Campus Directory

Pronouns she/her

Division Arts Division

Department/College/Unit Film and Digital Media Department

Title Department Manager

Affiliation Staff

Staff Type Administrator

Primary Office Location Communications Building
Room 101

Mail Stop Film and Digital Media

Biography, Education and Training

PhD, Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia

MA, Film Theory and Gender Studies, Skidmore College

BA, Anthropology, DePauw University

EDIT Media (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Teaching Media) Certificate

Selected Presentations

“Original Media Influencer: Eleanor Roosevelt.” Advanced TV Herstory Podcast, Feb. 2025.

“Eleanor Roosevelt on Screen.” Featured speaker: Roosevelt Reading Festival, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, NY, June 2024. Broadcast on C-SPAN 2.

Selected Publications

Books
Eleanor Roosevelt on Screen: The First Lady’s Appearances in Film and Television, 1932-1962. McFarland, Nov. 2023.

Articles
•  “’Can You Act Gay?’: Queer Women in the Cinematic World of Fred Zinnemann.” ReFocus: The Films of Fred Zinnemann, John M. Price, ed. U. of Edinburgh Press, forthcoming.
•   “Desert Hearts” and “Looking for Mr. Goodbar.” The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film, Erica J. Dymond and Salvador Jimenez Murguia, eds. Rowman and Littlefield, 2022.
•   “'I Will Not Be Your Little China Doll': Representations of Eleanor Roosevelt in Film and Television.” Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900 to Present,  Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring 2020. 
•   "Drum.” The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films, Salvador Jimenez Murguia, ed. Rowman and Littlefield, 2018.
•    “Mandy Walker” and “Sherry Lansing.” Hollywood Heroines: The Most Influential Women in Film History, Laura Bauer, ed. ABC-CLIO, 2018.
•    “Reagan’s America: Waiting to Die in Testament’s Radiation Zone,” B*tch Flicks, “Ladies of the 1980s” special issue, 29 June 2016.