Assistant Professor of English

Education:
BS, Film and Multimedia Production, Emerson College, 1998;
PhD, Cinema-Television: Critical Studies, University of Southern California, San Diego, 2006

Research Interests:
Film and media studies; Representation of race, dance and sexuality in film, archival research and media production

Selected Publications:
"Pocho.com: Re-Imaging Television on the Internet" in Television After TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition (Duke University Press, 2004), pp. 324-341.

"Framing Jennifer Lopez: Mobilizing Race from the Wide Shot to the Close-Up" in The Persistence of Whiteness (Routledge, 2008)

Works in Progress:
"Shake Your Assets: Dance and the Performance of Latina Sexuality in Hollywood Film" (book manuscript)