Film and media studies is an intellectual tradition that helps students understand attention, perception, and spectatorship as historical. The historical study of media encourages us to see other ways of arranging social life around media, and indeed to understand media as apparatuses of popular arrangement.
These insights imply that the ground on which media studies works in the lives of students is utterly transformational.
In my teaching I relate disciplinary insights in history, theory, and methods to a broader goal of helping students discover the historical nature of their attention — as a product but not a fulfillment of a historical demand.
Your attention belongs to you, and it is the wellspring of your description, reflection, arguments, learning, and sharing. In the context of sophisticated and expanding corporate and governmental weapons against cognition, pleasure and humanity are central to my idea of pedagogy.
Instructor of Record
2026
“History of Television and Radio,” Spring, DePaul University
“History of Television and Radio,” Winter, DePaul University
2025
“Waterlogs: Global Cinema of the Aquatic,” Spring, Northwestern University
Assistantships
2023
“Understanding the Creative Industries,” Fall, MS in Leadership for Creative Enterprises, Northwestern University, Professor Freda Love Smith
“History of Film I,” Winter, Northwestern University, Professor Nathan Rossi
2022
“Cultural History of Television,” Fall, Northwestern University, Professor Lynn Spigel
2018
“Elementary German II,” Spring, Colby College, Professor Arne Koch
2017
“Intermediate German I: Exploring German Studies,” Fall, Colby College, Professor Rory Bradley
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