I am Assistant Professor of Screen Studies in the Department of English at Oklahoma State University. I received my Ph.D. in Critical Studies from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, where I also completed the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate program. I hold a masters degree in Comparative Media Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During my doctoral work, I was a Fulbright Advanced Student Fellow to France and a Fellow of the Social Science Research Council's International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF). My book manuscript (in progress) -- based on my dissertation, Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology and Early Cinema -- examines the history of film studios in the U.S., France, and Britain before World War I.