education

PhD // University of Toronto, Art History // 2019
M.A. // University of Chicago, Master of Arts Program in the Humanities // 2008
B.A. // Princeton, Classics // 2005

teaching appointments

Course Lecturer, McGill University, Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Winter 2024.Trans*Feminisms. See Trans*Feminisms Syllabus, 2024.

Course Lecturer, McGill University, Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Summer 2023.Feminist & Social Justice Studies. See Feminist & Social Justice Studies Syllabus.

Course Lecturer, McGill University, Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Winter 2022.Trans*Feminisms. See Trans*Feminisms Syllabus, 2022.

Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto Mississauga, Visual Studies Department
Spring 2017, Spring 2018. Art Since 1945. Course Instructor: Nikolina Kurtovic.

Teaching Assistant. University of Toronto, Department of Art History
Fall 2017. Arts & Ideas: Beauty. Course Instructor: Christy Anderson.

Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto, Faculty of Information
Fall 2013, Fall 2016. Archives Concepts and Issues. Course Instructor: Heather MacNeil.
Fall 2015. Museums and Cultural Heritage: Context and Critical Issues. Course Instructor: Cara Krmpotich.
Spring 2015. Exhibition Project. Course Instructor: Matthew Brower.
Spring 2013. Research Methods. Course Instructor: Alan Galey.

Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto Mississauga, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information Technology
Summer 2013, Spring 2014. The Rhetoric of Digital and Interactive Media Environments. Course Instructors: Rhonda McEwen, Michael Dick.

publications

Litvack, Calev. “Recollecting Trans Lineages.” This Magazine, January-February Issue, 2024, pp. 12–13.

Litvack, C. “Amended Transcription of Notes Dated 2/8/21 & 3/1/21.” Who Do You Think You Are, knife | fork | book, 2022, pp. 20–22.

Litvack, C. "Exhibition Review: Ame Henderson's rehearsal/performance at The Art Gallery of Ontario". Archivaria 79, 2015.

Litvack, C. "Book Review: Performing Archives/Archives of Performance, edited by Gunhild Borggreen and Rune Gade". Archivaria 78, 2014.

exhibitions

Zine-Making & Queer Politics, Zine Exhibition, Curator. The Centre for Gender Advocacy, Montreal, QC. Sept. 13-30, 2022.

presentations

Publishing & Queer Publics, Panel with Oliver Fugler (Metonymy Press), Faith Paré (Atwater Poetry Project), and Ash Williams (Mountain Area Abortion Doula Collective). The Centre for Gender Advocacy, Montreal, QC. Sept. 16, 2022.

MORE: Sex and the Contemporary Novel, Symposium. Public Conversation with novelist Garth Greenwell. Toronto, ON. Oct. 22, 2018.

Society for Textual Scholarship, Conference. “The Work of Double Game: Sophie Calle and Paul Auster’s Archive of Textual Embodiment.” Seattle, WA. March 20-22, 2014.

DOCAM ’13: Annual Meeting of the Document Academy. “The Temporality of Performance Art Documents: An Experiential Case Study of MAI Prototype.” Tromsø, Norway. June 19-22, 2013.

Canadian Association for Theatre Research, Conference. “Exploring the Temporality of Performance Documentation through the Cunningham Dance Foundation’s Legacy Plan.” Victoria, BC. June 1-4, 2013.

workshops & activities

Trans, Non-binary, and Two-Spirit Poetics, Reading Workshop hosted by the Centre for Gender Advocacy. September-December 2022. Facilitator.

Who Do You Think You Are, Autotheory Workshop hosted by knife fork book. February-May 2021. Participant in a 10-week writing workshop, culminating in a limited-run, collective publication.

Reading to Decolonize, January-March 2021. Participant in a reading group centered on the essay collection Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action in and Beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, edited by Dylan Robinson.

Sex, Ethics, and Extinction, Academic Retreat convened by Prof. John Paul Ricco, October 8, 2017-October 16, 2017. Participant.

The Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, Jackman Humanities Institute Working Group 2014-15. September 2014-May 2015. Participant.

research assistance & professional service

Research Assistant, University of Toronto, Department of English
Sep. 2014 - Jan. 2015. Supervisor: Randall MacLeod, Professor Emeritus

Research Assistant, University of Toronto Mississauga, Visual Studies Department
Jan. 2014 - May 2014. Supervisor: John Paul Ricco, Associate Professor

Reviewer, Transgender Studies Quarterly (TSQ). October 2021 - Present.

additional training

Toronto Metropolitan University Publishing Certificate Program. Toronto, ON. Sep. 2008-Dec. 2009.

CUNY Latin/Greek Institute, Summer Intensive in Attic Greek. New York, NY. June 2003-Aug. 2003.

research funding & distinctions

SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2014-2017.
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2014-15. Declined due to concurrent SSHRC funding.
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2013-14.
School of Graduate Studies Conference Grant, June 2013.
Canadian Association for Information Science Best Student Paper Award, June 2013.