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- Teaching Assistant - Dissertator, English
Education
- MA, English: Media, Cinema and Digital Studies, UW-Milwaukee, 2018
- BS, Communicating Arts: Video Production, Cultural Theory, UW-Superior, 2010
Courses Taught
- Film Studies 206: History of Film II: Development of an Art, 1945-Present
- Film Studies 205: History of Film I: Development of an Art, 1895-1945
- Film Studies 111: Introduction to Entertainment Arts: Film, Television, Internet
- English 102: College Writing and Research
- English 101: Introduction to College Writing
Research Interests
- Documentary Studies,
- Archival or Found Footage Filmmaking Practices,
- Body-Worn Cameras and Police Surveillance,
- Images as Historical Evidence
Related Activities
- Chancellor’s Award, UW-Milwaukee, 2017-2018
- Communicating Arts Outstanding Scholar Award, UW-Superior, 2010
Recent Research Presentations
- “Looking at Police Body-Worn Camera Footage as Documentary Evidence.” Mass Culture Workshop, University of Chicago, IL, December 2023.
- “Found Footage in the Post-Truth Era: Re-evaluating the Evidentiary Role of Archival Images in The Dead Nation (2017).” Visible Evidence, Frankfurt, HE, December 2021.
- “Home Movies as Historical Evidence in Abigail Child’s The Future is Behind You (2004).” Migrating Archives of Reality, Prague, CZ, May 2021.
- “Unstable Historical Evidence: The Battle of the Somme (1916) and the Contested Meanings of Archival War Images.” Society for Cinema & Media Studies, Seattle, WA, March 2019.
Biographical Sketch
Academic Awards
- Distinguished Dissertator Fellowship, 2023-2024;
- James A. Sappenfield Fellowship, 2020-2021;
- Chancellor's Award, 2017-2018
Selected Publications
“‘True’ Crime and the Appropriation of State-Recorded Surveillance Images in American Murder: The Family Next Door (2020).” Jump Cut 62 (January 2024).
“Virtual Looking: Home Movies as Historical Evidence in The Future Is Behind You (Abigail Child, 2004).” Iluminace 34, no. 1 (September 2022): 73-90.
“Necessarily Problematic: Archival Looking in Arthur Jafa’s Love is the Message, the Message is Death (2016).” Film Criticism 46, no. 1 (June 2022).
“Indictment and Possibility in Ken Jacobs’ Star Spangled to Death.” Found Footage 5 (March 2019): 68-77.