Teaching
Teaching
Courses Taught
Department of Film & Media Culture, Middlebury College
"American Experimental Film" (Winter 2025)
In this course we will survey the varied films that have made up the American avant-garde since 1943. Drawing on theories of spectatorship, we will consider how experimental films challenge viewers through form and content. Special attention will be given to critical consideration of the avant-garde’s relationship with the more commercial cinema of Hollywood. Filmmakers discussed will include Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Shirley Clarke, Andy Warhol, Marlon Riggs, George Kuchar, Cheryl Dunye, Su Friedrich, and Kevin Jerome Everson. In watching and discussing these works, we will trace a material history of the avant-garde, from 16mm and video, to digital cinema and machinima, drawing through lines from the underground avant-garde of the 20th century to the pervasive remix culture of today.
Department of Film Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Video Editing & Film Montage" (Summer 2023, 2024, 2025)
An in-depth immersion into the practice of video editing and film montage. This course will offer a thorough understanding of video editing techniques. Students will gain skills in file management, importing footage, remixing footage, working with audio, recording one's screen, creating titles and more. Video exercises will be informed by montage theories and practices. Students will learn about various editing techniques employed by filmmakers and then recreate those techniques through practical exercises. The goal of this course is to learn by doing. This course will also offer a brief introduction to online remix culture through assignments. Readings and videos will offer students the opportunity to reflect on how the work they are creating corresponds to an existing creative and scholarly practice.
Workshops & Teaching Assistant Work
Scholarship in Sound & Image Workshop, Middlebury College
Instructor (Summer 2023)
Teaching Assistant (Summer 2019 & 2022)
An intensive workshop where participants learn how to conceive and produce film & media criticism via digital sound and moving images. The workshop is for scholars whose objects of study involve audio-visual media, especially film, television, and other new digital media forms. More here.
Department of Political Science, Middlebury College
Teaching Assistant to Dr. Erik Bleich (Winter 2018)
"Introduction to Media & Minorities"
In this course we will learn a process for understanding how the media portray minorities. Students will be introduced to techniques developed by Middlebury’s Media Portrayals of Minorities Project lab that enable quantitative and qualitative analysis of digital news to better understand how social groups as diverse as immigrants, refugees, Muslims, Jews, Latinos, Chinese, Africans, and others have been portrayed in the US and international media. Students in this class will learn how to download bulk newspaper data from Lexis-Nexis, to process it using python notebooks, and to statistically analyze it using Stata as they work on a concrete project of their choice.