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Together with Maya Montañez Smukler, I did the audio commentary for the Limited Editor Blu-Ray Box Set of Martha Coolidge’s Valley Girl.

My Queer Film Classics volume on Appropriate Behavior was awarded a 2023 Lambda Literary Award.

My article “Mumblecore’s Second Act: Millennial Indie Moviemaking’s Migration to Television” was translated and reprinted in Taipei Editions’ Mumblecore, the first Spanish-language work on the topic.

In spring 2023, I was Faculty in Residence at Emerson Los Angeles, where I gave a public lecture titled “Mumblecore’s Second Act: Millennial Indie Moviemaking’s Migration to Television” on March 22 at 6pm.

On February 18, 2023, I moderated a Q&A with filmmaker Desiree Akhavan following a screening of her debut feature Appropriate Behavior at UCLA’s Hammer Museum in the Billy Wilder Theatre.

I was among those invited to vote in the once-a-decade poll Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time in 2022; view my ballot.

In Spring 2022 I was U.S. Fulbright Scholar in residence in the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

I discussed Jane Campion’s In the Cut with Mark Kermode for The Erotic Thriller episode of BBC Radio 4’s Screenshot

My first book The B Word is mentioned in Verily Bitchy’s “Why TV Is Getting Worse”.

I was quoted in a Vox article on the queer film canon, and in the Dame article “Where Are All the Bisexual Men on Television?”

My annual favorite films lists are included in Senses of Cinema‘s World Polls for 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and 2015.

My edited collection After “Happily Ever After”: Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age is available from Wayne State University Press; I spoke with The Screen Show about it,  took part in the Bryant Park Reading Room’s Reel Talks series, discussed it on the limited series podcast Looking for Violet and an episode of the Forever Hollywood podcast, was cited in Celestino Deleyto’s feature for The Conversation and quoted in the New York Times article “How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Rom-Com?”, and published this Letter to the Editor in The Boston Globe.

My book Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media is available from Indiana University Press; I spoke with Ms. magazine writer Michele Meek and appeared on Sunday Extra with Julian Morrow, wrote a thinkpiece for The Conversation (reprinted in Salon) about sex scenes in the contemporary age, was interviewed for New Books Network, and was quoted in articles on CNN.com , Mashable, and the New York Times.

I was quoted in this article about the algorithm age of screen spectatorship for ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corp.) Arts.

I appear in an episode of Be Kind Rewind devoted to women directors nominated for Oscars.

I participated in “Visible: Out on Television”: an LGBTQ TV Roundtable for Los Angeles Review of Books.

I guest edited a special issue of New Review of Film and Television Studies on “Radical Romantic Comedy,” also my first issue as the journal’s third and newest Editor.

I received a Tourneés Film Festival Grant that funded a French Transnational Film Festival, that took place Feb. 5-March 25, 2020 at Goucher College.

I was quoted about representations of bisexuality in contemporary popular culture in articles in Now This News, The i, Longreads, Vox and CBS.com about contemporary representations of bisexuality on screen.

I reported on the 70th Trento Film Festival and the 45th Telluride Film Festival for Senses of Cinema.

I was an invited plenary panelist at the British Academy-sponsored series “Imagining ‘We’ in the Age of ‘I’: Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture” at the University of Warwick, U.K., September 28-29, 2018.

I contributed to the Los Angeles Review of Books‘ symposium on the sixth and final season of HBO series Girls.

Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, 2013)

The Itinerant Cinephile was quoted about Il Cinema Ritrovatro’s Casablanca screening on Fandor’s Keyframe Daily blog.

An excerpt from The B Word is featured on the In the Life LGBT Research Portal of the UCLA Film & Television Archive website.

I was quoted about Under the Skin in the Film Comment 2014 Readers’ Poll.

I commented on “Weinergate” for The Boston Globe.

I’ve written an Indiana University Press blog post about bisexuality in Baz Luhrman’s The Great Gatsby (2013).

I commented on bisexual celebrities in The Advocate.

I am quoted in a story on bisexual women in television on Autostraddle.com.

I commented on representations of un/deremployed young women in contemporary TV for Jezebel.

Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai, 1997)
Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai, 1997)