EDUCATION
Ph.D., Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago, 2018
B.F.A., Film Production, SUNY Purchase College, 2010, summa cum laude
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2020-Present Florida Atlantic University, Director, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
2018-Present Florida Atlantic University, Assistant Professor, School of Communications and Multimedia Studies
2013-2018 University of Chicago, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Cinema and Media Studies
PRESENTATIONS
International Conferences
“The Monster by the Pool: Frankenstein’s Monster and the Posthuman Potential of Selfie Aesthetics,” SymbioticA, University of Western Australian, Perth, Western Australia, October 2018.
“Meanwhile, Later, A Little Earlier: Digital Queer Archival Possibilities Through Shea Couleé’s Lipstick City (2016),” Archival (Re)mediations: Videographic Criticism and the Exploration of Film as Archive, Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, Toronto, March 2018.
“Alt Media, Alternative Documentation: Social Media and Trans Politics,” Documenting the Different Body, Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Montreal, March 2015.
Domestic Conferences
“Bending the Bars: Sex, Love, and Censorship in Queer Prison Comics,” Chair and Panelist, Policing Porn: Archives, Censorship, and Materiality Amid the Security State and Mass Incarceration, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL, March-April 2022.
“No One Is Disposable: Ecofeminism and Climate Crisis,” Panelist with co-author Daniella Orias, 50 Years of GWSS: The Story Across Borders, Ranks, and Institutions via an Open-Access Zine, National Women’s Studies Association annual conference, fully online, Fall 2021 [postponed from 2020].
“A Scandal in Seriality: Heterosexuality in Elementary and Sherlock,” Panelist, Videographic Television Studies, Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, fully online, March 2021.
“Holographic Epistemology: Detection in Three-Dimensions,” Participant, Seminar on Ghosts, Holobionts, and Superorganisms., Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, Denver, CO, April 2020 [postponed].
“Addressed and Interpellated: The Selves Pronouns Construct,” Panelist, Embodying Disobedience, Crafting Affinities, South Eastern Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, March 2020 [cancelled].
“Pronouns, Protest, and Policy: The Worlds Pronouns Create,” Panel Organizer and Presenter, National Women’s Studies Association annual conference, San Fransisco, CA, November 2019.
“‘I Never Cared Until I Met You:’ Affective Labor, Transition, and Selfhood on YouTube,” Panelist, Affective Labor, Sexual Stories, Digital Authenticity, and Queer Media, Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, Seattle, WA, March 2019.
“Whose Self in the Selfie?: Posthuman, Networked Selves in Selfies and Self-portraits,” Arts of the Self: Selfies, Self-Portraits, and Contemporary Art, The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 9, Berkeley, CA, October 2017.
“Captioning the Selfie: Image and Text in DarkMatter's Online Activism,” Co-Chair and Panelist: Know Thyself(ie): Image, Self, Representation, Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, Chicago, IL, March 2017.
“The Look Back: Subverting the Medicalization and Objectification of the Trans Body in Transparent,” Transparent: A Multidisciplinary Symposium, Susan B. Anthony Institute, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, December 2016.
“Selfie Seriality,” & Media Conference, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, September 2016.
“Trans Consultants: Aesthetics of Authenticity and Compromise,” Co-Chair and Panelist: Troubling Trans Media: Fact, Fiction, & Compromise, Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, Atlanta, GA, March 2016.
“Doubling Up: Queering the Mirror Stage in Drucker and Ernst’s Relationship Series,” Queertopia, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, May 2015.
“Diverging from Doubt: Identity in Divergent (2014) in the Selfie Era,” Fun With Dick and Jane: Gender and Childhood, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, December 2014.
Invited Talks
“Borders, Boundaries, Frames: Posthuman Intimacies in Selfie Aesthetics,” Visual Culture Workshop, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, September 2017.
Conferences Organized
Ethical XR: A Symposium, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, February 2020.
Performing Bodies: Gesture, Affect, and Embodiment on Screen, Department of Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of Chicago, April 17-18, 2015. Screening curation and introductory remarks.
Florida Atlantic University Presentations
“Stonewall: The Continued Fight for Justice,” Office of LGBTQ Initiatives and Allyship, Florida Atlantic University, June 2020.
“Guiding the Reader: Organizing Strategies for Body Paragraphs,” School of Communication and Multimedia Studies Graduate Program, February 2020.
“Hooking the Reader: Effective Introductions,” School of Communication and Multimedia Studies Graduate Program, January 2020.
Presenter, “Dressed (to Look) to (Get) Kill(ed),” Center for Body, Mind, and Culture Coffee Colloquium, Boca Raton, FL, October 2019.
Presenter, “Sonic Minstrelsy: Jon Batiste as Acousmetre on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” SCMS Faculty Colloquium, Boca Raton, FL, March 2019.
Panel Chair, “Global Identities and Cinephilias,” From the Grassroots to the Global: 9th International Small Cinemas Conference, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, November 2018.
University of Chicago Presentations
“The Image of Life and #LifeItself: Porous Boundaries and Posthuman Intimacies in Selfie Aesthetics,” presentation at the Sound and Society Workshop, University of Chicago, February 2018.
“‘Because of You, I Know that I Exist’: Doubling in Selfie Aesthetics,” presentation at the Mass Culture Workshop, University of Chicago, May 2017.
“Selfies at Play: Activism & Identity Exploration in Zinnia Jones’ Self-Portraits,” presentation at the Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop, University of Chicago, October 2015.