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 Symposium March 2024 – June 2026
Seminar Chair, University of Michigan Dept of Communication August 2024 – May 2025
Communication Department Steward, Graduate Employees Organization May 2022 – May 2024
Media Studies Research Workshop Co-Coordinator, University of Michigan June 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