Research Summary
I'm an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and on the core faculty of the Environmental Humanities Graduate Program. My work as an active teacher and researcher is in the areas of media aesthetics, environmental communication, and rhetorical theory. Generally, I try to draw on the insights of these fields to think about the material, aesthetic, and affective practices that configure the environments we create and inhabit.
Education
- B.A., English, Amherst College
- M.A., Humanities, University of Chicago
- Ph.D., Communication, University of Colorado - Boulder
Biography
Before becoming an academic, I worked for several years as a freelance writer. Though the arts remain central to my interests, my academic training across the humanities commits me to cross-disciplinary thinking with the belief that we should bring all available knowledge to the problems we're trying to understand.