CURRENT POSITION
Assistant Professor, Core Division, Champlain College (2011 – present)
EDUCATION
PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities – Media Studies, Florida State University (May 2010)
MA in Interdisciplinary Humanities – Modernity, Florida State University (April 2005)
BA in English and Fine Art, Stetson University (May 2002)
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
Graduate Certificate in Digital Video Production, Florida State University (2008)
Graduate Certificate in Editing and Publishing, Florida State University (2006)
PUBLICATIONS (by date)
“Nine Inch Nails’ Year Zero and the Biopolitics of Media Convergence.” The Politics of Post-9/11 Music: Sound, Trauma, and the Music Industry in the Time of Terror. Eds. Joseph P. Fisher and Brian Flota. Farnum: Ashgate, 2011.
“Total Immersion and the Total Screen: The Simulated and Screened Realities of Video Games.” Simulation in Media and Culture: Believing the Hype. Ed. Robin DeRosa. Lanham: Lexington, 2011.
“Does the Costume Make the Superhero?” Online posting. 15 June 2011. In Medias Res: A Media Commons Project.
Rev. of Displacing Place: Mobile Communication in the Twenty-first Century, ed. by Sharon Kleinman. Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (November 2009).
“Politics and Activism.” LGBTQ America Today: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. Ed. John C. Hawley. Westwood: Greenwood Press, 2009. 3 vols. 911-12.
“The Screen as Frame.” Papers from the 2009 NCA Convention “Discourses of Stability and Change.” CD-ROM. Washington DC: National Communication Association, 2009.
“Urban Screen as Virtual Counterpoint.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge. 17 (December 2008).
“Introduction: Resonances of War.” InterCulture. 5.3 (October 2008): 164-65.
“Introduction: The Fear of Forgetting.” InterCulture. 5.2 (June 2008): 71-3.
“Introduction: Notes on the Front.” InterCulture. 5.1 (January 2008): 4-6.
“Between Closure and Contingency: Approaching Utopia in Mirtyu Dand (1997) and Main Hoon Na (2004).” Papers from the 2007 NCA Convention “Communicating World-views: Faith, Intellect, Ethics.” CD-ROM. Washington DC: National Communication Association, 2007.
“Creating the ‘Other’ in A Clockwork Orange.” Papers from the 2005 NCA Convention “The Health of the Discipline.” CD-ROM. Washington DC: National Communication Association, 2005.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (refereed)
“Negotiating the Possibilities and Limitations of Navigable Space in Contemporary American Cinema.” Navigating Cinematic Space. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Ritz Carlton Hotel, New Orleans. 10 March 2011.
“River’s Gift: The Production of the Affective Body in Firefly and Serenity.” Firefly and Serenity 1. The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses 4. Flagler College, St. Augustine. 4 June 2010.
“The Screen as Frame.” Media Ecology Meets the 21st Century. National Communication Association Convention. Palmer House Hilton, Chicago. 14 November 2009.
“Screen Works: Biopolitical and Aesthetic Possibilities in Nine Inch Nails’ Lights in the Sky Tour.” Visual Culture I: Technology and New Media in Visual Culture. Popular Culture Association. New Orleans Marriott, New Orleans. 8 April 2009.
“Aerie Tuesdays on the CW.” Gender and Media Studies IV. Popular Culture Association. San Francisco Marriott, San Francisco. 21 March 2008.
“Between Closure and Contingency: Approaching Utopia in Mirtyu Dand (1997) and Main Hoon Na (2004).” Framing Asian and Asian American Issues in Media and Public Discourses. National Communication Association Convention. Chicago Hilton, Chicago. 16 November 2007.
“Creating the ‘Other’ in A Clockwork Orange.” Violence and Psychoanalysis. National Communication Association Convention. Sheraton, Boston. 20 November 2005.
“From Site to Screen: Urban Screen Sites and the Production of Posthuman Landscapes.” Reception. 40th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium “On Collecting: Formation, Transmission, Reception.” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. 28 October 2005.
Co-authored with Caroline (Kay) Picart. “Sexuality, Historicity and Meaning in Holocaust Films.” Myth, History, Genre, Gender, Sexuality and Humor in Representations of the Holocaust. FSU Film and Literature Conference. Turnbull Conference Center, Tallahassee. 30 January 2003.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses Taught at Champlain College (2011 – present):
“Concepts of the Self”
“Aesthetic Expressions”
Courses Taught at Florida State University (2003 – 2011):
“Communications Geography”
“New Media in Theory and Practice”
“Television and Culture”
“Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque Humanities”
“Modern Humanities”
“Multicultural Film and American Culture”
(received David Darst Award for Excellence in Teaching in Humanities)
