teaching.

Courses I’m teaching this academic year:

For the fall 2025 semester, I’m teaching two courses: a global film history (to 1960) and “Documentary and Nonfiction Storytelling,” a course that surveys nonfiction film history by centering works that prompt reflection on documentary politics and its fraught relationship to truth. In spring 2026, I will likely be teaching introduction to film, film theory, and a post-1960 film history survey.

Courses I’ve previously taught:

I regularly teach courses on documentary and nonfiction media, women and media, film history, and the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster. I’ve also taught courses on Netflix and media disruption, contemporary global cinema, American ‘indie’ film, adaptation, race and ethnicity in U.S. media, travel cinemas, and an assortment of film genres (action, horror, sci-fi, etc.).

Special topics courses I’m especially eager to teach:

I’m always game to design new courses! In the future, I plan to develop more specialized courses on documentary, useful cinema, media historiography, and histories of media access and technology. I’d also love to teach a course on global film noir! Inspired by the success of the Barbie movie in 2023, I’d also relish the opportunity to teach an interdisciplinary seminar that surveys the history, politics, and reception of the doll as media icon from the 1950s to the present.

Where I’ve taught:

I am currently Assistant Professor of Film in the Department of Communication, Media, Journalism, and Film at Missouri State University. I have previously taught courses at Bowdoin College, Brooklyn College, Hofstra University, Hunter College, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College