Current Research Interests

Steven Soderbergh, Robert De Niro, and Representations of the 1970s in Contemporary Film and TV

Expected Graduation Date: 2012

Advisor: Tom Schatz

Published Work

Book Chapters

"‘You Shook Sinatra's Hand, You Should Know Better:' Competing Modes of Capital in Ocean's 11" in The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh, Eds. R. Barton Palmer and Steven M. Sanders, The University of Kentucky Press. (Forthcoming 2011)

"Piercing Steven Soderbergh's Bubble," in The Business of Entertainment, Ed. Robert C. Sickels, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Press, 2008: 180-198.

"Class and Allegory in Spike Lee's Inside Man" in Fight the Power!: The Spike Lee Reader, eds. Hamlet, J. & Means Coleman, R. New York: Peter Lang, 2008: 41-60.

Journal Articles

"Robert De Niro's Raging Bull: The History of a Performance and a Performance of History," The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Spring 2011, issue 20.1 (forthcoming).

"H d'oh TV: Watching With The Simpsons in High Definition" in FlowTV, 10:8, 2009. http://flowtv.org/?p=4319

"That 70s Sequence: Remembering the Bad Old Days in Summer of Sam" in Cinephile, 5:2, 2009: 17-23.

"The HBO-ification of Genre" in Cinephile, 4:1, 2008: 50-57.

"(Zombie) Revolution at the Gates," Cinephile, vol. 3:1, 2007: 61-70.

Book Review

"The Solaris Effect: Art and Artifice in Contemporary American Film by Steven Dillon," Film International. Vol. 7, no. 40, 2009: 85-86.

Forthcoming - Books

The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh (co-author with Andrew de Waard). Wallflower/Columbia University Press (publication date 2011).

Conference Papers

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) – Spring 2010

"True? True? True?" Robert De Niro, Casino and Authorship

Global Fusion – The University of Texas at Austin – Fall 2009

"Caprica Looks a Lot Like Vancouver to Me: Theorizing Canadian-ness in Battlestar Galactica"

The Film Studies Association of Canada – The University of British Columbia – Spring 2008

"sex, lies and (digital) videotape: Steven Soderbergh as Digital Auteur"

The Film Studies Association of Canada – The University of Saskatchewan – 2007

"No Expense Was Incurred Bringing This Motion Picture to the Theater: Considering the Failure of Steven Soderbergh's Schizopolis"

The Film Studies Association of Canada Graduate Colloquium – NSCAD University, Halifax – 2006

"Nostalgia for Nostalgia in The Royal Tennenbaums"

Past Employment

The University of Texas: Austin: Assistant Instructor (2010-Present)
The University of British Columbia: Sessional Instructor (2008)