Welcome

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 and feminist history and theory.  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 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. Women and Global Documentary: Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025), an anthology I edited with Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi contains new research on these issues. My latest research projects focus on the history of psychoanalysis and especially the roles played by women in Freud’s Viennese circle in the interwar 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 Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology.