Since 2005, I have been teaching courses in arts and media, globalization and culture, popular culture, cybercultures, digital literacy, women, gender and sexuality, and interdisciplinary and integrative studies. My research interests include virtual, visual & digital cultures, digital ethnography, digital cities, intersections between the body, technologies, and the urban public sphere, gender and sexuality, postgenderism, transhumanism, and embodiment & performance. I am currently a Cultural Studies Ph.D. Candidate at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.

My Media Culture Field Statement surveys the major theoretical frameworks that constitute the field of media culture, including the foundational theories of mass media and society (Frankfurt School), critical media theories, and new media theories. This field statement highlights how media culture offers fora and forms for ideological hegemony, assists in the reproduction of power relations, while also providing opportunities for resistance, empowerment, and political and social agency. Its secondary goals include exploring the extent to which media culture interacts with and even impinges upon other institutions in the formations of identities and to ascertain how media culture informs, and articulates itself within, the public sphere. 

My Postmodern Bodies Field Statement offers an historical survey of the body and how it is now conceived as both a postmodern text and a subject of postmodern discourse, which, in its theorized intertextuality, also becomes increasingly undreadable and non-discursive. This field statement traces the historical construction of the body from Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, which launched a mind/body dualism discourse that persists today, through recent theories of machine/human interfaces, biotechnologies, posthumanism and postgenderism. This field statement focuses on the body as both a biotechnological production and cultural construction, highlighting theories of subjectivity, embodiment, consciousness, bodily performances, identity, agency, what constitutes humanness, and the body's role in the body politic. 

I also collaborate with Robert Gehl, Professor of New Media, Department of Communication, at the University of Utah on the Digital Research Blog, an online forum dedicated to digital research and pedagogy. This blog is dedicated to digital research and pedagogy, with a focus on: a) on examining the research methods required to critique the aesthetics, economics, discourses, structure, and cultures of the Internet and Web; b) on discovering and developing Web and digital tools for teaching college students; and c) commenting on various trends in Internet discourse and policy relevant to teaching, including net neutrality, cyberwar discourse, and the development of virtual worlds and mobile computing.