Bri Noonan
bnoona4@uic.edu ● www.briananoonan.com
EDUCATION
University of Illinois, PhD, Disability Studies, Expected Completion: May 2029
Arizona State University, MA, Social and Cultural Pedagogy, May 2021
Arizona State University, Graduate Certificate, Disability Studies, May 2021
Arizona State University, BFA, Photography, May 2013
RELATED PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Disability in American Film (DHD 102), University of Illinois, Chicago, Disability Studies Department, 08/2023 - present
● Grades journals and assignments throughout the semester including additional work such as the Field Trip and Final Exam.
● Proficient user of Blackboard to grade and engage with students.
● Collaborates successfully with faculty supervisor, head teaching assistant, and teaching assistant team throughout semester at weekly meetings and as needed to ensure success of the students.
Engages with students to assist in their understanding of course materials and success in the course.
Facilitates two weekly discussion sections for undergraduate students that require lesson planning based on course materials.
Graduate Hourly Employee, Bodies of Work, University of Illinois, Chicago, Disability Studies Department, 08/2023 - present
● Engages with disability art, culture and humanities programs throughout the year.
● Collaborates successfully with BOW staff and BOW student team to access doula, assist in programming in a variety of ways, facilitate curriculum, and attend meetings as a team.
Seize the Moment Public Engagement Program Coordinator, Arizona State University, Humanities Lab, Leonardo Initiative, Global Futures Lab, 03/2022 - 07/ 2023
● Coordinates programming to meet the Seize the Moment mission which is to address the challenges of the current moment through transdisciplinary collaborations in the arts, sciences, humanities, and technology in pedagogy, research, and public engagement.
● Oversees and coordinates the following programs: Amplifier Mini Grants, Faculty Research Seed Grants, Leonardo Liftoff Program.
● Facilitates and produces the narrative of the initiative in collaboration with the Humanities Lab, Leonardo, and Global Futures Lab on all programming needs both for internal programs and external collaborations in the university and in community.
Femme Fotale: A Women’s Photography Publication, Co-founder and project coordinator 09/2015-03/2018
● Curates and organizes photographic exhibitions and events.
● Publishes a photographic book annually.
● Establishes a community for women in the arts.
● Teaches and facilitates photographic workshops and critiques.
PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCES
4th Annual Symposium for Disability and Accessibility at Yale, Conference Roundtable, April 2025, Access as Praxis: A conversation between disability arts and culture practitioners
Women and Gender Studies Consortium: Embodying Feminism: Calling In, Calling Out, Calling to Action, April 2025, Cripistemological Poetics: Capturing our Ingenious Ways of Being and Becoming
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Conference Screening and Discussion, February 2025, Code of the Freaks
Guest Lecturer, University of Chicago Illinois, Disability in American Film, Fall 2024
National Women's Studies Association, Conference Panelist, Sponsored Disability Panel, Oct. 2023
Cripping the Dance Score: Intersectional Reimaginings through Radical Care
Guest Lecturer, SAIC, Thesis Course, Fall 2023
National Women's Studies Association, Conference Panelist, Nov. 2022
Caring For, Caring About, Caring With: A Critical Survey of Queer, Disabled Methodologies Guest Lecturer, ASU, Justice Studies 500: Research Methods, Fall 2021
Keynote Speaker, ASU ZineFest, Queer Chronically Ill Artists. Zines- and Arts-Based Research: What lives at the Intersection of Chronic Illness, Queerness, and Art-Making. Spring 2021
Guest Lecturer, ASU, Barrett Honors College 394, The History of (Radical) Zines, Spring 2021 Panel Organizer & Moderator, Queer Panel, Phoenix ZineFest 2019
PUBLICATIONS
Exploring Sexuality and Disability: A guide for academics and health and human service professionals. Exploring a methodology of care: Creating research with disabled queer individuals and community, Routledge
Issue Two: Rebirth & Renewal, Humankind Zine, Digital Zine, November 2020
An Apology Letter from My Chronic Illness, Self Published Zine, December 2019
In My Hands, Self Published Book, March 2019
Inspiration, Volume I, contributing author & co-editor, Femme Fotale, 2015
Relationships, Volume II, contributing author & co-editor, Femme Fotale, 2016
Alternative Processes, Volume III, contributing author & co-editor, Femme Fotale, 2016
The Body, Volume IV, contributing author & co-editor, Femme Fotale, 2017
Resistance/Resilience/Hope, Volume V, contributing author & co-editor, Femme Fotale, 2017
Health, Volume VI, contributing author & co-editor, Femme Fotale, 2018
ARTICLES ABOUT BRIANA NOONAN
When Art, Queerness, and Chronic Illness Intersect: An Interview with Bri Noonan The Revolution Relaunch, 12/2020
Femme Fotale Brings Femme-Identifying Photographers into Focus, State Press, 09/2017
ASU Photography Student Captures Evolving Family Relationships State Press, 09/2012
Feminist Art Collective, 2017
Femme Fotale Show "Girl's Imprint" Examines Fragility, Intimacy Through Women's Lens State Press 03/2016
Femme Fotale Gives Women and Gender Non-Conforming People A Platform to Share Their Views, Echo Magazine, 1/2019
ART EXHIBITIONS
Dunning: An exhibition exploring the history of Cook County’s Insane Asylum, Invocation: Hereditary Hauntings, The Center for Mad Culture, Chicago, IL, November 2024
The Threat of Dissent, Walter Where?House, Phoenix, AZ, February 2022
Ain’t Bad Magazine, Online Feature, 06/2018
We Are Family, Visual Arts Workshop & Image Out, Rochester, NY, October 2017 *3rd Place Juror’s Award Visual Studies Workshop & Image Out, Rochester, NY
Open-Ended, The Hive, Phoenix, AZ, August 2017
Nasty, Noisy, Knitting, and Naked Women, Fine Art Complex, AZ, February 2017 At the Intersection of Memory and Conjecture, Northlight Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, March 2017 Self: The Realization of Autonomy, The Liquor Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, June 2016
LAMBS, The Drive-Thru, Phoenix AZ, December 2013
Family Portraits: The Demography of Us, Eye Lounge, Phoenix AZ, November 2013
Emerge, Art Intersection, Gilbert AZ, 2013
Arcanum, First Studio, Phoenix AZ, 2013
Undergrad Juried Exhibition, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe AZ, 2013
Juried Exhibition, Northlight Gallery, Tempe AZ, 2013
Luminant, Gallery 100, Tempe AZ, November 2012
Out of Square, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe AZ, November 2012
Outrageous Fortune, Juried Online Periodical, 2012
Confluence of the Uncanny and Mundane Juried Exhibition, Northlight Gallery, Tempe AZ, 2012 Silent Auction, First Studio, Phoenix AZ, 2012
Two Fold, First Studio, Phoenix AZ, 2012
Split, Step Gallery, Tempe AZ, September 2012 (Solo Show)
EQUITY RELATED WORK PROJECTS & TRAININGS
Sidney Poitier New American Film School Justice, Diversity, Equity &
Inclusion Committee 2021 - 2022 LGBTQIA+ Safezone Trained 2017 - 2022 Sidney Poitier New American Film School Vision & Bylaw Committee 2020- 2021 Sidney Poitier New American Film School Bylaw Committee 2021- 2021 School of Music, Dance, & Theatre Admin Staff Working Agreement 2021 - 2021 School of Music, Dance & Theatre Opportunities for Transformation Workshops 2020 - 2020
Preferred Name Project: Registrar’s Office 2018 - 2019
HUES LGBTQ+ Mentoring Program 2018 - 2019
*ASU Catalyst Award for Mentors in the HUES LGBTQ+ Mentoring Program