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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO | Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Assistant Professor of TRANS CINEMA AND MEDIA
Cinema Studies Institute & Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies


EDUCATION

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | Evanston, Illinois

Ph.D. in BLACK STUDIES – Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
M.F.A. in DOCUMENTARY MEDIA – School of Communication

Graduate Certificate & Mellon Cluster Fellow in Critical Theory
Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Dissertation: “Translating the Void: Anti-Blackness, Racial Adaptation, and Trans Narrativity – from Stage to Screen and In-Between”
  • MFA Thesis Film: in the interval (24 mins, Digital and 16mm)


THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | Washington, District of Columbia

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE in DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING
Institute for Documentary Filmmaking, School of Media and Public Affairs

M.A. in AMERICAN STUDIES
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences


THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | Tucson, Arizona

B.A., double major, magna cum laude:
  • GENDER & WOMEN’S STUDIES – Sexualities and Queer Studies Emphasis
  • MEDIA ARTS – Film & Television Studies Emphasis


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