Scholar in Residence
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Joined the faculty in 2005

Ph.D., Syracuse University
M.A., Syracuse University
B.A., Alfred University

Current scholarly interests:
American cinema from the Post World War II era to the Present; British cinema; American-Jewish Images in the Media; Medical Culture; British Media in the Thatcher Era.

Previous teaching experience:
Syracuse University Upstate Medical Center
Northwestern University

Courses Routinely Taught:
Introduction to Media Medicine
Society and Media
The Films of Spielberg
The Seventies in American Media and Culture
American Film Genres
Imagining the West

Recent Publications:

Citizen Spielberg (University of Illinois Press, 2006)

Fires Were Started (Wallflower Press, 2006)

American Cinema of the 1970s (Rutgers University Press, 2006)

Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media (Duke University Press, 2004)

Personal Statement:
As someone who teaches a variety of approaches to the media, I am interested in how the mass production of images both reflects and refracts American culture. How do we see ourselves as a society? How do other cultures see us? What are our communal dreams and nightmares? How does the reproduction of images shape our private and public lives? These are the intellectual and practical issues that engage me.