About Me

I’m a filmmaker, writer, professor, and film festival programmer depending on project cycles and time of year.

From September through May, I can be found at Columbia College Chicago where I’m an Associate Professor of Cinema and Television Arts. I teach in cinema studies and producing at the graduate and undergraduate levels. My favorite courses include Women and Horror, Sideshows in Pop Culture, Marketing, Distribution, and Exhibition, and Graphic Novels (literature to film adaptation). I blame an early trip to a Ripley’s Believe it or Not! museum and a childhood screening of The Exorcist for most of this.

I am currently producing an experimental stereoscopic VR horror experience SCAPEGOAT, the limited series UNCOILED, and the documentary NO ONE ASKED YOU. Previously, I produced the documentary MANLIFE and produced or directed numerous award-winning shorts. My published work appears in Journal of Film and Video, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism, The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies, Phantom Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of “Loss,” Nip/Tuck: Television that Gets Under Your Skin, Comunicazioni Sociali, and Cuaderno. (Being busy means I haven’t been updating my website.) I hold a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

I’m also Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Chicago Feminist Film Festival and formerly was Education Director at the Milwaukee Film Festival. I have been on all sorts of national and international film festivals juries, so please hit me up if you’re looking for someone! I love being part of film festivals.

I have two chihuahuas, Gary and Wyatt, that I adore. My partner Jay and I adopted them after taking an internet quiz that said chihuahuas are quiet and low-maintenance.