To the Institution
EVENTS ORGANIZED
Film festivals:
Tournées Film Festival | Goucher College | Winter 2020
New Directions in Documentary Film Festival & Symposium Keynote Address by Albert Maysles; Special Honorees Su Friedrich and Debra Chasnoff; Wellesley College, October 19-25, 2009
Class visits:
Appropriate Behavior class discussion with Desiree Akhavan | Emerson College | spring 2025
All Over Me class discussion with Alison Folland | Emerson College | fall 2023
The Birdcage class discussion with Dr. Kyle Stevens | Emerson College | fall 2023
By Hook or by Crook class discussion with Jenni Olson |Emerson College | fall 2023
Gillian Wallace Horvat (Filmmaker) | Emerson Los Angeles | April 18, 2023
Dr. Jim Lane (Scholar) | Emerson Los Angeles | April 10, 2023
Dr. Brettany Shannon (Scholar) | Emerson Los Angeles | March 21, 2023
Penelope Spheeris (Filmmaker; Rock ‘n Roll Anthropologist) and K.J. Relth-Miller (Film Programmer) | Emerson Los Angeles | March 1, 2023
Dr. Maya Montañez Smukler (Film Historian/Scholar)| Emerson Los Angeles | February 15, 2023
Jessica Dunn Rovinelli (Filmmaker) | Emerson College | November 8, 2022
Dr. Hunter Vaughan (Scholar/Activist) | Emerson College | November 23, 2021
Dr. Maggie Hennefeld (Film Historian/Scholar) | Emerson College | October 28, 2021
Dr. Timothy Shary (Scholar) | Emerson College | October 14, 2021
Dr. Jennifer Moorman (Scholar)| Emerson College | April 8, 2021
Hamza Walker (Art Curator) | Emerson College | March 25, 2021
Lizzie Borden (Filmmaker) | Emerson College | February 25, 2021
Desiree Akhavan (Filmmaker) | Emerson College & Wellesley College | November 30, 2020 (co-organized with Dr. Vernon Shetley)
Dr. Maya Montañez Smukler (Film Historian/Scholar) | Emerson College | November 4, 2020
Dr. Cornel West (Scholar, Author, Activist) | Emerson College | October 10, 2020 (co-organized with Dr. Maria Corrigan)
Jenni Olson (Filmmaker, Archivist) | Emerson College | October 5, 2020
Laylah Ali (Artist) | Goucher College | March 13, 2019
Alison Bagnall (Screenwriter) | University of the Arts | November 20, 2015
Cheryl Dunye (Filmmaker) | UCLA | spring 2007
Screening events:
Shortbus screening and discussion with John Cameron Mitchell and Associate Professor Lindsay Beamish | Emerson College | March 20, 2025
The Loneliest Planet screening and discussion with Julia Loktev | Emerson College | Nov. 12, 2024
Slash/Back screening and discussion with Nyla Innuksuk | Emerson College | March 24, 2024
An Evening with Su Friedrich | Emerson College | Feb. 26, 2024
Jeanne Dielman… Community screening | Emerson College | Jan. 22, 2024
Appropriate Behavior screening and discussion with Desiree Akhavan | Billy Wilder Theater, UCLA Film & Television Archive | February 18, 2023
The Gleaners & I screening and discussion with Memefest co-founder Oliver Vodeb | Goucher College | November 5, 2019
A Long Way from Home screening and discussion with Kavery Kaul, Goucher College, April 5, 2018
In Country screening and discussion with Mike Attie, University of the Arts, October 6, 2015
Girlfriends screening and discussion with Claudia Weill, Wellesley College, October 19, 2011
Boys Don’t Cry 10th anniversary screening and discussion with Christine Vachon, Wellesley College, February 18-19, 2010
UCLA Crank Film Series screening of Parting Glances and I Don’t Know, May 7, 2008.
Conferences:
Planning Committee, Women’s Liberation Conference, Boston University, March 27-29, 2014
Co-curricular initiatives:
Co-Instructor, Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies, 2011-2013, developed course “Understanding Pornography”
Faculty Seminar with Professor Laura Mulvey, Wellesley College, 2008-2009
Graduate Student Advisor, UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellows, 2007
Research Assistant to UCLA Professor Janet Bergstrom, 2003-2007
Copy-edited book on Chantal Akerman and Film History’s “1927” issue.
Compiled bibliography/filmography on Jean Renoir.
Developed departmental website content and alumni networking database.
STUDENT MENTORING/PROFESSIONALIZATION
Sundance at ELA Firepit featuring Sundance Film Festival Programmers Amanda Salazar and Heidi Zwicker | Emerson Los Angeles | 2023
Book trailer created with Professor Harlan Bosmajian’s graduate cinematography class | Emerson College | 2021
Book trailer created with graduate assistant Lids Bierenday | Emerson College | 2021
Faculty screener, Emerson Film Festival | 2020-
Faculty critiques, MFA portfolio reviews | 2021-2022
ADVISING and EXAMINING
Reader, Visual and Media Arts MFA Thesis Projects: Rain Falls Like Us, Yiwei Xie ’26 | Pallbearers, Tati Chavitage ’25
Faculty Advisor, Interdisciplinary Studies Capstone Projects: Producing Queer Film, Kaden Bryant ’28 | Applied Narrative Identity Theory, Bailey Carr ’27
Cinematic Figurations of Bisexual Transgression | Jacob Engelberg ’22, PhD Diss., Film Studies, King’s College London (Ext. Examiner)
Feminism in the Television Series Dickinson: The Fluidity of Emily Dickinson’s Feminist Identity | Melanie Erende, BA Thesis, American Studies, Universität Innsbruck ’23 (Faculty Advisor)
YouTube: The New Audition | John Walsh, BA Thesis, Film & Media Studies, UArts ’16 (Faculty Advisor)
The Way to Santiago: A Journey into the Themes of the Films of Orson Welles | Heather Lee, Independent Study, Cinema & Media Studies, Wellesley ’11 (Faculty Advisor)
Lesbian Discretion Advised: Negotiating Lesbian Desire in Grey’s Anatomy | Mary Durden, Wellesley ’10 (Independent Study Advisor)
COMMITTEE REPRESENTATION
Emerson College: VMA Interim Exhibition Committee Curator (2024-26); Faculty Status Committee (2023-2025); Media Studies Search Committee (fall 2023 [Chair], fall 2022-spring 2023 [Co-Chair]); Green Production Committee (2022-23); Curriculum Working Group, Sustainability Action Plan (spring 2023); Equity and Cultural Climate Committee (spring 2021, fall 2021 [Chair], 2024-25)
Goucher College: Lectures & Fellowships Committee (2019-2021) | Visiting Artist Faculty Planning Subcommittee (2017-2019) | Internship Fellowships Committee (2019-2020) | Phi Beta Kappa Awards Committee (2019) | Faculty Sponsor, LGBT+ Media Exchange (2017-2018) | Faculty Scholarship Presentations Planning Committee (2017-2018) | Recent Graduate Trustee Screening Committee (2018) | Visiting Assistant Professor Search Committee (2016-2017) | Faculty Sponsor, Film Club (2016-2018) | LGBTQIA Faculty Representative (2016-2018) | Faculty Reviewer, Verge journal of undergraduate nonfiction writing (2016-2018)
University of the Arts: Honorary Awards Committee | Assistant Professor of Film & Video Faculty Search Committee | University Committee on Academic Technology | Liberal Arts Course and Curriculum Committee (all 2014-2015)
To the Profession
New Review of Film and Television Studies Editorial Board Member, 2024- | Editor in Chief, 2020-2023 | Co-sponsor, SCMS TV SIG Graduate Student Essay Contest, 2019-2023 | Juror and Co-sponsor, Chris Holmlund SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize, 2018, 2020-2023
Society for Cinema and Media Studies: Gender and Feminisms Caucus Mentorship Program, 2025 – | Alex Doty Mentorship Program, Queer and Trans Caucus, 2021 – | Seminar Participant, “Spectacles of Anti-Black Violence: Teaching Horror ‘With Everything Going On Right Now,’” 2021 | Comedy and Humor Studies SIG Reading Group, 2020 – | Student Writing Award Committee, 2015-2016 | Boston Conference Host Committee, 2011-2012 | Queer Caucus Member, 2007- | Women’s Caucus Member, 2007-
Boston Cinema/Media Seminar: Advisory Board Member, Fall 2021- | Co-organized (with Vinicius Navarro): “Scratchin’ and Survivin’: Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions” by Adrien Sebro, response by Ken Feil, spring 2024; “Melancholy Ruins, ‘Ruin Porn,’ and Queer Kinship in Tsai Ming-liang’s Stray Dogs and Afternoon” by Nicholas de Villiers, response by Shujen Wang, spring 2023; “The Right to Speed-Watch (or, When Netflix Discovered its Blind Users),” by Neta Alexander, response by Jane Shattuc, spring 2022.
Fulbright Association: Peer Reviewer, US Scholar Program, Fall 2024; Project Reviewer, Fulbright Poland – Graduate Student Award (2023), Senior Award (2024)
International Collaborator: Delocating Mountains: Cinematic Landscapes and the Alpine Model” (University of Innsbruck)
External Reviewing: 2023-24 University of Vermont Film & Television Studies Academic Program Review
Professional Mentoring: Wellesley Career Education Hive Internship Project Alum Mentor, 2022-23
Professional Memberships (current): Boston Boston Cinema/Media Seminar (Advisory Board Member); British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies; GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Film Critics (Advisory Board Member); Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Editorial Board Member: New Review of Film and Television Studies (2024-), Routledge’s Screening Cinema series (2024-)
Peer Reviewer, Pennsylvania State University Press (2023) | Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (article, 2023) | Indiana University Press (2021) | French Screen Studies (2021) | Celebrity Studies (2020) | Bloomsbury Publishing (2015, 2018, 2020) | Open Library of Humanities (2018) | differences (2017) | Journal of Bisexuality (2017) | Rutgers University Press (2016) | Peter Lang Publishing (2016) | Signs (2016) | Transformative Works and Cultures (2016) | Television and New Media (2015-16) | Criticism (2015) | University of Texas Press (2014) | Sexualities (2012) | Mediascape (2010)
Editorial Intern, Cineaste, 2000-2001
PROMOTIONAL ENDORSEMENTS
Broads, Sisters, Exes: Feminist Millennial Television, Vincent L. Stephens. Wayne State University Press, 2025.
Women and New Hollywood: Gender, Creative Labor, and 1970s American Cinema, ed. Aaron Hunter and Martha Shearer. Rutgers UP, 2023.
The City in American Cinema: Film and Postindustrial Culture, ed. Johan Andersson and Lawrence Webb. Bloomsbury, 2019.
Serious Excess: Women, Camp and Popular Culture, Katrin Horn. Palgrave, 2018.
Screen Lessons: What We Have Learned from Teachers in Television and in the Movies, ed. Mary M. Dalton and Laura S. Linder. Peter Lang, 2017.
Fade to Gray: Aging in American Cinema, Timothy Shary and Nancy McVittie. UT Press, 2016.
To the Community
Editor, New Review of Film and Television Studies Blog
Jurying: Kyoto Prize 2024 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy; GALECA Crimson Honors National College Film/TV Criticism Contest Juror, 2023; Documentary Features, Outfest Film Festival, 2008
Memberships: Brattle Film Foundation; Independent Film Society of Boston