Achieved Degrees

• Cinema Studies, San Francisco State University, 2020
• History, Washington State University, 2015

Interests

• Genre cinema
• horror games
• digital aesthetics
• hauntology

Academic Awards

• UWM Chancellor’s Graduate Student Award, 2022-23
• SFSU Provost Scholar Award, 2019-20

Selected Publications

• “Fast Forwarding the Past (on Pause),” The Velvet Light Trap 90 no.1, (2022).
• “Digital Identity Assemblage in Audiovisual Cyberpunk Spaces,” Cinemedia: Journal of SFSU School of Cinema, (2020).
• “Vaporwave: Aesthetics of Memory and Nostalgia of An Artificially Constructed Time and Space,” Cinemedia: Journal of SFSU School of Cinema, (2019).

Selected Conference Presentations

• “Free From Fear: Affective Mood in Horror Game Live Stream Communities,” Be-Twitching Scholarship: Power, Action, and Live Streaming: 2023. Online Conference.
• “Reimagining the Western Gunslinger and Gender Roles in The Last of Us Part II (2020)” Console-ing Passions: 2022. University of Central Florida.
• “‘Will you be goin back, Miss? Or pressin on?’: Women in the American West, Loneliness, and Relationships in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” 21st Annual Cinema Studies Graduate Student Association October 17-18, 2019. San Francisco State University.

Teaching Experience

• English 101: Introduction to College Writing
• Film Studies 205: History of Film 1
• Cinema 212: Film History II
• Cinema 325:1-3: The Star as Author: Marilyn Monroe, Focus on French New Wave, Focus on Hitchcock
• Cinema 341: Critical Studies: Film Theory
• Cinema 344: Film Genre – Focus on Melodrama
• Cinema 344: Film Genre: The Screwball Comedy
• Cinema 345: Auteur Cinema: Martin Scorsese and William Friedkin
• Cinema 650-1-3: Filmmaking Master Class with Caveh Zahedi, Christopher Münch, and Pete Nicks