Media Appearances

“Suspicion” - Pod45 by Post45 Contemporaries

“ClassGPT” -Vox’s Today, Explained / NPR

“Reality TV” - Don’t Drink the Milk

“The Art of the Recap” -The Corner Table: Top Chef Wisconsin

“I May Be Short, But Good Things Come in Small Packages” - Historians on Housewives

“The Rehearsal, Reality TV, & Warner Bros Discovery” - The American Vandal Podcast

“Reality TV” - High Theory

“Dark Academia” - Pod45 by Post45 Contemporaries

Selected Invited Talks

The Lovett School, “Qualitative Research Methods,” January 2026

Chicago Review / Mid Theory Collective, “How to Pitch Public Writing,” October 2025

University of Michigan, “Social Media Reception Analysis,” April 2025

University of South Carolina, “Vernacular Aesthetic Categories: Mid,” April 2024

University of Southern California, “Writing about Reality TV,” January 2024

The Master’s School, “Reality TV Now,” January 2024

New York University, “Writing and Editing for the Public,” October 2023

Villanova University, “Applying to PhD Programs in the Humanities,” October 2023

University of Chicago, “Affect and Scale in The Real Housewives,” May 2023

The Master’s School, “What Is Reality Television?” January 2023

Villanova University, “Applying to PhD Programs in the Humanities,” October 2021

Service

TV Scholarly Interest Group Graduate Student Representative, SCMS‍ ‍April 2024 – present

Mid Theory Collective Founding Editor June 2024 – present

Steering Committee Member, Post45 Graduate SymposiumMarch 2024 – June 2026

Seminar Chair, University of Michigan Dept of CommunicationAugust 2024 – May 2025

Communication Department Steward, Graduate Employees Organization May 2022 – May 2024

Media Studies Research Workshop Co-Coordinator, University of MichiganJune 2022 – June 2023

Ad-Hoc Journal Reviews

  • Television and New Media

  • Critical Studies in Media Communication

  • European Journal of Cultural Studies

  • Signs Journal

  • Post45 Peer Reviewed

  • Deliberately Queer Journal

  • The New Americanist

  • International Communication Association