Teaching

Orange Is the New Black (Jenji Kohan, 2013-19)

EMERSON COLLEGE

American Nightmares: Horror Film since Psycho (Spring 2021)

History of Media Arts II (Spring 2021)

Jeanne Dielman to Barbie: 50 Years of Women’s Filmmaking (Spring 2024)

L.A. Plays Itself (Spring 2023, Emerson LA)

Language of Media Arts (graduate; Fall 2023, Fall 2024)

Media, Arts and Culture (Spring 2024, Spring 2025)

Media Criticism and Theory (Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2024) 

Nasty Women & American Television Comedy (Fall 2021)

New Queer Cinema (Fall 2023)

Sapphic Cinema from Girls in Uniform to Bottoms (Spring 2025)

Wayfaring Women Films: Road Warriors, Globetrotters, and Vagabonds (Fall 2024)

Women and 70s Hollywood (Spring 2023, Emerson LA)

Women and Music Video (Fall 2025, co-taught with Prof. Kristin Lieb)

Women Filmmakers (Fall 2020, Fall 2022) 

UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA

Nasty Women & American Television Comedy (Spring 2021)

“Bad Feminists” Meet “Feel-Bad Cinema” (graduate; Spring 2021)

GOUCHER COLLEGE

American Cinema (Spring 2018)

American Nightmares: The Horror Film from Psycho to Get Out (Spring 2018, Fall 2019)

American Romantic Comedy (Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2019)

Film History and Theory I and II (Fall 2016, Spring 2017)

Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan (Spring 2019)

Introduction to Communication & Media Studies (Spring 2019)

Nasty Women and American Television Comedy (Spring 2020)

Queer Cinema (Spring 2018, Spring 2020)

Women Filmmakers (Spring 2017, Spring 2019)

World Cinema (Fall 2017, Fall 2019)

Holy Smoke
Holy Smoke (Jane Campion, 1999)

UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS

American Romantic Comedy  (Fall 2015)
American Television, Culture, & Society (Spring 2015)
Contemplating Cinema: Film Theory & Criticism (Fall 2014)
Documentary: Ethics, Aesthetics, Action (Fall 2015)
Film & Media Studies Thesis (Fall 2015)
Women Filmmakers/Provocateurs (Spring 2015)

INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON  

Feminist Studies: Core Concepts & Key Debates (Spring 2014)
Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture (Fall 2013, Spring 2014)
Representation and the Body (Fall 2013)

35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis, 2008)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Gender and Television (Summer 2010-2012)
Theories of Representation (Spring 2013)
Virgins, Vamps & Camp: Gender and Sexuality in Classical Hollywood Cinema (Fall 2010-2012)

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY      

French Film Classics (Fall 2012)
Understanding Pornographies (designed team-taught course taught within Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies)

WELLESLEY COLLEGE  

20th and 21st Century American LGBTQ Literature (Spring 2012)
American Television, Culture, & Society (Spring 2009, 2010, 2011)
Contemporary Romantic Comedy (Summer 2010, 2011, 2012)
Desiring Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Cinema (Summer 2010 and 2012, Fall 2011)
Documentary: Ethics, Aesthetics, Action (Fall 2009)
History of World Cinema (Spring 2004)
Hitchcock in Context (Summer 2004)
Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan (Spring 2013, Summer 2009, 2011, 2013)
Women and Film/Theory (Spring 2004)
Women and Television (Fall 2010, Spring 2011 and 2012)

Twin Peaks (David Lynch, ABC, 1990-1991)

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

Film and Literature Adaptation and Beyond (special reader) (Winter 2003)
French Cinema and Culture (teaching associate) (Fall 2007)
Happy Endings…?: Hollywood Romantic Comedy (Winter 2008)
History of the American Motion Picture (teaching assistant) (Summer 2003, 2004; Fall 2004, Winter 2005)
History of American Television (teaching assistant) (Winter 2006)
Introduction to LGBT Studies (teaching associate) (Fall 2005)
Out of the Closet, Into the Vaults: LGBT Film and the Outfest Collection (Spring 2008)
Queer Women & Hollywood (teaching fellow) (Winter 2007)
Stylistic Studies of the Moving Image (teaching assistant) (Spring 2003)

SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE

Great Directors (Fall 2005, Spring 2006)
History of World Cinema, Part II: 1960 to the Present (Spring 2006)

DARASAMUTR BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION COLLEGE (Thailand)

Teacher of English as a Foreign Language (2001-2002)