I'm in my 4th year of the Moving Image Studies track of the PhD program in the Department of Communication at Georgia State University.  I'm now in the process of dissertating, and the tentative title of my dissertation is "Vernacular Posthumanism: Visual Culture and Material Imagination."

My research interests include such topics as posthumanism, visual culture, film theory, ecocriticism, and "trash" cinema.  I'm especially enamored by the work of Stanley Kubrick, Krzysztof Kieslowski, David Cronenberg, and David Lynch.  I'm from a small town in Iowa, and I have a strange obsession with dog shows, nature documentaries, and 80s action movies.