Postdoctoral Associate
Education
- BA in Humanities, University of South Florida, 2014
- MA in Humanities, University of South Florida, 2018
- PhD in English, University of Florida, 2025
Courses Taught
- ENC2256: Writing in the Disciplines
- ENC2305: Analytical Writing and Thinking
- ENC3246: Professional Communication for Engineers
- ENC3252: Writing for Strategic Communication
- ENG2300: Film Analysis
Pedagogical and Research Interests
- Writing for the humanities, Writing as a social practice, Critical thinking, Interpretation, Close reading
- 20th and 21st century cinema, Television, Political economy, Technology, Spatial theory, Periodization, Historicism, Modernism, Postmodernism
Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
- “Deconstructing an Evil Fakeness: Digital Media and Truth in Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler”
- Excursions Journal 9:1 (December 2019)
- “Diving into Andrew’s Brain: Trauma and Existential Crisis”
- The CEA Critic 81.3 (November 2019)
Edited Collections:
- “The Failures of Journalism and Media (Un)Certainty After 9/11 in David Fincher’s Zodiac”
- ReFocus: The Films of David Fincher, edited by Keith Clavin, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (accepted)
- “Pushing Through Networks and Media Spaces in Stranger Things”
- American Science Fiction Television and Space: Production and (Re)configurations (1987-2021), edited by Joel Hawkes, Alexander Christie, and Thomas Nienhaus, London: Palgrave Macmillan (Spring 2023)
Book Reviews
- “J.P. Telotte, ed. The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas”
- Utopian Studies: The Journal for the Society for Utopian Studies (accepted)
- “Review of Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation”
- ImageTexT 13.2 (Spring 2022), https://imagetextjournal.com/review-of-pulses-of-abstraction-episodes-from-a-history-of-animation/