teaching.

Courses I’m teaching this academic year:

For the fall 2024 semester, I’m teaching two courses: introduction to cinema studies and “Documentary and Nonfiction Storytelling,” a course that surveys nonfiction film history by centering works that prompt reflection on documentary politics and its fraught relationship to truth. In spring 2025, I will likely be teaching a lecture course on contemporary global women filmmakers and an upper-level seminar called ‘The Netflix Effect’ that considers the discourse of technological disruption and uses the popular streaming platform as a locus for studying global media infrastructures, algorithmic culture, media regulation, and presumed changes to media viewership, among others.

Courses I’ve previously taught:

I regularly teach courses on documentary and nonfiction media, women and media, film history, and the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster. I’ve also taught courses on contemporary global cinema, American ‘indie’ film, adaptation, race and ethnicity in U.S. media, travel cinemas, and an assortment of film genres (action, horror, sci-fi).

Special topics courses I’m especially eager to teach:

I’m eager to teach more specialized courses on documentary, useful cinema, media historiography, histories of media access, and media activism. Inspired by the success of the Barbie movie in 2023, I’d also relish the opportunity to teach an interdisciplinary course that surveys the history, politics, and reception of the doll as media icon from the 1950s to the present.

Where I’ve taught:

Bowdoin College, Brooklyn College, Hofstra University, Hunter College, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College