Teaching

I currently teach at Western University and Fanshawe College as an adjunct lecturer. This means each term I’m doing something a little different! For the past two years I have taught “Intro to Trans Studies” in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies department, and this year I’m taking over the Animation/Anime course this Spring. I’ve taught introductory writing at Fanshawe for the past three years.

Download my current CV here.

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From my Students:

‘Although this isn't the first film studies course I have taken, it is objectively the most focused on trying to achieve a sense of fair criticism. The difference in styles, as well as genres, was very enjoyable to study and explore on a deeper, more serious level while we could still watch films that maybe some of us hadn't watched beforehand. [...] I think I view films more critically now, as a whole.’

‘I am so much more interested in film! I originally took this course as an elective and I had no expectations. After engaging in the content I have a whole new appreciation for movies and film! I have enjoyed talking about this course with my classmates. I also feel like I have a lot of movie-watching ahead of me. I currently have a list of movies I want to watch and I want to continue to be engaged in film culture, even when this course is over.’

‘I've learned a great deal about the nuances of filmmaking through assignments, discussions, and practical experience, which has greatly increased my understanding and proficiency in this area. Furthermore, exchanging ideas with colleagues and getting criticism has improved my educational process and helped me hone my skills even more. All things considered, I can say with certainty that this course has not only assisted me in reaching my own objectives, but it has also created a greater enthusiasm for filmmaking in me.’

‘By the end of the semester, I could confidently say that my critical thinking skills had significantly evolved in the realm of films.’

‘This class not only taught me about cinema but also made my college experience more enjoyable and meaningful.’

‘Pretty much everything about the content of this course went above and beyond my expectations.’

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Current Courses

Intro to Trans Studies (200-level)
Animation/Anime (200-level)

Previous Courses

Hollywood: The Viewer’s Perspective (100-level)
- see final project website here!
Reason and Writing (99-level)

Teaching Assistantships

Animation / Anime (200-level)
Disney Dream Factory (200-level)
Intro to Film (100-level)

Dream Courses

Global Animation (200-level)
Feminine, Queer, and Trans Subjects in Psychoanalysis (Grad Seminar)
Postmodernism and the Unconscious (300-level)
Frank Herbert’s Dune (100-level)

Scholarship

Presentations & Papers

“Transnormativity in Transmasculine Graphic Memoir” [here]

• Presentation: “Transnormativity in Transmasculine Graphic Narratives”, Comics Studies Society Conference “Resistant, Resilient, and Resolute: Social Justice and Comics” at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, July 10 2025 [download .pdf of slides]

• Presentation: “Transmasculine Girlhood in Graphic Memoir”, International Comics Art Forum at San Diego State University, April 10 2025

• Publication: Norm-critical Perspectives in Comics, Palgrave, eds. Robert Aman and Lars Wallner (Linköping University)

“Crip Time and Comics Formalism: Disabled Temporalities in Graphic Memoir” [here]

• Publication: Disability and Comics Springer Handbook, eds. Andrew Lucchesi (Western Washington University), Crystal Lie (California State University Long Beach), and José Alaniz (University of Washington)

“Keying Into Ambient Music: Attending to Soundscapes as Phenomenological Practice” [here]

• Presentation: Sound Meaning Education: CONVERSATIONS & improvisations 2023, International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) at University of Guelph, October 22

• Publication: Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation Journal, ed. Sam Boer (University of Guelph)

“Visualizing Crip/Queer Time in Comics Life Writing: A Meta-Autobiographical Graphic Essay” [here]

• Presentation: “Confronting Temporal Hegemony: A Comic of Crip/Queer Resistance” Thinking Trans // Trans Thinking Conference (virtual), October 28-9 2022

• Presentation: “Crip/Queer Temporalities and Potentials for Futurity”, Simon Fraser University Humanities Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium (virtual), March 25 2022

• Publication: Comics and Life: Illustration, Intersections, and Insights, Palgrave Handbook, eds. Smita Jha, Abhilasha Gusain, and Amritha R Krishnan (Indian Institute of Technology)

“Book Review: They Shot the Piano Player the Graphic Novel”

• Publication: International Journal of Comic Art, Vol 27 No. 1, eds. John Lent and Mike Rhode

“Minimalist Biological Sex and Evolutionary Existentialism” [download .docx here]

• Presentation: Michigan State University Graduate Conference in Philosophy, March 25 2023

Dissertation Chapters…

"The Man in the Mirror: Trans Subjectivity and Lacan in Autobiographical Comics" [here]

• Presentation: Comics Studies Society '21 Re/Building Community (virtual), August 6 2021

"THOT Experiment: Trans Selfie Culture and Lacan’s Ideal Ego" [here]

• Presentation: Digital Immaterialities, Concordia University (virtual), May 26 2021

Master’s Thesis…

"4dtime.space: Comics in the Fourth Dimension" [here]

• Presentation: International Comics Art Forum (virtual), Jan 7 2021

• Presentation: VCS Symposium (virtual), Chicago, IL, April 29 2020