EDUCATION

MFA, Film
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

MA, Women's Studies (2004)
Ohio State University

BFA, Film ( 2000)
New York University, Tisch School

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor, The Young Jewish Filmmakers’ Project
Taught documentary video production to teenagers (13-16), collaboratively creating a piece that explores Jewish identity in relation to Tikkun Olam and the crisis in Darfur (Spring / Summer 2007)

Instructor, Ohio State University
Taught Women & Film an intermediate level course on the representation of gender, sexuality, race and class in classical Hollywood films 1930-present (Summer 2003)

Instructor, New York University, Tisch School
Developed and taught Women in the Director's Chair an historical overview of female directors 1896 to the present (May 2001 to May 2002)

• Co-taught with Lorca Shepperd & Shirlee Strother, respectively (May 2000 to May 2001)
• Originally worked with filmmaker Louise Tiranoff, who created the course and established the oral history project (January 1999-May 2000)

TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS
*Both my MFA and MA have been fully funded through teaching*

• Experimental Media Arts Curator/Instructor Carl Bogner (Spring 2007)
• Documentary Horizons Filmmaker Brad Lichenstein (Fall 2006)
• Concepts in Film Production Professor Jennifer Barker (Spring 2006)
• Film and Experience Professor Jennifer Barker (Fall 2005)

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Ohio State University

• Women in Film Professors Judith Mayne and Terry Moore (2002 to 2004)

GUEST LECTURES

"Performance and artificiality: Body, Camera, and Sound in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil" Professor Jennifer Barker's course Concepts in Film Production. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (April 2006)

"Melodrama in the Celebrated Films and Exceptional Lives of Lois Weber and D.W. Griffith" Professor Terry Moore's course Women Film Directors. Ohio State University (January 2004)

"Lois Weber and the Creation of Feminine Subjectivity in Early Classical Cinema" Professor Terry Moore's course Women Film Directors. Ohio State University (April 2003)

INVITED TALKS

The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus Ohio. "Lorna Simpson, The Black Arts Movement and Feminist Film" (October 2003)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

"Lois Weber's The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1917)" International Conference on Women and the Silent Screen. Guadalajara Mexico (June 2006)

"The Construction of Masculinity through Desire in Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry" The Art of Gender in Everyday Life II. Idaho State University (March 2005)

"The Anatomical Body and the Visible in Boys Don't Cry: or, Ken Doesn't Have One of Those-the Penis as Final Signifier" International Conference In Literature and the Visual Arts, Including Cinema. State University of West Georgia and the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts (October 2004)

"Laughter and Subjectivity in Clara Law's Wonton Soup" International Conference In Literature and the Visual Arts, Including Cinema. State University of West Georgia and the Association for The Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts (October 2003)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Producer, The Angelman Project: a documentary series about the genetic disorder Angelman's Syndrome, funded by the National Institutes of Health. (December 1999 to September 2000 & February and March 2001)

OTHER EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Programmer, Women Without Borders Film Festival (2006)
• Programmer/Curator, Cinegrrl/LadyfestOhio (2004)
• Production Intern , The Pig Iron Theatre Company (Summer 1997 and Spring 1999)
• Production Assistant, The Fearless Theatre Company (April and May 1999)
• Development Intern, Barenholtz Productions (Fall 1999)
• Stage Manager, Walnut Hill School of the Arts. Various Productions (1994-1996)

ADDITIONAL EDUCATION

• Tisch International, London. Theatre and Culture (1998)
• Vassar Collage. Film Production and Screenwriting (1996)
• Boston Film & Video Foundation. 16 mm Film Production (1996)
• University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Screenwriting and Video Production (1995)
• The Workshops, Rockport, Maine. Video Workshop (1995)
• Bennington College. Film Analysis and Video Production (1994)

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

• Film, Video, & New Media Production
• Narrative, Documentary, and Experimental Production
• Media Theory, History, & Criticism
• Feminist Film Theory, Queer Theory, Gender and Sexuality
• Race, Class, Religion, Social Movements
• Adaptations and Historical Narratives
• Mixed Media, Genre-Blending, Collaboration
• Learner Centered Pedagogy

PROGRAMS AND EQUIPMENT

• All formats of video
• Non-linear editing (Final-Cut, Avid-Express, Premiere, imovie)
• Studio 8 (Dreamweaver, Flash, etc.)
• HTML & CSS
• Photoshop CS, Image Ready
• Tk3 (digital books)
• 16mm, Super8 film, flatbed & upright editing

AWARDS

Chancellors Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
A merit based scholarship designed to attract and retain high caliber students. (Fall & Spring Semesters, 2005-2007)

Student Travel Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
This is a merit based award that funds students to present their work at professional level venues. Funded travel to International Conference on Women and the Silent Screen, Guadalajara, Mexico (June 2006)

SERVICE

Graduate Student Representative to Graduate Curriculum Committee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2006-2007)

Graduate Student Representative to Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Ohio State University (2002-2003)

Women's Studies Graduate Association, Ohio State University (2002-2003)

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