EDUCATION

2020 –               University of California – Santa Barbara | PhD | Film & Media Studies

                           Dissertation: “Californian Media Occulture: A Genealogy of Techno-Occult Intimacies"

                           Committee: Greg Siegel (Chair), Jennifer Holt, Lisa Parks, Christina Vagt           

                           Certificate of College & University Teaching, Certificate of Inclusive Teaching (in progress)

 

2018 – 2020     Columbia University, School of the Arts | Masters of the Arts | Film & Media Studies

                           Thesis: “Bewitched and Besmirched: Locating Women in Contemporary Folk Horror”

                           Thesis Advisors: Jane Gaines, Ron Gregg | Dean’s List: Fall 2018, Spring 2019

 

2013 – 2017    New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study | Bachelor of the Arts

                          Thesis with Honors: “A Genealogy of Feminist Tech-Noir”

                          Thesis Advisor: Rahul Hamid | Dean’s List: 2013–2017 | Honors: Cum Laude

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PUBLICATIONS

Accepted         “The Fringes of Reason & the Californian Techno-Metaphysical Impulse,”

                           Edited Collection/CA Ideology

                          *Collection to be published as a part of the California Ideology Project Multicampus Research Group

2026                  “Collectivity and Collaboration at Camera Obscura: Managing Editors at Work,”

(expected)       Camera Obscura, no. 121

                           *Co-written with Chip Badley and Sarah Lerner

2025                  “Conspirituality & the Alt-Right Pipeline,” Media Fields 19 (Special Issue, Co-Editor), expected in                                       Summer

2023                  “Editorial Office Workers’ Statement Regarding the UC System-Wide Strike,” Camera Obscura, no. 114

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AWARDS, GRANTS, & FELLOWSHIPS

2020 – 2025     Regents Award / Regents Fellowship in Film & Media Studies | UC Santa Barbara

2024                  Building Intellectual Community Grant, UCI Humanities Center | Conspiracy Culture

2023                  Research Acceleration Grant / Film & Media Studies | UC Santa Barbara

2023                  University of California Humanities Research Institute | Multicampus Graduate Student Research                                     Grant | California Ideology Project

2022                  University of California Humanities Research Institute | Multicampus Graduate Student Research                                     Grant | Alt-Right Media Literacy Series

2022                  Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB | Graduate Collaborative Award | Alt-Right Media                                           Literacy Series

2019–2020       Master’s Fellow | Columbia University, School of the Arts | Supervisor: Jane Gaines

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Santa Barbara City College, Film & Media Studies Department

Instructor or Record             Visionary Filmmakers (Fall 2025)

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University of California at Santa Barbara, Film & Media Studies Department

Instructor of Record              Occult Media (Fall 2024)

Teaching Assistant               Contemporary Cinema: 1989–Present (Spring 2022, Winter 2024, Spring 2025)

                                                 Media Criticism (Winter 2022)

                                                 Film Theory (Fall 2021)

 

Columbia University, Film & Media Studies Department

Teaching Assistant              Cinema History II: 1930–1960 (Fall 2018)

 

Guest Lectures

2022, 2023                            “Girl with Hyacinths as a Study of Swedish Film Noir,” World Cinema to the 1960s

                                                (December 2022 & 2023) | Santa Barbara City College

2022                                       “Minority Report and Tech-Noir under Post-9/11 Surveillance,” Contemporary Cinema:                                                        1989–Present (April 2022) | UCSB

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & TALKS

2025                 “The Odd Fellows ‘With a Camera’: Occult Media History from the Magic Lantern to Amateur                                            Filmmaking in Secret Societies” | Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2025 Conference

 

2025                 “Conspirituality and Esoteric Hollywood” | Understanding Conspiracy Culture: Theory and Practice                                Symposium, part of Building Intellectual Community Grant, UCI Humanities Center

 

2024                 Camera Obscura Roundtable | Media Inside/Out Conference | UC Santa Barbara

2024                 Post-Screening Q&A: The Disappearance of Shere Hite (with director Nicole Newnham) | Carsey-Wolf                            Center Screening, UC Santa Barbara

 

2024                 “The Fringes of Reason & the Californian Techno-Metaphysical Impulse” | California Ideology                                        Conference, part of the UCHRI grant |UC Santa Cruz

 

2024                 “David Sutcliffe: A New Age Hypermasculinity Guru” | Alt-Right Media Literacy Symposium |                                            Sedgwick Reserve, UC Santa Barbara

 

2021                 “The Witch as Legion: Evaluating the Pagan Woman as Folk Horror Archetype” | Contemporary Folk                              Horror in Film and Media Conference (Virtual Conference)

 

2020                 “The Politics of Gender and Historiography in Folk Horror” & Introduction to Film: Penda’s Fen |                                     Zoom-In 2020, MA Thesis Showcase| Columbia University

 

2019                 “‘Onto-Epistemological Vertigo’: Cultural and Generic Underpinnings of Mind-Game Film” | 2019 Mid-                            Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) Conference | Pittsburgh, PA |                                            *Nominated for Walden Prize for Best Graduate Paper

 

2019                 “Summoning the (Anti-)Christian in Hereditary (2018) and Apostle (2018)” | Folk Horror in the 21st                                  Century | Falmouth University

 

2019                 “Social Technology, Commercial Interests, and High Art in The Conjuring Universe” | 2019 Stony                                      Brook English Graduate Student Conference: Disrupting the Canon | SUNY Stony Brook

 

2019                 “The Noir Wave: Alliances between Japanese New Wave and Noir” | 2019 East Asian GradCon                                            (February) | Columbia University

 

2018                 “Exploring the Maternal and the Occult in The Witch and Hereditary” | 2018 MAPACA Conference|                                  Baltimore, MD | *Nominated for Walden Prize for Best Graduate Paper

 

2017                 “Running on Karma: A Case Study of Transnational Noir” | Master’s Student Symposium: Cinema’s                                   World Migration Pattern | Columbia University

 

2017                 “Feminist Interventions in Tech-Noir” | 2017 MAPACA Conference | Philadelphia, PA | *Nominated                                  for Walden Prize for Best Graduate Paper

 

2017                 “Feminist Interventions in Tech-Noir” | Ninth Annual Gallatin Senior Symposium | NYU

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & SERVICE

2021 – Present        Outreach Coordinator & Editorial Assistant | Media Fields Journal | UC Santa Barbara

2022 – 2024            Managing Editor | Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies | UCSB

2022 – 2023            Graduate Representative | Film & Media Studies, UCSB

2020 – 2022            Editorial Assistant | Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies | UCSB

2021 – 2022             Assistant Graduate Representative | Film & Media Studies, UCSB

2019                          Visiting Educator, YES Scholars Program | Harlem, NY

2018 – 2020             Steering Committee Member | Women’s Film Preservation Fund | A committee of NYWIFT

2017 – 2018              Membership Assistant | New York Women in Film & Television | Supervisor: Katie Chambers

2017 – 2019              Festival Screener | Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) | Supervisor: Duana Butler

2017                           Intern | New York Women in Film & Television | Supervisor: Victoria Vasquez 

2017, 2018                Volunteer | New York Film Festival, Film at Lincoln Center | Supervisor: Erin Delaney

2016                           Intern | Film Comment, Film at Lincoln Center | Supervisors: Nicolas Rapold, Violet DeLuca

 

CONFERENCE & FESTIVAL ORGANIZING

2024                         Co-Grantee & Volunteer, The California Ideology Conference

2022 – 2024            Co-Grantee & Co-Organizer, Alt-Right Media Literacy Series & Symposium

2023                          Panel Moderator, Theory Now Conference (2023 Carsey-Wolf Center Annual Conference)

2022                         Co-Organizer, Media Fields VIII: Zones of Mediation

2019 – 2020            Assistant Organizer, Conference, 11th Biannual Women and the Silent Screen

2019 – 2020            Steering Committee Member, 2020 Zoom-In Student Conference & Screening Series

2019                         Panel Chair, Folk Horror in the 21st Century Conference – Domestic Folk Horror

2019                         Assistant Organizer, Conference: Legacies of Leftism: East Asia and Beyond

2019                         Panel Chair, 2019 Columbia University FMS Studies Graduate Conference – Where is Cinema?

2018                         Panel Chair, 2018 MAPACA Conference – Gender and Race in Contemporary Horror Film

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MEMBERSHIPS & PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Graduate Student Member

Magic Lantern Society, United States & Canada

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