I am a PhD Candidate and 2CI New and Emerging Media Fellow in the Department of Communication (Moving Image Studies) at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. My dissertation is entitled, “Vernacular Posthumanism: Visual Culture and Material Imagination,” and it examines the materiality of image culture within our posthuman, networked, digital cultural logic. Drawing on film and media theory, posthumanist theory, object-oriented ontology, actor-network-theory, and phenomenology, I argue that the informational and genomic revolutions have fundamentally transformed our ‘modernist’ relationship with the other actants that surround us, which in turn alters the production of images in contemporary visual culture.

 

My primary objects of analysis include: DNA portraits, human migration maps, Fast Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris, 1997), the films of Stanley Kubrick, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and David Cronenberg, 300 (Zach Sndyer, 2006), the work of Damien Hirst, BodyWorlds, and various video games.

 

I have been the lead instructor of a variety of classes, both introductory and upper level. See the “Courses” section for some example syllabi.