Hello! I am a cinema and media studies scholar with interests in world cinemas, critical theory, ecological media, and early and avant-garde cinema. Since Fall of 2024, I have been conducting research at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at University of Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral fellow. .

My current project is an extension of my Ph.D. dissertation, is titled Aqueous Image: Cinema and the Rhetoric of Water. In it, I explore and argue for a rhetoric and epistemology of water in philosophical, literary, and filmic texts of the 20th century, and its significance as a motif for the conception of the human, the film form, and the ecological discourse.

Alongside the written research, I am developing a companion piece in the form of an interactive mapping tool: Aqueous Earth Catalog. I am organizing an in-person symposium at CARGC on April 17, 2026 to share the use cases for this tool for other digital humanities projects: learn more about the event and RSVP here! If you want to collaborate or make your own media mapper, please write to me. You can also check out the Media Mapper website for more information.

I hold a Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Southern California, and a BA from the University of Chicago.