ABOUT ME
I'm a film studies professor who loves researching, writing, and speaking about film history. I regularly introduce films, moderate panels, make radio appearances, and give lectures on an array of topics relating to film history.
I've given talks all over the United States as well as in Amsterdam, Vienna, Prague, London, and Surrey. I've also introduced films at the National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), the National Archives (D.C.), the Museum of the Moving Image (NY), the Czech National Film Archive (Prague), the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh), the Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles), the Austrian Film Museum (Vienna), and numerous other local venues.
I've also just directed my first documentary, Rendered Small.
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Hollywood History
Including the history of independent directors of the studio era like Sam Fuller & Ida Lupino.
2001 Ph.D., English (Film Studies), University of Maryland.
Nontheatrical Film
Especially home movies and educational films.
Nonfiction Films
Documentaries of all sorts, to the present day.
1996 M.A., English (Film Studies), University of Maryland.
1993 B.A., English, University of California at Riverside,
Magna Cum Laude.
TEACHING
At North Carolina State University I have taught graduate and undergraduate courses on War Documentaries, The History of Educational Film, American War Movies, 1950s American Film, The Musical, Studio Era Hollywood, Cinema Stylists: Nicholas Ray, Douglas Sirk, Sam Fuller, Women and Film, History of Film to 1940, Film and Literature, Warner Bros., African American Film, Introduction to Film, and International Crime Film.
