I am a film scholar at the University of Iowa. My written work has been published by BCC Press, Utah Historical Quarterly, ProQuest, and Ampersand: An American Studies Journal; I have presented research at the Film Studies Association of Canada Graduate Colloquium, Second Sunday, and UIowa’s Rhetoric Colloquium; and I have co-hosted the post-religious podcast On the Other Side (in collaboration with the Open Stories Foundation) and have appeared on Pop Culture on the Apricot Tree and The Kindness Rebellion.

Most of my professional life has been spent teaching in some capacity. I spent a few years as a mentor and fine arts instructor at residential treatment centers; and have been working for several years (at Boston University and the University of Iowa) as a standalone instructor, as a Writing Center tutor, and as a teaching assistant (a job for which I was given an Outstanding TA Award by the university’s Council on Teaching).

I have also produced and co-hosted a series of educational videos, and edited various montages and video essays.

My undergraduate studies were in Psychology and Philosophy, my MFA at Boston University was in Film and Television Studies (I wrote my Master’s thesis on the American animator Don Hertzfeldt), and now at the University of Iowa (currently I’m a PhD candidate in Film Studies) I have conducted research on doppelgängers, digitality, documentary studies, Left Bank cinema, posthumanism, genre theory, epistolary aesthetics, collectivist ontology, and cinematic depictions of the afterlife. I am currently working on a dissertation about digital resurrection on screen.

You can download a PDF of my resume/CV here (updated October 2024).

And if you have a collaboration or project in mind, feel free to get in touch with me here!