CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
Master of Arts, Cinema Studies, University of Toronto, 2019
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology and Film Studies, University of British Columbia, 2017
Pre-Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2015-2016
- Major Research Paper: “Bodies as Mirrors: Figuring Annihilation in the Female Double”
- Supervisor: Meghan Sutherland
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology and Film Studies, University of British Columbia, 2017
- Senior Thesis (Honours): “Once Upon a Time in the South: Ideology, Genre Subversion, and Western-Blaxploitation Hybridity in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained”
- Supervisor: Lisa Coulthard
Pre-Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2015-2016
- Go Global Exchange Program
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Toronto
- CIN213: Cinema and Sensation II: Sex
- Position: Teaching Assistant (January 2019 - April 2019)
- Instructor: Daniel Laurin
- Position: Teaching Assistant (January 2019 - April 2019)
- CIN210: Horror Film
- Position: Teaching Assistant (September 2018 - December 2018)
- Instructor: Carrie Reese
- Position: Teaching Assistant (September 2018 - December 2018)
ASSOCIATIONS & ON-CAMPUS INVOLVEMENT
The Neutral: University of Toronto’s Cinema and Media Studies Journal
Editor and Social Media Manager (December 2018 - August 2019)
LGBTOUT
Drop-In Centre Volunteer (October 2018 - April 2019)
UBC Undergraduate Film Student Association (UFSA)
Member and Student Volunteer Editor (January 2017 - March 2017)
Psychology Students’ Association (PSA) of UBC
Member (September 2014 - May 2015)
Editor and Social Media Manager (December 2018 - August 2019)
LGBTOUT
Drop-In Centre Volunteer (October 2018 - April 2019)
UBC Undergraduate Film Student Association (UFSA)
Member and Student Volunteer Editor (January 2017 - March 2017)
Psychology Students’ Association (PSA) of UBC
Member (September 2014 - May 2015)
HONOURS & AWARDS
2013 Ministry of Education Dogwood/District Authority Award
- Granted by the British Columbia Ministry of Education
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Constellations: Connections, Disruptions, and Imaginations in Cinema and Beyond - First Forum Conference (University of Southern California)
October 10-11th, 2019, Los Angeles, CA
Backward Glances: Reboot - Screen Cultures Graduate Conference (Northwestern University)
September 27-28th, 2019, Evanston, IL
It’s Alive! Film/Form/Life - Spiral Film and Philosophy Conference
May 17-18th, 2019, Toronto, ON
Where is Cinema? Columbia University Film and Media Graduate Conference
February 28th, 2019, New York City, NY
Fluidity - University of Toronto Cinema Studies Institute’s Annual Graduate Conference
January 25-26th, 2019, Toronto, ON
39th Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
February 7 - 10th, 2018, Albuquerque, NM
October 10-11th, 2019, Los Angeles, CA
- Presentation title: “On the Shores of Memory: Reconfiguring Utopia in Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer (an “Emotion Picture”)”
Backward Glances: Reboot - Screen Cultures Graduate Conference (Northwestern University)
September 27-28th, 2019, Evanston, IL
- Presentation Title: “We Never Needed Your Consent”: Bodily Autonomy and Racialized Transference in Ghost in the Shell (2017)
- Respondent: Miriam J. Petty, Associate Professor of Radio/Television/Film and Screen Cultures Director of Graduate Studies, Northwestern University
It’s Alive! Film/Form/Life - Spiral Film and Philosophy Conference
May 17-18th, 2019, Toronto, ON
- Presentation title: “Pick My Face Up Off the Ground: ‘Placeless, Raceless, Bodiless’ Potentiality in Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer (an ‘Emotion Picture’)”
Where is Cinema? Columbia University Film and Media Graduate Conference
February 28th, 2019, New York City, NY
- Presentation title: “‘An Entirety of Spectacle’: The Aesthetic Remaking/Remodelling and Unrelenting Survivorship of the Fox Theatre, Westwood Village”
- Respondent: Takuya Tsunoda, Assistant Professor of Japanese Film and Media, Columbia University
Fluidity - University of Toronto Cinema Studies Institute’s Annual Graduate Conference
January 25-26th, 2019, Toronto, ON
- Presentation title: “‘I Thought You Only Murdered Boys?’ ‘I Go Both Ways’: Re-Considering Non-Monosexuality Through the Lens of Undecidability, De-Categorization, and Consumption in Jennifer’s Body (2009)”
39th Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
February 7 - 10th, 2018, Albuquerque, NM
- Presentation Title: “Once Upon a Time in the South: Ideology, Genre Subversion, and Western-Blaxploitation Hybridity in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained”
