EDUCATION

 

2016                Ph.D., Communication Studies, McGill University

  • 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

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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)

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"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

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"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

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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

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2012               Research assistant, Roberta Lentz, McGill University

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2009-11         Research assistant, Kay Armatage, University of Toronto

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2008-09        Teaching assistant, University of Toronto

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

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FIST240 Media Industries (UBC)

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FIST240 Media Audiences (UBC)

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ENGL230 Approaches to Media Studies (UBC)

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ENGL112 Strategies in University Writing: Emerging Technologies (UBC)

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FIST100 Introduction to Film Studies (UBC)

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FIST430A Studies in Authorship: Hitchcock (UBC)

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AWARDS AND HONOURS

 

2020                SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined)

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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.

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Seminars

2019                  "The Content Era." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Seattle, March 13-17.

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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

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2016-9             Journal manuscript review

 

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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

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