About Me

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I am a scholar of queer media: my research explores LGBTQ television history, local production, and media activism. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, my work combines gender and sexuality studies with film, television, and media studies. 

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Alongside Annie Sullivan, I co-edited the anthology Local TV: Histories, Communities, Aesthetics published by the University of Georgia Press in 2025. Local TV  offers critical analyses of an expansive range of practices, policies, and debates in television histories, amplifying the uses of television by marginalized groups—whose perspectives are too often sidelined or distorted in mainstream fare—as a site for community formation, cultural expression, civic engagement, and political action. My own book project chronicles the rise of public access programming made by and for LGBTQ people and considers this programming as a televisual archive that offers insight into the structures of feelings circulating in queer communities in the 1970s-2000s.

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As a scholar-activist, I prioritize leadership, service, and community involvement as well as research, writing, and teaching. I care deeply about cultivating equitable communities in academia by advocating alongside marginalized and underrepresented students, staff, and faculty.

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I am currently teaching in the English department at an independent high school outside of Philadelphia, PA. Previously, I served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Kenyon College from 2022-2025 and as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Critical Identity Studies at Beloit College from 2021-2022. In 2021, I received my PhD in Screen Cultures from the Radio/TV/Film department at Northwestern University.