Position:
Editor - Film and History Series at Scarecrow Press, Director of Communications at Center for the Study of Film and History, Editorial Advisory Board at Encyclopedia of Women and Popular Culture, Treasurer; Governing Council Member at International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST), Film Review Editor at Film & HIstory: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies, Scholar-in-Residence at Emerson College
Work:
Scarecrow Press
since Sep 2011
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Editor - Film and History Series
Center for the Study of Film and History
since Nov 2008
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Director of Communications
Encyclopedia of Women and Popular Culture
since Jan 2010
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Editorial Advisory Board
International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST)
since Jun 2007
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Treasurer; Governing Council Member
Film & HIstory: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies
since Sep 2006
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Film Review Editor
Emerson College
since Jan 1999
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Scholar-in-Residence
Literature/Film Association
Oct 2009 - Oct 2012
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President
Southwest Journal of Cultures
Jan 2008 - Jan 2011
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Editorial Advisory Board
Education:
McGill University 1994 - 1998
Ph.D., Anthropology
Interests:
Topics linking film, history, and society, adaptation studies, B-movies, early television, audiencing, visual research methods, science fiction, "the monstrous"
Honor & Awards:
Kansas Humanities Council Scholar; Research Fellow of the Will Rogers Memorial; former Fellow of the Boston Historical Society.
Recipient of various seed grants, development fund awards, and research travel grants.
Keynote and invited lectures delivered to: The Hall Center for the Humanities (Lawrence, KS); the Boston Historical Society; Plymouth State University (Plymouth, NH); The Buster Keaton Celebration (Iola, KS); Stoughton Public Library (Stoughton, MA); The Theatre Museum of Repertoire Americana (Mt. Pleasant, IA); The National University of Taiwan (Taipei, Taiwan); and Tamil University (Tamil Nadu, India).