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Teaching Philosophy
As a scholar of media, I help students develop critical awareness about their mediated and media-consuming lives. I explore the innumerable ways in which media competency is assimilated, often subconsciously, and how these skills and literacies are crucial to successfully navigating our media-saturated world. Our everyday habits and practices with media are never neutral, but are attended by a host of unexamined assumptions, expectations, and ideologies that are embedded in both the spectacle as represented and in the network of material objects that supports this spectacle. I try not to ‘teach’ or lecture so much as to facilitate the acquisition of media literacy by encouraging and guiding class discussion of how concepts in media and cultural theory apply to concrete examples, both onscreen and in our habits of consumption. This process requires trusting and reassuring students so that they may develop confidence when sounding out and debating their ideas. It also keeps me listening and learning, as each group of students brings new topics and approaches for exploration within the digital humanities.

Courses Taught at Stony Brook University
Introduction to Cinema & Cultural Studies
– Summer, Fall 2015; Winter, Summer 2016
Shakespeare in Cinema
– Spring 2016
Digital Cultural Studies 
– Spring 2015
Masculinities in American Film & TV 
– Fall 2013
Film Genres: Horror & its Sub-genres
– Spring 2013, Winter 2014, Fall 2014
Film History from Postwar-Present
– Spring 2014
Film History 1895-Present 
– Fall 2012
 
Teaching Assistant
Film Genres
Intro to Film Studies
Hollywood Cinema
Canadian Cinema
Silent Cinema
Classical Mythology

Single Lectures
Cowboys & the Postmortem Western 
– Stony Brook University Film Club
Marlon Brando in American Cinema
–  Gender & Genre, Stony Brook 
Masculinity in Taxi Driver
– Violence in American Film post-1960, UBC
Clint Eastwood's Reflexive Persona
– Violence in American Film post-1960, UBC
Guy Maddin and Queer Melodrama
 – Canadian Cinema, UBC

Areas of Expertise

Media Materiality
​Digital Culture

Television Studies
Media & Masculinities
Film Studies:
– intro to film & media 
– film history
– film genres


Theoretical Fields

Design History
Media Archaeology
Actor Network Theory
Feminist Critical Theory
Poetics of Everyday Life
Apparatus Theory
Sociology of Masculinity


Sample Syllabuses, Lectures, Blogs & Wikis
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