I'm a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Georgia. In my current research, I am attempting to answer questions about why traditional and new media affect viewers and players differently. Specifically, how do films and videogames generate emotions, and why do they tend to generate different kinds of emotions? My other film interests include documentary film, Asian film, and animation. My other new media interests include videogame theory, embodiment, and multiplayer contexts. Although my primary focus is film and new media studies, I am interested in (and have taught) production as well.

News:

Spring 2007: I presented at "The Philosophy of Computer Games," a conference in Reggio Emilia, Italy. I will also present a paper on modern melodramas at the SCMS conference in Chicago in March.

Fall 2006: I attended the Serious Games Summit in October, presented at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Conference in December, and presented at a conference at the University of Copenhagen.

Spring 2006: I presented at two conferences: Society for Cinema and Media Studies (March) and the Society for the Philosophic Study of Contemporary Visual Art (April). I've also put a new paper on the website.

Fall 2006: I am teaching CA352: History of World Cinema. The course website is here. I will present a paper at the annual conference of the American Society of Aesthetics in October.

Summer 2005: I participated in a panel at the Games, Learning, and Society conference in Madison. The other panel speakers were David Bordwell, Henry Jenkins, and Kurt Squire. You can see a webcast of the panel on this page. It's on the bottom left, called "A Conversation Across Generations of Media Scholars." My presentation begins at about twenty minutes in.

Feb 2005: My 2004 SCMS conference presentation was mentioned in a review of the conference published in Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies.

Spring 2005: This semester I am on a University Fellowship, so I'm not teaching. Instead, I'm concentrating on my dissertation and co-editing a special issue of Film Studies: An International Review.

This page last updated April 26, 2008