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Assistant Professor, Screen Arts & Cultures

• Affiliation(s)

  • Assistant Professor, Women's Studies

• Fields of Study

  • Queer and Feminist Media, Television, Production Cultures, Fan Cultures

• About

  Recent Courses Taught

  Television Theory
  Queer Media Theory
  Feminist Film Theory
  Television History

• Education

  • PhD, Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA, 2010
    MFA, Creative Writing, San Francisco State University, 2000
    BA, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1996

• Awards

  • University of Michigan Rackham Research Grant, 2011 UCLA Dissertation Fellowship Award, 2008 UCLA Center for the Study of Women Research Award, 2007 1st Place, Society of Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Student Essay Award, 2006

• Presentations

  • "Checking Tolerance: Network Self-regulation and Gay Media Activism in the 1970s," Northwestern University, Chicago, 2012 "On Television," Keynote Speech, On Television Conference, Yale University, New Haven, 2012 "Blue and Lavender TV: Accessing Sex and Sexuality on Manhattan Cable's Channel J," Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Boston, 2012 "Guidosexuality," Keynote Speech, Jersey Shore Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago, 2011

• Works in Progress

  • Queer Women in Television (monograph) African American lesbian media producers Female BDSM filmmakers Straight queers and queer straights on reality television

• Selected Publications:

• Articles

  • (2009) To a Queer Degree, GLQ
  • (2007) Having it All Ways: The Tourist, the Traveler, and the Local in The L Word, Cinema Journal
  • Distribution Is Queen: LGBTQ Media on Demand (forthcoming, December 2014), Cinema Journal

• Book Chapters

  • (2013) The D Word, Loving ‘The L Word.’
  • (2009) Liminal Places and Spaces: Public/Private Considerations, Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries
  • (2008) Resisting, Reiterating, and Dancing Through: The Swinging Closet Doors of Ellen DeGeneres’ Televised Personalities, Televising Queer Women: A Reader
  • (2006) Is She Man Enough: Female Masculinities in The L Word, Reading the L Word: Outing Contemporary Television