Education

  • Ph.D. Literature Program, Duke University, Ongoing
  • M.A. University of Chicago, 2017
  • B.A. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2016

Films

  • instant of mourning, Tape/Digital, 4 minutes, Sound, 2023
  • Pantometrie: Nevada, 1867, Tape/Digital, 5 minutes, Sound, 2022
  • out of touch (franklinia still life), Tape/Digital, 4 minutes, Sound, 2022.
  • Invocations for Spring, Tape/Digital, 3 min, Sound, 2022.
  • Reservoir (Seven Fragments), Tape/Digital, 9 minutes, Sound, 2022.
  • Parergon, Tape/Digital, 6 min, Sound, 2021.

Screenings and Performances

  • aCinema – A New Wave Theory Program, Milwaukee, WI, 2023, Parergon.
  • San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, CA, 2023, out of touch (franklinia still life).
  • Transient Visions, Johnson City, NY, 2022, Invocations for Spring.
  • Kansas City Underground Film Festival, Kansas City, MO, 2022, Reservoir (Seven Fragments).
  • Perth International Film Festival, Perth, 2022, Reservoir (Seven Fragments).
  • Tune in to Green – Exhibition Seven, Online, 2022, Invocations for Spring.
  • Twin Rivers Media Festival, Asheville, NC, 2022, Parergon.
  • Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC, 2022, Parergon.
  • NTS Radio, Online, 2017, Closet Ecology, w/ Aaron Dowdy.

Publications

  • Articles
    • Co-authored w/ Aaron Dowdy. “The Edge of Linear Cinema.” Media Fields Journal 14 (2019).
    • “The Wasteful Semblances of David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis.” Film Matters 7.2 (2016).
  • Other Publications
    • “Performing Death: Derek Jarman’s Medial Blues.” four by three magazine (2017).
    • “Assemblages for After the Judgment: Cy Twombly’s Coming Community.” four by three magazine (2017).
    • “Traces of Postindian Survivance: Two Short Films by Jeff Barnaby.” Film International (2016).

Conferences and Invited Talks

  • Invited Talks
    • Co-presented w/ Aaron Dowdy. “The Lines of Fernand Deligny’s Le Moindre Geste.” Film in Theory, Duke University. 2018.
  • Conferences
    • “Timothy O’Sullivan, Interpretive Excess, and the Western Landscape.” World Picture. 2022.
    • “The Ecological Modernism of John Ford.” SCMS. 2022.
    • “Envisioning Extraction: Timothy O’Sullivan and the Geological Survey.” SLSA. 2021.
    • “The Lines of Cinema: Deleuze and Artaud.” SCMS. 2021.
    • “Organicism and Cinema: Busby Berkeley.” World Picture. 2019.
    • “An Accidental Cinema: Robert Aldrich’s Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” SCMS. 2019.
    • Co-presented w/ Aaron Dowdy. “Twentieth Century Lines: An Image of Sensual Form.” Sensing Media, University of Chicago. 2018.
    • “Medial Conversations.” MAPH Works in Progress. 2017.

Awards and Fellowships

  • Graduate Student Training Grant, 2022
  • Summer Research Fellowship, 2019; 2020; 2021
  • University of Chicago M.A. Thesis Award in the Humanities, 2017
  • VCU Award for Excellence in World Cinema, 2016
  • VCU Dean Scholarship, 2012-2016
  • VCU Out-of-State Scholarship, 2012-2016

Teaching and Professional Experience

  • Program Assistant, Screen/Society at Duke University, 2022
  • Festival Assistant, Cosmic Rays Film Festival, 2022
  • Primary Instructor, “Cinematic Environments,” Duke
    University, Spring 2022
  • Secretary, “Film Philosophy” Scholarly Interest Group, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), 2019-2022
  • Teaching Assistant, “Introduction to Digital Culture,” Primary Instructor: Prof. Luciana Parisi, Program in Literature, Duke University, Fall 2021
  • Teaching Assistant, “Social Movements/Social Media,” Primary Instructor: Prof. Negar Mottahedeh, Program in Literature, Duke University, Spring 2021
  • Teaching Assistant, “Bad Behavior,” Primary Instructor: Prof. Nima Bassiri, Program in Literature, Duke University, Fall 2020
  • Teaching Assistant, “Understanding Mediation,” Primary Instructor: Prof. Markos Hadjioannou, Program in Literature, Duke University, Spring 2020
  • Teaching Assistant, “Narrative and Ideology,” Primary Instructor: Prof. Fredric Jameson, Program in Literature, Duke University, Fall 2019
  • Research Assistant, Prof. Markos Hadjioannou, Program in Literature, Duke University, Fall 2018-Spring 2019
  • Research Assistant, Prof. Mark Hansen, Program in Literature, Duke University, Spring, 2019
  • President of CinemaTalk, Cine-club at Virginia Commonwealth University, 2014-2016
  • Intern, Richmond French Film Festival, Spring 2015.