UMass Boston

Film and visual culture, global art cinema, political film, human rights cinema, graphic literatures

PhD, Michigan State University

• "Air Conditioner, or Revolutionary Cinema without a Future." October 184 (2023): 87-114.
• "Graphic Radicals: Art Spiegelman's Comic Politics." In Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman, edited by Georgiana Banita and Lee Konstantinou. University of Mississippi Press, 2023. 128-54.
• "Blade Runner 2049"s Incongruous Couplings: Living and Dying in the Anthropocene” (co-authored with Hugh C. O’Connell). Special Issue of Science Fiction Film and Television, ‘Legacies of Blade Runner,’ edited by Sarah Hamblin and Hugh C. O’Connell. 13.1 (2020): 37-58.
• “Legacies of Blade Runner Introduction” (co-authored with Hugh C. O’Connell). Special Issue of Science Fiction Film and Television, ‘Legacies of Blade Runner,’ edited by Sarah Hamblin and Hugh C. O’Connell. 13.1 (2020): 1-14.
• “Exhausted Montage: Political Cinema Post ‘68.” Special Issue of Cultural Politics, “Legacies of 1968: Histories, Geographies, Epistemologies,” edited by Sarah Hamblin and Morgan Adamson.15.3 (2019): 358-71.
• “Introduction to Legacies of 1968: Histories, Geographies, Epistemologies” (co-authored with Morgan Adamson). Special Issue of Cultural Politics, “Legacies of 1968: Histories, Geographies, Epistemologies,” edited by Sarah Hamblin and Morgan Adamson.15.3 (2019): 263-72.
• “Slow Cinema and Contemplative Politics: Radical Documentary in the 21st Century.” Special Issue of Studies in Documentary Film, “Radical Documentary Today,” edited by Sarah Hamblin and Ryan Watson. 13.3 (2019): 214-32.
• “Introduction to Radical Documentary Today” (co-authored with Ryan Watson). Special Issue of Studies in Documentary Film, “Radical Documentary Today,” edited by Sarah Hamblin and Ryan Watson. 13.3 (2019): 187-95.
• “Revolutionary (In)action: Violence and Humanism in Satyajit Ray’s The Adversary.” In 1968 and Global Cinema, ed. Christina Gerhardt and Sara Saljoughi. Wayne State University Press, 2018. 289-309
• Chris Marker’s Overnight: Cinétracts Then and Now.” The Cine-Files 12 (2017): Available online.
• “The Form and Content of Human Rights Film: Teaching Larysa Kondracki’s The Whistleblower.” Special Issue of Radical Teacher, "Teaching Human Rights." 104 (2016): 38-47.
• “Pink Film, Red Politics: Koji Wakamatsu’s Revolutionary Pornography.” Special Issue of English Language Notes, "Sexing the Left." 53.1 (2015): 123-39.
• “A Cinema of Revolt: Black Wave Revolution and Dušan Makavejev’s Politics of Disgust.” Cinema Journal 53.4 (2014): 28-52.
• “Graphic Radicals: Seth Tobocman and the Art of Resistance.” In The Great Recession in Fiction, Film and Television: Twenty-First Century Bust Culture. Ed. Kirk Boyle and Daniel Mrozowski. Lexington Books, 2013. 233-62.
• “Towards a Transnational African Cinema: Image and Authenticity in La Vie sur terre.” Black Camera 3.2 (2012): 8-30.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

• CINE 101: Introduction to Cinema Studies
• CINE 202: Cinema Histories II
• ENGL 258: Introduction to World Cinema
• ENGL 292: Cinema, Sex, Censorship
• ENGL 340: Literature and Visual Media
• ENGL 311: How to Write Like a Film Critic
• ENGL 316: Cult Cinema
• ENGL 317: American Independent Cinema
• ENGL 438: Reading the Graphic

Graduate

• ENGL 605: Art Cinema and Ugly Feelings
• ENGL 624: Introduction to Film Theory
• ENGL 624: Global Art Cinema                                                                   
• ENGL 624: Political Cinema and World Politics                   
• ENGL 624: World Cinema in/of the Anthropocene