Professional Experience
2020-2022
Faculty
University of Rochester
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Teaching: digital media studies, gender studies, photography
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Created & taught course Robot Love: Decoding Gender & Race in Technology
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Project management: all aspects of course planning and implementation
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Organized digital media studies professional development speaker series
2020
Collections Management Assistant
George Eastman Museum
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Determined film preservation priorities by inspecting 6,000 nitrate film canisters on an 8-week deadline for a grant-funded audit
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Database management: responsible for detailed cross-referencing and correcting location and accession number discrepancies
2018-2020
Writer & Researcher
George Eastman Museum
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Graduate fellowship in the Moving Image Department
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Created public-facing texts for the Dryden Theatre
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Coordinated volunteers and conducted catalog research for film festival
2015-2019
Studio Art Assistant
Joyce Neimanas
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Managed archives and records
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Professional proposal and correspondence writing
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Photoshop, scanning, prepared files for lab printing
2013-2018
Teaching Assistant
University of Rochester
Courses in writing, digital media studies, film studies, digital art, and video art
2012-2014
Staff Writer
ArtSlant
Wrote exhibition reviews and conducted artist interviews for online publication
2011-2012
Collections Writer
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Fellowship to research the museum collections and write public-facing narratives for online publication
Core Competencies
Publication
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Chapter author: The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media (Routledge, 2022) and Theorizing Visual Studies anthology (Routledge, 2012)
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Published essays: Afterimage 45:5 (Univ. of California Press, 2018), Dialectic V (Univ. of Utah, 2017), and Dilettante Vol. 2 (Summer Forum for Inquiry + Exchange, 2016)
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Editorial experience: Co-edited Theorizing Visual Studies anthology (Routledge, 2012) and InVisible Culture online journal editorial board member (2014-2016)
Public Speaking
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Presenter: Presented papers at 9 conferences (2009–2020)
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Instructor of record: Taught lecture- and discussion-based classes for 6 years combined (2009–2013 & 2020–2022)
Event Organization
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Curatorial experience: curated and co-curated three group art exhibitions, including at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (2012)
- Conference planning: Lead organizer for THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) Rochester, a collaboration among the University of Rochester, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Memorial Art Gallery (2018)
Education
2013-present
completion 2022
University of Rochester
2010
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2003
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
PhD Visual & Cultural Studies
Dissertation: "Study Nature, Not Books: A Genealogy of Photography from Psychiatric Portraiture to Brain Imaging"
MA Visual & Critical Studies
Thesis: "Beholding Bodies & Embodied Beholders in Annette Messager's Mes voeux"
BFA
Studio arts degree with coursework in photography, drawing, video art, and art history, theory & criticism