I am a scholar of feminist philosophy, contemporary critical theory, and cultural studies, a media critic, and an educator.

In 2021, I held a research fellowship in affiliation with the Program in Critical Theory and the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. I previously taught at the University of North Texas and at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

My research employs intersectional feminist philosophies to analyze the politics around representation of race, gender, and sexuality in various types of media and in public discourse.

I am an active member of the Comics Studies Society and served on the Executive Board as Social Strategist from 2018–2021. In May 2023 I was re-elected to the Board as the First Vice President and am currently leading the organization of CSS’s annual conference, “Glitching Comics.” I will finish my time on the Board by serving as the President in the 2024 academic year.

In 2017 I organized a conference on monstrous women in comics. It resulted in the edited volume Monstrous Women in Comics with a number of incredible contributions.

In 2019 I co-organized an interdisciplinary conference on Star Wars episodes 7–9 called Realizing Resistance. The proceedings were published in the online journal Unbound. I also co-organized the sequel to this conference, Realizing Resistance II: Uncharted Galaxies, which took place in May 2021. I am the lead organizer for the third conference of this trilogy, Realizing Resistance III: The Expanding Universe which took place in May 2023.

I also regularly present my research to the scholarly community at both national and international conferences. For a full list of presentations, see my CV. Representative presentations include:

• “‘A Willful Method’: Searching for Feminist Superheroes,” at the Annual Comics Studies Society Conference, Collections, Archives, Cultures (East Lansing, MI, July 2022).

• “‘I woulda killed for a treehouse when I was a kid’: Reading Saga Through an Ecocritical Lens,” at the Comic Arts Conference at Comic-Con International (San Diego, July 2022).

• “‘As much of the monstrous as the pretty’: Analyzing Jack Kirby’s Hela and Silver Age Gender Norms,” at the PCA/ACA Annual Conference (April 2022, Online).

• “Not All Heroes Wear Spandex: A Reparative Feminist Reading of Night Nurse,” at the Comic Arts Conference at WonderCon (Anaheim, April 2022).

• “Dousing the Flames of the Phoenix: Female Power & Sexuality in Marvel Comics,” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference (Online, 2021).

• “Princesses with Glowing Swords, Frenemies, and Imperial Clones: A Comparative Analysis of Star Wars VII, VIII & IX and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power,” at Realizing Resistance Episode II: Uncharted Galaxies (Online, 2021).

• “‘Physical Feminism’ in Female-led Superhero Comics: Analyzing Violence, Gender & Race,” at the International Comic Arts Forum Annual Conference (Online, 2020).

• “‘You’re like me’: Intersectional Strengths and Weaknesses in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)” at The Essay Film Form and Animation: Intersectionality in Motion Conference (London, 2019).