Education

• Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, Mass Communications, 2012
• M.A. Pennsylvania State University, Media Studies, 2009

Honors and Awards

• Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching 2021
• Open SUNY Online Teaching Ambassador 2019
• Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award 2011

Areas of Research

• Nostalgia
• Science Fiction media
• Representations of the past in media

Selected Publications

• Existential Science Fiction, Lexington Press (forthcoming 2021).
• Subjective Experiences of Interactive Nostalgia (editor), Peter Lang Publishing (2019).
• Nostalgic Generations and Media: Perception of Time and Available Meaning, Lexington Press (2017).
• Mediated Nostalgia: Individual Memory and Contemporary Mass Media, Lexington Press (2014).
• “The ‘Looking Into the Past’ Photographs: Comparing and Sharing the Past.” Visual Communication Quarterly (2016).
• “Bioshock: Complex and Alternate Histories.” Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Game Research, 14.1 (2014).

Teaching

• COM 242: Field and Studio Video Production
• COM 341: Video and Communication
• COM 350: Visual Thinking and Writing
• COM/IDS 380: Critical Perspectives on Digital Society
• IDS 302: Postmodernism and Popular Culture
• IDT 501: Social Information Theory
• IDT 510: Social Media
• IDT 507: Information Technologies
• IDT 523: Digital Narratives
• IDT 590: Topics: Visual Thinking and Digital Media

Professional Service

• Communications and Humanities Department Chair
• CMD program coordinator