Teaching

Courses and Advising

 

Courses Taught

Graduate Seminars

Media History as Microhistory: the Case of Vachel Lindsay

Animation and Documentary

Autotheory of Film (forthcoming, Winter 2024)

Advanced Undergraduate Courses

The Audiovisual Essay

Film in the Digital Age

Problems of Melodrama

Charles Chaplin

Contemporary Women Directors: Kelly Reichardt, Lynn Ramsay, Greta Gerwig

Intermediate and Introductory Courses

Animation

Film Theory to 1950

World Film History

Introduction to Film Studies

Introduction to Research in Film Studies


Advising

Graduate

T.A. Pattinson, Ph.D. dissertation. Anti-Hermes: Examining Deleuze, Communication, and Power in the Twenty-First Century. Defended August 2017.

Nguyen, Sam. MA Thesis. An Exploration of the Sensuous Registers and Feminist Dynamics within the Films of Céline Sciamma. Defended January 2022.


Undergraduate

Matthew Dillabough. Honor’s thesis. The Alignment of the Spectator: Defining Spectatorship in Virtual Reality. Defended April 2020.