image credit: "Mouchette in Tbilissi" by Martine Neddam

 
Most of my academic writing accounts for 19th-21st century new media--from photography and animation to social media and generative AI--as speculative philosophies of personhood. I like to consider the promises of new media made even before they could be technically realized or broadly adopted, especially as these promises forecast shifting boundaries between human and more-than-human capacities. I also have a longstanding interest in what is now called Girl Theory as it relates to animation (anime, especially), digital culture, and performance. I bring these areas of expertise to my mentorship of graduate students at Texas Tech University, where I specialize in supporting feminist and/or philosophy-oriented arts research; projects engaging with film and media studies; and performance and intermedia art (I like intellectually unruly projects). My own scholarship has taken me to the field of biophysics, philosophies of vocal expression, manuals from the age of Homebrew Computer clubs, archived MySpace pages, the manosphere, the provenance of databases used for machine learning, and the emerging field of critical life studies.  

In recent years, I've been developing strategies for experimental academic writing in the service of media philosophy. Creative-critical writing is a way for artists to connect their artistic practice to their scholarship and offers new rhetorical possibilities, as others have noted (for example, see Ruha Benjamin's discussion of science fiction and sociology). I have a special interest in the audio essay as an emerging format for scholarship.

For more information about my publications, please check out the Scholarship drop down menu.




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