Katy Lake

Scholarship in print

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and public writing

My published work moves across feminist theory, visual culture, and the politics of art-making — with particular attention to how images circulate, how bodies are represented, and how creative practice constitutes a form of knowledge.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • Lake, K. (2026). Faith, Fandom, and the Flesh: LaChapelle's Kitsch Canon of Contemporary Saints. God Loves Kitsch, Routledgeforthcoming

  • Lake, K. (2025). We Belong to This Land: Street Art, Displacement, and Decolonial Feminist Praxis. Painting the Town: A Conference on the Philosophy of Street Art, Georgia State Universityconference paper

  • Lake, K. (2017). A Fictional Inaugural Address: America's Reality Plot Twist. Rock & Sling: A Journal of Witness, Whitworth University, 3(2), 26–29.Spring 2017

  • Lake, K. (2017). Where is your Identity?: A Review of Twenty-Two New Asian Short Stories. Chaos: IUB Studies in Language, Literature and Creative Writing, Independent University, Bangladesh, 4(1), 65–67.Summer 2017

  • Lake, K. (2016). Distinguishing Whether the Emperor is Indeed Clothed: Revolutionizing the Classroom by Creating an Environment of Controversial Questioning Rather than Nodding in Conformity to the Dictates of Power Structures. Education in the Current World: Pedagogy, Research, and Social Change, International Conference on Teaching and Learning Conference Proceeding, 267–274.September 2016

  • Lake, K. (2015). Designing Thematically Integrated Courses to Accentuate Multiple Intelligence Styles and Optimize Advanced Language Acquisition. Chaos: IUB Studies in Language, Literature and Creative Writing, Independent University, Bangladesh, 3(2), 13–21.Autumn 2015

Book Publications

  • Lake, K. (2012). Extremely Visual & Incredibly Communal: Trauma, Multimodality, and 9/11 Literature. Lambert Academic Publishing.

Works in Progress

  • Images Out of Place: Transversive Reclamation and the Politics of Art Across Borders

  • Motherhood and Its Shadows: Maternal Ambivalence in Elena Knows and Burnt Sugar