Work

Programming, Curation & Moderation

Moderation (Selected)

5/24: Discussing Schmigadoon with composer Christopher Willis (Carsey-Wolf Center at UCSB).

5/24: Discussing The Wind & The Reckoning with producer Angela Laprete and actor Lindsay Watson (Carsey-Wolf Center, UCSB)

4/24: Discussing Who Framed Roger Rabbit with associate producer Steve Starkey and screenwriter Peter S. Seaman (Carsey-Wolf Center, UCSB)

1/24: Discussing Still Film with filmmaker James N. Kienitz Wilkins (Carsey-Wolf Center, UCSB)

11/23: Discussing Cane Fire with filmmaker Anthony Banua-Simon (Carsey-Wolf Center, UCSB)

6/23: Discussing TÁR with filmmaker Todd Field (Carsey-Wolf Center, UCSB)

1/21: Discussing Three Chords and a Lie with filmmaker Trent Atkinson and musician Brandon Stansell

Programming (Selected)

10/24: The Fruit Machine with filmmaker Sarah Fodey (Carsey-Wolf Center at UCSB)

10/24: Memoria with sound editor Javier Umpierrez (Carsey-Wolf Center at UCSB)

3/24: Nowhere with filmmaker Gregg Araki (Carsey-Wolf Center at UCSB)

2/25: Fancy Dance with filmmaker Erica Tremblay (Carsey-Wolf Center at UCSB)

4/24: Spartacus (Carsey-Wolf Center at UCSB)

2/22: John Ware Reclaimed with Kenny Wayne (Rotary Centre for the Arts, Kelowna)

2/21: The New Ethereality Roundtable with Shannon Mattern, Rahul Mukherjee and Marisa Elena Duarte (Carsey-Wolf Center at UCSB)

5/20: John Ware Reclaimed with filmmaker Cheryl Foggo (Carsey-Wolf Center at UCSB)

11/20: Blood Quantum with filmmaker Jeff Barnaby and author/educator/activist Chelsea Vowel (Carsey-Wolf Center at UCSB)

Scholarship

Journal Articles & Chapters

2021: “Etherealization in a Racial Regime of Ownership: Marconi in O’ahu, ca. 1900,” Media + Environment 3 (2).

2020: “Introduction: Pacific Media Cultures and the New Empire Talk,” Media Fields Journal

2020: “Introduction: In and Against Crisis,” in Moving Images: Mediating Migration as Crisis (Transcript Verlag)

Books & Journal Issues

2020: Moving Images: Mediating Migration as Crisis (Transcript Verlag), co-edited with Krista Lynes and Ian Alan Paul

2020: “Media Cultures of the Imperial Pacific,” Media Fields Journal, co-edited with Xiuhe Zhang

Reviews & Other

2020: Review: Modernism’s Visible Hand: Architecture and Regulation in America by Michael Osman. Synoptique.

2020: Interview: “The aesthetic and the political are not opposed,” Gerda Henkel Foundation Sciences Blog

2019: Review: What is Information? by Peter Janich, translated by Eric Hayot and Lea Pao. International Journal of Communication

2019: “The Role of Canadian Mining in the Plight of Central American Migrants.The Conversation

Other Writing

2024: Film Review: Queer (dir. Luca Guadagnino, 2024), Santa Barbara Independent

2024: Film Review: Conclave (dir. Edward Berger, 2024), Santa Barbara Independent

2024: Film Review: Dahomey (dir. Mati Diop, 2024), Santa Barbara Independent

2024: Theater Review: ‘Lost in Yonkers’ Brings a New York Tale to Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Independent

2022: Mariel Buckley Embraces Ambiguity on ‘Everywhere I Used to Be,’ Country Queer

2022: Cody Belew: Finally Ready for His Debut, Country Queer

2021: Tommy Atkins Gets in Touch With His 90s Roots on Debut Album, Country Queer

2021: Caitlin Jemma finds ‘True Meaning,’ Country Queer

2021: Rachel Garlin in Repose on New EP, Country Queer

2021: Hannah Juanita is Unapologetic on Debut, Country Queer

2021: Andrew Sa’s Radiant Country Vision, Country Queer

2021: Ashleigh Flynn and the Riveters Bring the Live Vibe - Just In Time, Country Queer

2021: Brooke Eden Breezes Into a Gay Summer Romance, Country Queer

2021: Sam Armstrong-Zickefoose Steps Into the Spotlight, Country Queer

2019: “The Role of Canadian Mining in the Plight of Central American Migrants.The Conversation