Expertise

Teaching Interests

  • Feminist Film Theory
  • Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture
  • Girls’ Studies and Youth Culture
  • American Cinema of the 1970s
  • Queer Studies and Popular Culture

Research areas:

  • Creativity and Culture
    • Gender Studies, American Popular Culture, Film Theory, and Cultural Studies.
Past Affiliations

Assistant Professor, New College, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama
2011

Assistant Professor, Department of Gender and Race Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama
2013

Associate Professor, Department of English and Philsophy, College of Arts and Sciences, University of West Georgia (past)
2005 - 2011

Assistant Professor, Department of English and Philsophy, College of Arts and Sciences, University of West Georgia (past)
2005 - 2011

Communities
Women's Studies, African American Studies, Gender Studies
Degrees
PhD, University of Rochester, English with Concentration in Film Studies, 2005
MA, University of Georgia, English, 1999
BA, James Madison University, English, 1995
Keywords
theatre or film criticism popular culture american literature feminist theory lgbtq studies psychoanalysis queer studies youth culture queer studies film studies media studies american postwar fllm and popular culture