SARAH BOXER

STAFF & NON-STAFF POSITIONS
2013-2018     Contributing Writer, The Atlantic and Photograph
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 of The New York Times
1989-1994     Preview editor, The New York Times 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 AND COMICS & ESSAYS IN BOOKS
2016             "A Map, A Tonic, A Shower Curtain," in the map anthology You Are Here, NYC: The Soul of the City 
2016             "Why Are All the Cartoon Mothers Dead" in Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing.
2012             "Ripped From the Headlines," in Shock of The News, a National Gallery of Art catalogue
2010             "George Herriman: The Cat in the Hat," in The Best American Comics Criticism
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

OTHER WORK 
2014-2017     Judge for The L.A. Times Book Prize (graphic novels and comics)
1984-2015     Contributor to Artforum, The Atlantic, The Comics Journal, the L.A. Review of Books, the New York
                       Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, Photograph, Slate, The Smithsonian, Washington Post  
1992-2018     Drawings and comics for the New York Review online, The New York Times Book Review, and
                       the Week in Review of The New York Times 
1997              "A Lewd Awakening," a comic in Dick for a Day
EDUCATION
1980               Harvard University, B.A. with honors in philosophy
1980s-1990s  NY Studio School, Parsons, NY Academy of Art, Art Students League -- drawing classes

LECTURES & INTERVIEWS
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 7)
                      - 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”

MEMBERSHIPS 
2006-2018    National Book Critics Circle (voting member)