Teaching

In 2023, I joined the Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as an adjunct instructor. 

In Summer 2023 and Summer 2024, I taught the course, "Video Editing & Film Montage." I am happy to share my syllabus with anyone interested. See the course description below. 

FILM-ST 390M

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. (3 Credits)

In 2019, 2022, and 2023, I worked as a teaching assistant and then later an instructor at the Middlebury College Scholarship in Sound & Image Workshop, an intensive, two-week program for scholars to learn the technical skills and theory necessary to create videographic criticism. The program has trained dozens of scholars who have gone on to be influential creators and teachers of videographic criticism. See the workshop description below. 

In the workshops, we engage with many key questions facing film and media scholarship in the digital age: How might the use of images and sounds transform the rhetorical strategies used by film & media scholars? How does such creative digital scholarship fit into the norms of contemporary academia? How might incorporating aesthetic strategies common to moving images reshape scholarly discourse? How do broader trends and developments in remix culture and copyright activism connect with new modes of film and media scholarship? In a workshop setting, we consider the theoretical foundation for such forms of digital scholarship, and experiment extensively with producing such work. The goal is to explore a range of approaches by using moving images as a critical language and to expand the expressive possibilities available to innovative humanist scholars.