Office Hours
Monday, Wednesday 1-2:30 pm or by appointment
Education
PhD, Indiana University
MA, Indiana University
BA, Columbia University
Research Interests
U.S. cinema and screen culture, media history and criticism, cultural studies
Publications
Books
Surface Encounters: Screen Materials and Film Culture (University of Illinois Press, Forthcoming March 2027)
Soundies Jukebox Films and the Shift to Small Screen Culture (Rutgers University Press, May 2018)
Journal Articles
“Close Encounters: In-Between Screens and the Materialities of COVID-Era Exhibition” Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture, 9. No 2 (June 2024).
“Bedsheet Cinema: The Materiality of the Segregating Screen” Film History (Fall 2019) 31.3, 1-26
“A Revolution in the Atmosphere: The Dynamics of Site and Screen in 1940s Soundies” Cinema Journal (Winter 2015) Vol. 54, No. 2, 72-93
“From Attraction to Distraction: The Panoram Machine and Emerging Modes of Multi-Sited Screen Consumption” Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies (2014) Vol. 28, No. 3, 330–341
“Be(ing) More” than Television: the PBS Brand as Post-Network TV” Spectator 28:1 (2008), 29-39
Book Chapters
“Mobilizing the Moving Image: Movie Machines at U.S. Military Bases and Veteran Hospitals during WWII,” Cinema’s Military Industrial Complex, ed. Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson (University of California Press, 2018), 44-60.
Courses Taught
- Introduction to Film Studies
- American Film Genres
- Race and U.S. Film History
- Film Authors
- Screen Cultures
- Qualitative Research Methods in Communication