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Biography

After an earlier incarnation as a singer-songwriter-musician in London (ah, the 鈥�80s), I am pleased to have found a home in the Department of Film, Audio, Media Arts since 2015. I explore film genre (horror, noir, sci-fi, action, Western), film history, race, gender, and technology in film and television, digital aesthetics, and cinematic urban architecture in teaching, conference presentations, research and publishing. My fifteen seconds of fame occurred when I played a pivotal role 鈥� 鈥淭hird-Class Survivor鈥� 鈥� in Titanic (1997), now archived in the wilds of YouTube as 鈥淒eleted Scene #29.鈥� I hope this isn鈥檛 a metaphor. 

Teaching

• Film History
• Genre Theory and Criticism: Horror Cinema
• City Cinema: Film Noir, Romance, and Action in the Urban Environment
• Media, Culture, and Society
• Special Topics: History of Action Cinema; Contemporary Non-Fiction Cinema: Cultural & Social Impacts; Body Image through History; Principles of Film and Media Production
• The Wild Western: Dark and Light Worlds

Publications

Book

Home Screens: Public Housing in Global Film and Television, Editor and Author (鈥淚ntroduction: Public Housing in Global Film and Television鈥� and 鈥淐h. 1, Uncanny Architecture: Haunted Structures in Candyman and The Pruitt-Igoe Myth鈥�), London: Bloomsbury Academic (Nov. 2023).

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• 鈥淯ntethered Technology in Gravity: Gender and Spaceflight from Science Fact to Fiction,鈥� Science Fiction Film and Television, Special Issue: 鈥淲hen the Astronaut is a Woman: Beyond the Frontier in Film and Television,鈥� co-edited with Dr. Lisa Purse, University of Reading, UK (2019).
• 鈥淏lood in the Corridor: The Digital Mastery of Hero-Run Shootouts in Kick-Ass and Wanted,鈥� Journal of Popular Film and Television, co-authored with Dr. Stuart Bender, Curtin University, Australia (2017).
• 鈥淐ranked Masculinity: Hypermediation in Digital Action Cinema,鈥� Cinema Journal (2012).
• 鈥淏lack Man/White Machine: Will Smith Crosses Over,鈥� The Velvet Light Trap (2011).
• 鈥淩uby Red and Emerald Green: The Queer Demon Diva of My Dreams,鈥� Camera Obscura (2008).
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• 鈥淲ith All Due Retrospect: The Essential Harold Lloyd,鈥� Film & History (2005).

BOOK CHAPTERS

• "Hong Kong Starchitecture and Action Sci-Fi Cinema," in Cinematic Starchitecture: The Celebrity Status of Urban Architectural Structures in Film, Routledge (2025).
• 鈥淢arket Forces: James Bond, Women of Color, and the Eastern Bazaar,鈥� in The Cultural Life of James Bond: Specters of 007, Amsterdam University Press (2020).
• 鈥淎 Digital Nature: Lucy Takes Technology for a Ride,鈥� in A Companion to the Action Film, Wiley-Blackwell (2019).
• 鈥淔emale Leadership, Sacrifice, and Technological Mastery on Star Trek: Voyager,鈥� in To Boldly Go: Essays on Gender and Identity in the Star Trek Universe, McFarland & Co. (2017).
• 鈥淭he Road to Lordsburg: Rural Masculinity in Supernatural,鈥� in TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Roadmap of Supernatural, ECW Press (2011).
• 鈥淪he鈥檚 Just a Girl: A Cyborg Passes in The Sarah Connor Chronicles,鈥� in Across the Screens: Science Fiction Film, Television, and Adaptations, Routledge (2011).
• 鈥溾�楲e Western Noir鈥�: The Punisher as Revisionist Superhero Western,鈥� in The Amazing Transforming Superhero! Essays on the Revision of Characters in Comic Books, Film and Television, Routledge & Co. (2007).