Work
PROGRAMMING, CURATION & MODERATION
Moderation (Selected)
Discussing Who Framed Roger Rabbit with Steve Starkey & Peter Seaman
In March 2024, I spoke with Associate Producer (VFX and post-production) Steve Starkey an screenwriter Peter S. Seaman about their work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit. This event was presented as part of the Carsey-Wolf Center’s 2023-24 feature screening series, Revisiting the Classics.
Discussing TÁR with Todd Field
In June 2023, I spoke with celebrated filmmaker Todd Field about his award-winning drama TÁR, starring Cate Blanchett. This event took place as part of the Carsey-Wolf Center’s 2022-23 feature screening series, Big Screen.
Discussing Still Film with James N. Kienitz Wilkins
In January 2024, I spoke with celebrated experimental filmmaker and screen artist James N. Kienitz Wilkins about his latest work, Still Film. This event took place as part of the Carsey-Wolf Center’s 2023-24 feature screening series, Revisiting the Classics.
Discussing Cane Fire with Anthony Banua-Simon
In November 2023, I programmed a screening of Anthony Banua-Simon’s documentary Cane Fire as part of the Carsey-Wolf Center’s feature series, Revisiting the Classics. Originally slated to moderate, I was unable to attend due to illness. My remarks were adapted and presented by my colleague Patrice Petro.
Programming & Curation (Selected)
Revisiting the Classics: Nowhere
Pollock Theater at UCSB — March 2, 2024
Featuring a post-screening conversation between filmmaker Gregg Araki and Bhaskar Sarkar (Film & Media Studies, UCSB). Programmed within the Carsey-Wolf Center’s Revisiting the Classics series.
Storytelling for the Screen: Fancy Dance
Pollock Theater at UCSB — February 20, 2024
Featuring a post-screening conversation between filmmaker Erica Tremblay and Lisa Parks (Film & Media Studies, UCSB). Programmed within the Carsey-Wolf Center’s Storytelling for the Screen series.
Full Video Forthcoming
Big Screen: Spartacus
Pollock Theater at UCSB — March 11, 2023
Programmed within the Carsey-Wolf Center’s feature series Big Screen. Featuring a pre-screening historical and critical introduction to the film.
SCHOLARSHIP
Journal Articles
Remnants of Marconi facility at Kahuku: views of operational building facade. Image: Jonathan Haeber, Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution License.
“Etherealization in a Racial Regime of Ownership: Marconi in O‘ahu, circa 1900.”
In this essay, I trace the development of wireless telegraphy in the Hawaiian Islands around the turn of the twentieth century, focusing in particular on how strategies of capital accumulation, territorial governance, and labor discipline innovated within the colonial plantation economy shaped settler discourses and imaginaries of communication and connectivity.
Open Access in Media+Environment
“Introduction: Pacific Media Cultures and the New Empire Talk”
In this introduction to Issue 15 of Media Fields Journal, Xiuhe Zhang and I critically assess renewed engagements with the analytic of empire vis-à-vis Pacific media cultures past and present.
“Introduction: In and Against Crisis”
In this introductory chapter to the edited collection Moving Images: Mediating Migration as Crisis, Krista Lynes, Ian Alan Paul and I critically assess the discursive, technical, and representational construction of ‘crisis’ as a power-laden optic through which to understand contemporary patterns of migration, displacement, and refugeeism.
Books & Journal Issues
Moving Images: Mediating Migration as Crisis
Co-edited with Krista Lynes and Ian Alan Paul, this anthology collects scholarly essays, activist communiqués and original artworks in the hopes of critically intervening in the potent contemporary discourse of migration a ‘crisis’ for nation states, with particular reference to the so-called European Migrant Crisis of 2015–16.
Media Cultures of the Imperial Pacific
Co-edited with Xiuhe Zhang, this special issue of Media Fields Journal explores how past and present modalities of imperial power shape the social lives of media and technology in and across the Pacific.
Reviews & Other
Review: What is Information?
Book review of What is Information? by Peter Janich, translated by Eric Hayot and Lea Pao (University of Minnesota Press, 2018).
Published 2019 in the International Journal of Communication (Open Access)
Review: Modernism’s Visible Hand: Architecture and Regulation in America
Book Review of Modernism’s Visible Hand: Architecture and Regulation in America, by Michael Osman (University of Minnesota Press, 2018).
Published March, 2019 in Synoptique (Open Access)
“The Role of Canadian Mining in the Plight of Central American Migrants”
Op-ed tracing the connections between Canadian foreign policy, Canada-US border governance, and the struggle for migrant justice in the United States.
Published August, 2019 in The Conversation (Online)
Interview: The aesthetic and the political are not opposed
Interview with the Gerda Henkel Foundation sciences blog, focusing on the origins and foci of the edited collection, Moving Images: Mediating Migration as Crisis.
Published August 2020 (Online)