Education
PhD | Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago |
BA | Film Studies and Philosophy, Columbia University |
Publications
Books
On the Screen: Displaying the Moving Image, 1926-1942. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
Cinematic Appeals: The Experience of New Movie Technologies. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“‘Taking the Plunge’: The New Immersive Screens.” In Screen Genealogies: From Optical Device to Environmental Medium, edited by Craig Buckley, Rüdiger Campe, and Francesco Casetti, 135-158. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019.
“Screen Practices and Hollywood Cinema in the 1930s.” Screen 60, no. 2 (Summer 2019): 197-223.
“Die Konstruktion eines ‘synchronen Feldes’: Benjamin Schlangers Experimente mit der Gestaltung von Leinwänden und Kinosälen in den 1930er Jahren.” Translated by Guido Kirsten. Montage AV 25, no. 2 (2016): 167-180.
“Scaling Down: Cinerama on Blu-ray.” In Screens, edited by Dominique Chateau and José Moure, 82-96. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016.
“Classical Hollywood, 1928-1946: Special/Visual Effects.” In Editing and Special/Visual Effects, edited by Kristen Whissel and Charlie Keil, 68-77. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016.
“‘You Don’t So Much Watch It As Download It’: Conceptualizations of Digital Spectatorship.” Film History 24, no. 2 (2012): 221-234.
“‘Smothered in Baked Alaska’: The Anxious Appeal of Widescreen Cinema.” Cinema Journal 51, no. 3 (Spring 2012): 74-96.
Recent Awards and Honors
Clarence Simon Award for Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring in the School of Communication, Northwestern University, 2019.
ACLS Fellowship, 2016
Courses
Undergraduate
- RTVF 312-1 History of Film I
- RTVF 321-0 The Films of Todd Haynes
- RTVF 322-0 Melodrama
- RTVF 341-0 Digital Cinema
- RTVF 341-0 Special Effects
- RTVF 398-0 Screens
Graduate
- RTVF 412-0 Cultural History of Film
- RTVF 413-0 Cultural History of New Media
- RTVF 420-0 Film Theory and Criticism
- RTVF 443-0 Screens