EDUCATION
Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Loonie Toons: Canadian Commercial Animation’s Constellated Industry, 1969-2016
Supervisor: Alla Gadassik
University of Toronto (Ph.D. Cinema Studies–Thesis defended October 2021)
Constellated Media: Serial Stars, Feminist Film Historiography, and Intermedial Hollywood
Supervisor: Charlie Keil Committee: James Cahill, Nicholas Sammond, Corinn Columpar, Shelley Stamp
University of Toronto (M.A. Cinema Studies–Degree conferred November 2012)
Supervisor: Rob King
University of Alberta (B.A. Film Studies and History–Degree conferred June 2011, with distinction)
Red Deer College (B.A. transfer student—2006-2008)
TEACHING
University of Toronto (September-December 2026)
Sessional Lecturer, Cinema Studies (CIN210: The Horror Film)
Toronto Metropolitan University (September-December 2026)
Sessional Lecturer, Film + Photography Preservation and Collections Management Graduate program (PP8154: Early Cinema and its Preservation)
Emily Carr University of Art + Design (May-July 2026)
Sessional Lecturer (MHIS327: Studies in Animation History)
University of Toronto (September-December 2025)
Sessional Lecturer, Cinema Studies (CIN215: The Horror Film)
Toronto Metropolitan University (September-December 2025)
Sessional Lecturer, Film + Photography Preservation and Collections Management Graduate program (PP8154: Early Cinema and its Preservation)
University of Toronto, Scarborough (May-June 2025)
Sessional Lecturer, English (FLMC56: Adaptation Page to Screen—Dracula)
University of Toronto (January-May 2025)
Sessional Lecturer, Cinema Studies (CIN215: The Fantasy Film)
Toronto Metropolitan University (September-December 2024)
Sessional Lecturer, Film + Photography Preservation and Collections Management Graduate program (PP8154: Early Cinema and its Preservation)
University of Toronto, Scarborough (July-August 2024)
Sessional Lecturer, English (ENGC56: Adaptation Page to Screen—Dracula)
University of Toronto, Mississauga (May-June 2024)
Sessional Lecturer, Visual Studies (VCC 392: Saturday Morning Cartoons)
Toronto Metropolitan University (September-December 2023)
Sessional Lecturer, Film + Photography Preservation and Collections Management Graduate program (PP8154: Early Cinema and its Preservation)
University of Toronto, Mississauga (July-August 2023)
Sessional Lecturer, Visual Studies (VCC 390: Saturday Morning Cartoons)
University of Toronto, Scarborough (January-May 2023)
Sessional Lecturer, English (ENGC56: Adaptation Page to Screen— Dracula)
Toronto Metropolitan University (September-December 2022)
Sessional Lecturer, Film + Photography Preservation and Collections Management Graduate program (PP8154: Early Cinema and its Preservation)
University of Toronto, Mississauga (September-December 2022)
Sessional Lecturer, Visual Studies (VCC 490: Serialization)
University of Toronto, Mississauga (May-June 2022)
Sessional Lecturer, Visual Studies (VCC 290: Saturday Morning Cartoons)
University of Toronto (September-December 2021)
Course Instructor, Cinema Studies (CIN 322: Cult Cinema)
University of Toronto (May-September 2020)
Course Instructor, Cinema Studies (CIN 105Y: Introduction to Film Study)
University of Toronto (September-December 2017)
Course Instructor, Cinema Studies (CIN340—Special Topics in Cinema as Social and Cultural Practice: Seriality)
University of Toronto (September-December 2016)
Course Instructor, Cinema Studies/Book and Media Studies (CIN340/SMC301—Special Topics in Cinema as Social and Cultural Practice/Special Topics in Book and Media Studies: Seriality)
University of Toronto (January-May 2016)
Course Instructor, American Studies (USA402: American Serialized Media)
University of Toronto (September 2011 – September 2021)
Teaching Assistant/Grader, Cinema Studies (Science Fiction Film, American Popular Film Since 1970, Horror Film, Action Film, Film Cultures I & II, Introduction to Film Studies)
GRADUATE SUPERVISION
Toronto Metropolitan University, Film + Photography Preservation and Collections Management (January 2023-Present)
First Reader – Daniel Martin, “Incendiary Origins: Processing the William Hewitt Collection at the Library of Congress” (2025) -Library of Congress
First Reader – Joey Litvak, “From Private Reels to Public Specters: Ghost Representation and the Archival Evolution of Home Movies Through The Audrey Orr Collection” (2024) – Toronto International Film Festival Archives
First Reader – Samuel Joseph, “Castle Crashers: The Preservation of Non-Theatrical Films” (2023) – Library of Congress
ARCHIVAL FILM CURATION/EXHIBITION
Canadian Animation Treasures from the Film Library & Media Archives (University of Toronto – ongoing)
Peace & Happiness from Dale & Dave [16 & 35mm archival film presentation celebrating the work of animators Dale & Dave Cox, with artists in attendance]
The Devil & Daniel Mouse w/Early Nelvana Shorts [16 & 35mm archival film presentation, with director Clive Smith in attendance]
Chimneystack Film Society (York University – animation programmer for ongoing series highlighting 16mm library collections)
Fun Festival of World-Famous Animated Cartoons For 16mm Home Projectors: A Microhistory
Learn at Lot of Things from the Flowers: Selections from the Walt Disney Educational Media Company
CIN210 The Horror Film in Media Archives (University of Toronto – an undergraduate genre survey that reimagines the canon of horror through weekly screenings of 16 and 35mm prints in the Media Archives collections)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Editorial Assistant, Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema (edited by Charlie Keil and Rob King, 2024)
Research Assistant (assembled Full Professor promotion file for Professor Nic Sammond, 2018)
Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference Registration & Administration Assistant (2018)
Circulation Assistant, Innis College Library (2018)
Archival Research Assistant for the Early Cinema Filmography of Ontario (ECFO) (2014-2016)
University of Alberta, Kule Centre for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore – Research Assistant/Student Enrolment Liaison (2011)
EXTRACURRICULAR SERVICE
Programmer, Loonie Toons: Canadian Animation from the Media Commons Archives – Innis Town Hall (Ongoing)
Panelist, University of Toronto Cinema Studies Institute Grad School Info Session (Fall 2024)
TA Training Lead, University of Toronto Cinema Studies Institute (Fall 2020)
Graduate Student Member, CSI Pedagogy Subcommittee (Summer 2020)
Co-founder & Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Neutral Journal (September 2018-April 2021)
Graduate Student Representative, Innis College Revitalization Committee (May 2016-May 2017)
President, Cinema Studies Graduate Student Union (CSGSU), University of Toronto (September 2013 – September 2014)
Graduate Representative for Innis College Council, University of Toronto (September 2011- April 2012)
TEACHING ACHIEVEMENTS
Promoted to rank of Sessional Lectuer II at the Cinema Studies Institute (UofT) following extensive review process, 2024.
Member of CSI pedagogy group addressing topics such as assignment development and AI in the classroom.
Regular participant in F+PPCM Council meetings with four year’s experience supervising and advising on graduate student MRP projects.
Awarded “Sessional Instructor of the Year” at UTM-Visual Studies, 2022-2023.
Regular experience as workshop panelist on teaching at the University of Toronto.
PUBLICATIONS
Loonie Toons: The Canadian Animation Industry, 1974-2004 (McGill-Queens University Press, under contract – forthcoming 2028)
“Cel Fog over Bedrock Cities: Decrepit Space in Bootleg Hanna-Barbera Amusements” in The Hanna-Barbera Anthology, edited by Kevin Sandler. University of Texas Press (Forthcoming).
“Introduction: The Fossilization of a Period,” and “Scale and Detail: An Interview with Jennifer Baichwal,” with Matthew I. Thompson. The Neutral: Graduate Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 2 (2021), edited by Justin Morris and Matthew I. Thompson.
“King of the Whole Wide World: Elvis, RCA Camden, and the Non-Filmic ‘Budget’ Soundtrack” in The Soundtrack Album: Listening to Media, edited by Laurel Westrup and Paul N. Reinsch. New York: Routledge, 2020: 121-138.
“Suspended Animation: Ace Drummond, Buck Rogers, and the Sustained Desires of Seriality.” The Velvet Light Trap 79 (2017): 67-80.
“Read It Today, See It Tonight: Extratextuality and the Silent Film Serial.” Cineaction 94 (2014): 45-50.
“Then, one day, I got in: Computer Imaging, Realism, Tron.” Cineaction 89 (2013): 22-27.
BOOK REVIEWS
“Review—The Lost Jungle: Cliffhanger Action and Hollywood Serials of the 1930s and 1940s by Guy Barefoot.” Canadian Journal of Film Studies 27.2: 113-115.
“Their Satanic Majesties’ Celluloid Regret” (review of Rock ‘N’ Film: Cinema’s Dance with Popular Music by David E. James) Discourse 40.1 (Winter 2018): 132-137.
CONFERENCE PAPERS/TALKS
“Five Field Repeat Pan: Hanna-Barbera, Nelvana, and ‘Limited Animation’ in Canada,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (March 2026)
“Chat Cult: Pandemic Pedagogies,” Film Studies Association of Canada Conference (May 2023)
“Towards a Theory of Constellated Media,” Film Studies Association of Canada Conference (May 2022)
“Constellated Media: Serial Stars, Feminist Film Historiography, and Intermedial Hollywood,” TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto Film and Media Seminar: Crossing the Finish Line (April 2022)
“Anne Murray’s MOR Feminism,” University of Toronto, Cinema Studies Graduate Student Union Conference: Friendship (January 2020)
“She’s an Ichthyologist,” or, What Happened to Dale Evans?” University of British Columbia, Film Studies Association of Canada Conference (June 2019)
“‘We Shouldn’t Make Any More Of Them:’ Intermediality, American Series Media, and Comet Productions (1946-1947),” University of Toronto, Centre for the Study of the United States (CSUS) Graduate Student Workshop (March 2018)
“Many Items Bear The Name: The King of the Cowboys’ Intermedial Distribution of Stuff,” Ryerson University, Circuits of Cinema—HoMER Network Conference (June 2017)
“Dylan in Canada: Thoughts Towards a “Rock” Hinterland,” Ryerson University, Film Studies Association of Canada Conference (May 2017)
“Join the Dodge Rebellion!: Serializing Nostalgia in 1960s American Television Advertising,” Chicago, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (March 2017)
“The thing does not belong to any world: Skellig Michael, The Force Awakens, and the Footprint of Nostalgic Filmmaking,” University of Toronto, Sitelines
Grad Conference (February 2016) “Buck Rogers 1939: Cross-media and the Plateau of Suspended Animation,” Montreal, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (March 2015)
“Author, Not Star: Universal Pictures, King Features, and Cross-Media Serialization,” University of California-Berkeley, Serialities 1915/2015: The 3rd International Berkeley Conference on Film & Media (February 2015)
“History/Historiography,” State of the (Expanding) Field: Exploring Cinema and Media Studies Today – TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto Film and Media Seminar (January 2015)
“Barbecue Bill was a Mountie: Locating the Northern in Poverty Row Hollywood,” University of Nottingham, Culture and Canada-US Border Conference (June 2014)
“Big Little Books: A Case Study in the Material Culture of the Cinema,” Brock University, Film Studies Association of Canada Conference (May 2014)
“A Primer for The Anthology of American Folk Music: Crafting a Radio Documentary,” Chicago, PCA/ACA National Conference (April 2014)
“Robots in Cowboy Hats: Hollywood Sound Serials and the Hinterland Audience,” University of Toronto, Centre for the Study of the United States (CSUS) Graduate Student Workshop (February 2014)
“Pearl of the Army: Pearl White and World War One,” University of Toronto, World War One on Film Conference (January 2014)
“
A Continually Metamorphosing Dream: Seriality, Surreality, and Houdini, the Ungraspable Escape Artist,” Niagara Falls, Popular Culture Association of Canada Conference (May 2013)
“Tying Women to Railroad Tracks: Film Serials and the Televisual Remake,” University of Toronto, Cinema and Television Graduate Colloquium (February 2013)
“Go To-day, To-morrow, or Some Other Day This Week and See for Yourself: Extratextual Freedom and the Silent Film Serial,” Niagara Falls, Popular Culture Association of Canada Conference (May 2012)
“We’ve Never Been Back: Restorative Nostalgia and Cinematic Trips to the Moon,” University of Toronto, Cinema and Nostalgia Graduate Colloquium (March 2012)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Archival research conducted at the University of Toronto Media Commons Archives; University of Southern California Cinematic Arts Library; University of California, Los Angeles Film & Television Archive; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science Margaret Herrick Library; Ball State University Archives
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2025-2027)
Sessional Instructor Award for Excellence in Visual Culture, University of Toronto Department of Visual Studies (2022-2023)
Vivienne Poy Chancellor’s Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2018-2019)
Centre for the Study of the United States (CSUS) Graduate Research Award (2017)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral CGS (2015-2018)
Robert Lantos Cinema Studies Scholarship (2014-2015)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2013-2014)
Atom Egoyan Cinema Studies Scholarship (2013-2014)
University of Alberta Press Book Prize for Best Essay on Canadian Cinema (2011)
CONSULTING
Sound Diplomacy (March 2023 – May 2025)
Senior Researcher, Author, and Editor of Cultural & Creative Industries Reports for clients including UNESCO (Pacific Islands; Zimbabwe); The Recording Academy; The Andy Warhol Museum; Delaware Arts Alliance; Terrain Spokane
