about

I am a cinema and media studies scholar with interests in world cinemas, critical theory, ecological media, and early and avant-garde cinema. Since Fall of 2024, I have been conducting research at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at University of Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral fellow. .

My current project is an extension of my Ph.D. dissertation, is titled Aqueous Image: Cinema and the Rhetoric of Water. In it, I explore and argue for a rhetoric and epistemology of water in philosophical, literary, and filmic texts of the 20th century, and its significance as a motif for the conception of the human, the film form, and the ecological discourse.

Alongside the written research, I am developing a companion piece and a teaching tool in the form of an interactive map: Aqueous Earth Catalog. If you want to collaborate or make your own media mapper, please write to me. You can also check out the Media Mapper website for more information.

I hold a Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Southern California, and a BA from the University of Chicago.