I am a media historian, media arts curator, and media maker, currently in residence as a Fellow at the Open Documentary Lab at MIT. My fellowship project is a book manuscript on the history, theory, and practice of the magic lantern, titled Lanternology. I am also developing a new mutimedia performance piece and an online version of the Keystone 600 Set, a visual instruction system of lantern slides and stereoscopic views. My research and teaching interests focus on media archaeology and media aesthetics, new media, nonfiction and documentary cinema and media, avant-garde and feminist cinema and media, early and silent cinema, and early popular visual and performance culture (especially melodrama). I received my Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Chicago.
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