EDUCATION
2016 Ph.D., Communication Studies, McGill University
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Thesis: Stars, Nobodies, and Other Apparitions: Cameo Roles in Hollywood Film and Television; Supervisor: Will Straw
2009 M.A., Cinema Studies, University of Toronto
2007 B.A., English and Cinema Studies, University of Toronto
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Stars and Silhouettes: the History of the Cameo Role in Hollywood. Wayne State University Press, October 2020.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
"Top 10 Everything: WatchMojo and the monetization of fan culture on YouTube." Cinephile 14.1 (2020)
"Now You've Got the Shiveries: Affect, Intimacy, and the ASMR Whisper Community." Television & New Media 16.8 (December 2015): 683-700.
“From the Ground Up: Transforming the Inside Out LGBT Film and Video Festival of Toronto.” Canadian Journal of Film Studies 21.1 (Spring 2012): 38-57.
“The Body of the Machine: Computer Interfaces in American Popular Cinema Since 1982.” Projections 5.2 (Winter 2011): 75-95.
Book Chapters
"Farming, Unedited: Failure, Humor, and Fortitude in Instagram’s Agricultural Underground.” Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation. Emily Contois and Zenia Kish. University of lllinois Press, 2022.
Other Writing
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2020 Assistant Teaching Professor, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC
2017-19 Sessional lecturer, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC
2016 Teaching assistant, McGill University
2014-15 Visiting scholar, Visual Studies Research Institute, University of Southern California
2012 Research assistant, Roberta Lentz, McGill University
2009-11 Research assistant, Kay Armatage, University of Toronto
2008-09 Teaching assistant, University of Toronto
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
FIST240 Media Industries, FIST340 Media Audiences, ENGL230 Approaches to Media Studies, ENGL112 Strategies in University Writing: Emerging Technologies, FIST100 Introduction to Film Studies, FIST430A Studies in Authorship: Hitchcock (UBC)
CMNS3550 Media and Public Relations, CMNS3500 Special Topics in Social Media, CMNS3500 Media and the Environment, CMNS4240 Strategies in Crisis Communication, CMNS3240 Advanced Professional Communication, ENGL1100 Introduction to University Writing, ENGL2190 Adventure in Film and Literature, CMNS3800 Communication and New Media (TRU)
AWARDS AND HONOURS
2021-24 SSHRC Insight Development Grant, "Seeing the Trees: Conflict and Conservation in B.C.
Forestry Training Films
2021-22 TRU Internal Research Fund, "Unearthing Forest Film Archives"
2020 SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, "Politics and Pedagogy in Forestry Training Films 1960-2000 (declined)
2018-9 UBC Faculty Association Travel Grants, UBC
2016 Media@McGill Advanced Dissertation Grant, McGill University
2016 Graduate Excellence Award, McGill University
2014 Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement, SSHRC
2013 Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship, SSHRC
2012 Graduate Excellence Award, McGill University
2008 Cinema Studies Institute Bursary, University of Toronto
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Papers presented
2022 "Progress, Precarity, Propaganda: B.C. Resource Communities in Forestry Films,
1970-2000.” Film Studies Association of Canada Conference. Virtual. May 11-15.
2022 "Farm Fails: Private Insta Knowledge Communities." Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Chicago (virtual). March 31-April 3.
2021 "Bad Blood: Serial Killers, True Crime and the Racial Imaginary in Shadow of a Doubt." Film Studies Association of Canada Conference, Virtual, June 1-3.
2021 "Seeing the Trees: Politics and Pedagogy in British Columbian Forestry Training Films." Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Denver (virtual), March 17-21.
2019 "Seeing the Trees: Politics and Pedagogy in Forestry Training Films 1960-2000." Film Studies Association of Canada Conference, Vancouver, June 4-6.
2018 "Compilation Videos: YouTube and the Fan-Driven Future of Film History." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Toronto, March 17-19.
2017 "Casting Cameos: Social Relationships and Free Agency in the Late Studio Era." Workshop on Extras, Bit Players and Historical Consultants, Filmuniversität Babelsberg, Potsdam, Germany, July 17-18.
2015 "Detail and Ground: The Cameo Role and the Decline of the Studio System." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Montreal, March 24-29.
2013 "Now You've Got the Shiveries: Affect, Intimacy, and the ASMR Whisper Community." Art History and Communication Studies Graduate Student Conference, McGill University, April 26.
2009 “I Can Has Box Office: Looking Back at the Animal Gaze.” Cinema Studies Institute Graduate Colloquium, University of Toronto, March 26-27.
Seminars
2019 "The Content Era." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Seattle, March 13-17.
INVITED AND PUBLIC LECTURES
2020 "The History of the Cameo Role," Tap into Research webseries, TRU
2020 The Cameo and the American Film Industry, COM100 Understanding Media, American University.
2018 Haters Back Off and Transmedia Storytelling, FIST240 Media Industries, Prof. Ernest Mathijs, UBC
2017-18 Watchmojo and Fan Audiences, FIST340 Media Audiences, Prof. Ernest Mathijs, UBC
MENTORSHIP
2021 Coordinator, JCNM Peer Mentorship Program
2020-1 TRU Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship, supervisor
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2021 Assessment and Evaluation of Learning Certificate, CELT, TRU
2020 Learning Tech Certificate of Digital Competency, TRU
2018 Instructional Skills Workshop Certification, UBC
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
2021 Media Inclusion Working Group, Film Studies Association of Canada
2016-21 Journal manuscript review
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
2019 Volunteer, Cambie Park Community Garden
2016 Chair of the organizing committee, Journées de la Culture, Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal
2012 Federal Volunteer Service Year, Wilhelm-Hauff-Schule, Stuttgart, Germany
2009-10 Intern, Now Hear This Literacy Program, Descant Arts & Letters Foundation, Toronto
LANGUAGES
English, French, German