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I am an Associate Professor of Visual & Performing Arts in the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas. My research and publications focus primarily on documentary film history and theory and feminist studies. My first book, Subject to Reality: Women and Documentary (U of Illinois Press, 2019), tells the stories of women documentary filmmakers from two key periods: the 1920s and 30s and the 1970s. I trace a throughline in the history of feminist documentary that shows the ways women consistently and creatively worked through questions of empire, race, class, sexuality, difference, and solidarity. I have also written about contemporary feminist documentaries, especially films that advocate for justice for marginalized people or raise awareness about urgent political crises, such as sexual harassment and violence, environmental demise, and reproductive rights. My latest research projects focus on the history of psychoanalysis and especially the roles played by women in Freud’s Viennese circle in the inter-war years. 

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I am also the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies where I oversee matters from admissions to graduation for approximately 300 graduate students in sixteen degree programs offered in the Bass School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology.

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