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
"Unedited farming: Private accounts, farming fails, and food culture on Instagram." You Are What You Post: Food and Instagram. Eds. Emily Contois and Zenia Kish. Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming.
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 (UBC)
FIST240 Media Audiences (UBC)
ENGL230 Approaches to Media Studies (UBC)
ENGL112 Strategies in University Writing: Emerging Technologies (UBC)
FIST100 Introduction to Film Studies (UBC)
FIST430A Studies in Authorship: Hitchcock (UBC)
AWARDS AND HONOURS
2020 SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (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
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 LECTURES
2018 Media Industries, Prof. Ernest Mathijs, UBC
2017-18 Media Audiences, Prof. Ernest Mathijs, UBC
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2018 Instructional Skills Workshop Certification, UBC
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
2016-9 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