Degrees: Ph.D. New York University, M.A. New York University, B.A. University of Wisconsin–Madison

Expertise: Cinema Studies, Film and Media Theory, and Visual Culture Studies

Major Awards: Holocaust Education Foundation Summer Institute Faculty Fellow, Northwestern University; Faculty Research Award, Tufts University; Cushman Family Fund Faculty Enrichment Grant, SMFA; National Endowment for the Arts Great Lakes Regional Media Fellowship; Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Individual Media Arts Grant; Banff Center for the Arts Residency; Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program; Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Fellowship, New York University

Selected Scholarship and Publications

"Duplicated Replications: the Interventions of Omer Fast," Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Volume 37, No 5 (March/April 2010).

"Constructing the Image of Postmemory," in The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture," eds. Frances Guerin and Roger Hallas, Wallflower Press, London and New York, 2007

"Intersecting Traumas: The Holocaust, the Palestinian Occupation and the work of Israeli Journalist Amira Hass," in Culture, Trauma and Conflict: Cultural Studies Perspectives on Contemporary War, ed., Nico Carpentier, Cambridge Scholars Press, London, 2007.

Selected Reviews:

Review of Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film by Jeffrey Skoller, Screen, Volume 49, No. 1 (Spring 2008)

"Between Stillness and Movement," Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism,Vol. 35. 2, Sept/Oct 2007

Review of This is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics of Film, by Abigail Child, Senses of Cinema, online journal, Issue 44 (July-September 2007) www.sensesofcinema.com

"Yifat Kedar's Between the Lines," Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism,Vol. 32. 1, July/August, 2004

Courses

FAHS-0007-A
Histories of Film/ One: 1895 – 1955

FAHS-0007-B
Histories of Film/ Two: 1955-Present

FAHS-181-C
Film Noir

FAHS-0182-A
American Visions: David Lynch and Martin Scorsese

FAHS-0185-B
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock