M.A. English: Media, Cinema and Digital Studies, UW-Milwaukee, 2018;
B.S. Communicating Arts: Video Production, Cultural Theory, UW-Superior, 2010
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.
Interests
Documentary Studies,
Archival or Found Footage Filmmaking Practices,
Body-Worn Cameras and Police Surveillance,
Images as Historical Evidence
Academic Awards
Distinguished Dissertator Fellowship, 2023-2024;
James A. Sappenfield Fellowship, 2020-2021;
Chancellor's Award, 2017-2018
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.
Teaching Experience
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