Education

M.F.A., Film and Video Production
University of Iowa, 2007

M.A., Film Studies
University of Iowa, 2005

B.A., Philosophy
B.S., Radio-Television-Film
High Honors
University of Texas at Austin, 1998

Teaching Experience

August 2010 – present
Assistant Professor, Journalism and Screen Studies
Department of Language, Culture, and Communication
University of Michigan-Dearborn

August 2007 – May 2010
Visiting Assistant Professor
School of Communications, program in Film and Video
Grand Valley State University

August 2005 – May 2007
Graduate Instructor
Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa

August 2005 – May 2006
Center for Teaching, University of Iowa
Graduate Assistant
Researched issues in University-level pedagogy, including service learning, cooperative learning, and plagiarism. Conducted a workshop for university faculty and TAs on designing cooperative learning assignments.

August 2003 – May 2005
Department of Rhetoric, University of Iowa
Graduate Instructor

1999 – 2002
Austin Cinemaker Co-op, Austin, Texas
Workshop Instructor
Super 8 Filmmaking, Hand-painting and Direct Manipulation Techniques

1999 – 2000
Department of Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas at Austin
Guest Lecturer
Experimental Animation and Introduction to Super 8 Filmmaking

Professional Experience

June 1995 – July 2003
KUT-FM Radio, Austin, Texas
Producer, Eklektikos with John Aielli
Responsible for improving overall sound and program flow of weekday live music and interview program, reaching 60,000 listeners weekly in Central Texas. Created, implemented, and produced weekly feature module “Arts Eclectic” on arts events in Austin. Occasional fill-in as on-air program host.

April 2000 – April 2001
Austin Cinemaker Co-op, Inc., Austin, Texas
Executive Director
Managed operations of grassroots film resource center. Stabilized budget, staff, finances, and execution of programming. Strengthened presence in community and created public relations campaign. Raised over $25,000 in grants and donations. Fortified technical department and increased services. Created and implemented series of workshops and screenings with visiting and local film artists. Co-coordinated Southwest Film Tour.

January 1998 – January 2000
Cinematexas International Short Film and Video Festival
Austin, Texas
Festival Coordinator/Managing Director
Organized and programmed third and fourth festivals of film and video. Organized and implemented promotional and fundraising campaigns. Created and co-produced “Eye and Ear,” a sidebar program of live music events and film screenings. Coordinated volunteers. Edited 300-page program guide.

Scholarly Awards

Academic Service-Learning Faculty Fellow
University of Michigan-Dearborn, 2011

Graduate Fellow, Obermann Center Graduate Institute on Engagement and the Academy, 2007

Jakobsen Graduate Student Conference, University of Iowa
“Alternative Forms of Energy” (short film)
Second Place, Performing and Fine Arts Division, 2006

Jakobsen Graduate Student Conference, University of Iowa
“Consuming the Body of Christ: Marketing, Ritual, and Spectatorship in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ”
Honorable Mention, Humanities Division, 2005

Publications and Conference Presentations

"The Woman with the Movie Camera Redux: Revisiting the Position of Women in the Production Classroom"
Co-authored with River Branch and Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson
Jump Cut no. 53, 2011

University Film and Video Association conference, 2011
Emerson College, Boston
Panel presentation: "Teaching Copyright Confidently"
Film presentation: "A Movie by Jen Proctor"

Database | Narrative | Archive Symposium, 2011
Concordia University, Montréal
Lightning talk: "Memory and 'I' in Spatial Montage"

Broadcast Education Association conference, 2011
Las Vegas, Nevada
Panel presentation: "Using Remix and Mashup as a Means for Critical Thinking"

"A Failure of Imagination: The Role of Disability in Avatar," In Media Res, 10 August 2010

University Film and Video Association conference, 2010
Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont
Panel presentation: “Sidelined: Issues of Gender Disparity in the Production Classroom”
Paper presentation: "Multiplying Memories: Home Movies and Smart Montage"

University Film and Video Association conference, 2009
University of New Orleans, Louisiana
Panel presentation: “Online and Interactive Video: Teaching Alternative Media Practices as Creative, Engaged, and Critical Art Forms”
Film presentation: “Testing the Undertow”

Kalamazoo Animation Festival International, 2009
Workshop: “Animate by Hand! Direct-on-film animation workshop”
Panel presentation: “Animation and Reality”

University Film and Video Association conference, 2008
Colorado College, Colorado Springs
New Media presentation: LostinLight.org (archival videoblog)
Paper presentation: “Beyond YouTube: Innovations in Cinematic Practice on the Web”
Panel presentation: “From Blocked to Brilliant: Encouraging Creativity in Student Work”

Society of Cinema and Media Studies, 2008
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“The Aesthetic Pedagogy of Place: Iowa Experimental Filmmaking”
Screening presentation including “Testing the Undertow”

Vloggercon, San Francisco, 2006
Panelist, “Outside the Mainstream: Vlogging in the Midwest”

Programming and Curatorial Experience

Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2010-2011
Pre-screener

Home Movie Day West Michigan, 2008
Co-Coordinator

Pixelodeon Festival of Online Video, American Film Institute
Curator, “Outside and Unknown: from the fringes of the vlogosphere”
June 2007

Iowa City International Documentary Festival
Pre-screener, 2006

Iowa City Microcinema
Co-founder and director, 2005 – 2007
Coordinated local film and video festivals, organized workshops and screenings with visiting artists. including Matt McCormick, Roger Beebe, and Skip Elsheimer.

Collage as Cultural Practice conference screening series, University of Iowa
Presenter, Decasia by Bill Morrison
2005

OffCenter:OnScreen Film Series
Rude Mechanicals Theatre Collective, Austin, Texas
Co-curator with Aaron Valdez, 2002
Programmed series of avant-garde and performance-related film screenings

South by Southwest Film Festival
Juror, Experimental category, 2001

Structuralist, Collagist, and Surrealist Film: The Poetics of Avant-garde Cinema
Austin Film Society, Austin, Texas
Co-curator, 2000
Contributed to retrospective of avant-garde film from 1940s to the present

Professional Activities and Affiliations

Advisor, University Film and Video Foundation

Board Member, University Film and Video Association

Member, Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Board member, Grand Rapids Community Media Center, 2008 – 2010
Steering committee member, The Rapidian online citizen journalism project

Second Unit, Summer Program in Nature Documentary, Grand Valley State University, 2008

Board member, Bijou Theater, University of Iowa, 2005

Board member, Austin Cinemaker Co-op, 2001-2002

Juror, South by Southwest Film Festival, Experimental Category, 2000