Review online, Drawings for NYT Book Review, and the Week in Review of NYT 
1997               "A Lewd Awakening," a comic in Dick for a Day

OTHER WORK 
2019              Reader for New Directions: Writing With a Psychoanalytic Edge, Washington-Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis
2014-2017     Judge for The LA Times Book Prize (graphic novels and comics)

MEMBERSHIPS 
2019-             The Authors' Guild
2019-             The Newswomen's Club of New York 
2006-2019    The National Book Critics Circle (voting member)
2016-2019    The Lewis Carroll Society of North America

EDUCATION
1980               Harvard University, B.A., cum laude in philosophy
1980s-1990s  NY Studio School, Parsons School of Design, NY Academy of Art, Art Students League -- drawing classes

LECTURES & INTERVIEWS
2019             - Politics & Prose, A Conversation With Love & Rockets' Jaime Hernandez on Is This How You See Me? (March 9)
2018             - National Arts Club, A Conversation about The Mighty Franks (April 11)
                      - CBC Radio, Day 6, 'Infinity Mirrors' and the changing face of art in the Instagram age (March 2) 
2017              - Lewis Carroll Society of North America Alice: What's in a Name slide lecture (Oct 28)
2015              - NPR On Point "Charlie Brown Is Back" (Oct.23)
                      - Breadbox (Catholic) Media, The Mike Allen Show "Why Charles Schulz Might Hate the Upcoming Movie (Oct 16)
2014             - NPR Weekend Edition "Kids' Films And Stories Share A Dark Theme: Dead Mothers ... " (July 13)
2008             - The Phillips Collection, Center for the Study of Modern Art, guest lecture on comics (Nov 17)
                      - Google (Cambridge), author’s talk on Ultimate Blogs (Aug 8)
                      - Society of National Association Publications, lecture on blogging (June 10) 
                      - New York Institute for the Humanities and Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, “Post Bang” panel (June 6)
                      - Columbia Journalism School, guest lecture on blogging and journalism (May 14) 
                      - Society of Professional Journalists, keynote, “The Ants Go Blogging” (April 12) 
                      - Denver Press Club, discussion about blogging and journalism (April 11) 
                      - Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The Book Show, radio interview (April 2)
                      - New Hampshire Public Radio, interview about Ultimate Blogs (March 2) 
                      - Harvard Bookstore, panel discussion about Ultimate Blogs (March 2) 
                      - New York University, Journalism Department, guest lecture on blogging and journalism (Feb 20)
                      - WNYC, The Leonard Lopate Show, "The Best of the Blogs" with Jennie Portnof & Alex Ross (Feb 18),  
                      - Barnes and Noble (Chelsea), panel with Alex Ross and Jennie Portnof (Feb 18) 
                      - NPR, Day to Day, interview about Ultimate Blogs (Feb 13)
2007             - NPR, Morning Edition, "The Big Book of Blogs," interview with Renee Montagne (Dec 25) 
2006             - Newark Art Museum, panel discussion on George Herriman’s “Krazy Kat,” with Stanley Crouch, Steven
                        Guarnaccia, Patrick McDonnell (Oct 29)
                      - Parsons/New School, Illustration Symposium, keynote lecture, “The Cat Makes the Man” (Nov 1)
2002             - San Francisco Art Institute, Art Writing Conference, keynote lecture “September 11: But Is It Art?”
2001             - American Psychoanalytic Association, Writers & Analysts: “Dr. Freud and Dr. Floyd” 
                      - NPR, “Whad’Ya Know,” radio interview about In the Floyd Archives 
                      - NY1, television interview about In the Floyd Archives
2000             - Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, conference on “The Unknowable”