Education & Teaching

 

TEACHING AREAS

  • Environmental Media Studies

  • Digital Infrastructure Studies/STS

  • Environmental Communication & Ecocinema

  • Environmental Justice/New Media and Social Movements

  • Theories of Media and Globalization

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2019-2011   University of Colorado Boulder (Environmental Media Scholar-in-Residence)

                                    MDST 2002 History of Media and Communication

                                    MDST 2010 Media and Social Movements

MDST 4871 Ecocinema

MDST 5871 Environmental Media Studies

2017-2019       University of Miami (Visiting Lecturer)

                                    ECS 612 Environmental Communication

                                    ECS 609 Contemporary Media Representations of the Environment

                                    ECS 376 Science, Media, and Storytelling (summer abroad program)

                                    ECS 375 Ecocinema 

2011-2019       Oakland University (Associate Professor)

                                    ENG 600 Graduate Seminar: Identity in American Film

                                    CIN 450 Senior Capstone: Ecocinema

                                    CIN 450 Senior Capstone: Screening Gender and Sexuality

                                    CIN 350 Film and Social Change

                                    CIN 321 Race and Ethnicity in Popular Media

                                    CIN 315 Screen Theory &Criticism

                                    CIN 314 French Film Culture

                                    CIN 302 Film History: New Waves

                                    CIN 150 online Intro to Film

                                    Honors College (HC) 201 Film and Philosophy

MEMBERSHIPS

Editorial Board, Media+Environment (University of California Press)

Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS)

International Environmental Communication Association (IECA)

Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)

American Anthropological Association (AAA)

EDUCATION

PhD, Modern Languages (French Film and Philosophy), University of Oxford, UK 2008

MA with distinction, Modern European Literature, University of Sussex, UK 2002

BA summa cum laude, History, University of Southern California 2001

BA summa cum laude, Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California 2001