I study visual culture and media aesthetics, comparing old and new forms of visual media to ask how they shape fundamental ways of seeing and knowing.

I teach in the Art Department at Stony Brook University, where I am affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Computational Science. I direct Graduate Programs in Art History as well as an interdepartmental Certificate in Media, Art, Culture, and Technology.

I earned a doctorate from UC Berkeley in Rhetoric with Emphases in Film and in New Media, a hands-on master’s degree in Interactive Telecommunications (ITP) from NYU, and an undergraduate degree in English from Princeton.

I am on the board of the Journal of Visual Culture where I enjoyed serving as an editor for almost a decade.