Publications
Books
Subject to Reality: Women and Documentary.
University of Illinois Press, March 2019.
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Women and Global Documentary: Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century.
Co-edited collection with Najmeh Rizi Moradiyan. Bloomsbury Press, Forthcoming February 2025.
In Progress
​The Exhibitionist.
A translation of La Exhibicionista, a book of poetry by Ana
Lamela Rey (Madrid, Spain: Ediciones GGP, 2014).
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Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
“Sexuality and Discourses of Care in Feminist Documentary."
Feminist Media Histories 9.1 (Winter 2022): 1432.
with Beatriz Balanta, “Revolution is Another Climax.”
Women & Language 44.2 (Fall 2021): 204-242. Winner of the
2022 Patty Sotirin Women & Language Award.
Book review: “Beyond the Silver Screen: A History of Women, Filmmaking and Film Culture in Australia 1920–1990.”
Australian Historical Studies, 49.4 (Nov 2018): 557–558.
“The Mysteries of Voice: Transnational Feminist Documentary.”
Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 31.2.92
(Fall 2016): 119-147.
“Abortion, Abortion, Abortion Still: Documentary Show and Tell.”
South Atlantic Quarterly 114.4 (October 2015): 755-779.
Film Review: “I Am Somebody (Madeline Anderson, 1969).”
Films for the Feminist Classroom 4.2 (2013).
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“Recognition on the Surface of Madeline Anderson’s I Am Somebody (1969).”
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38.2 (2013):
353 – 378.
“Consciousness-Raising and Difference in The Woman’s
Film (1971) and Self-Health (1974).”
Jump Cut 54 (Fall 2012).
“By, For, and About: The ‘Real’ Problem of the Feminist Film Movement.”
Mediascape: UCLA’s Journal of Film and Media Studies (2008).
Special Journal Issues: with Merry Jett, eds., “Special Feature: Violence.”
Films for the Feminist Classroom 6.1 (August 2015).
Public-Facing Academic Work
“Researching the Life and Work of Marie Bonaparte.”
Freud Museum Website (2022).
with Pooja Rangan and Courtney Stephens, “To Describe the World: A Conversation with Courtney Stephens.”
Another Gaze (Feb 2021).
Book Chapters
with Julia Lesage, “It Was There All Along: An Intergenerational Dialog about Feminism, Realism, and Documentary.”
No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving
Image (MIT Press, 2022).
“Vérite: Lauren Greenfield and the Limits of Feminist Documentary.”
Reclaiming Popular Documentary, edited by Christie Milliken
and Steve Anderson (Indiana University Press, 2021).
“Hum, Buzz, Gurgle: Non-human Voices in Poetic Ecodocs.”
Vocal Projections: The Voice in Documentary edited by Maria
Pramaggiore and Bella Honness Roe (Bloomsbury Press, 2018).
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Presentations
Selected Oral Presentations at Professional Conferences
“Politicizing Sexuality & Care in Feminist Documentary.”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Denver, CO. April 2023.
“Why Orgasm?”
American Comparative Literature Association. Chicago, IL.
March 2023.
“Feminist Vérité: Lauren Greenfield.”
Visible Evidence XXVII. Frankfurt, Germany (virtual). December
2021. Presenter.
“Alternative Histories of Psychoanalysis: Female Sexuality and Marie Bonaparte.”
American Comparative Literature Association. Chicago, IL
(virtual). April 2021. Chair and presenter.
“Orgasmicinemas: The Politics of Good Sex and Radical Sexuality.”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Denver, CO. March 2021
(virtual). Chair and presenter.
“Orgasmicinemas: The Politics of Good Sex and Radical Sexuality.”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Denver, CO. April 2020.
Chair and presenter. [Canceled]
“Alternative Histories of Psychoanalysis: Female Sexuality and Marie Bonaparte.”
American Comparative Literature Association. Chicago, IL.
March 2020. Chair and presenter. [Canceled]
“Racial Politics and Imagined Solidarity in Feminist Docs of the 1970s.”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Seattle, WA. March 2019.
Chair and presenter.
“Life and Death in Feminist Documentary: Mireria Sallarès’s Las muertes chiquitas (2008).”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Toronto, Canada. March
2018. Chair and presenter.
“The 1970s: Return, Recognition, and Redistribution in Feminist Theory and Practice.”
US Intellectual History Conference. Dallas, TX. October 2017.
Chair and Respondent.
“Feminist Observation: Lauren Greenfield and the Limits of Feminist Documentary.”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago, IL. March 2017.
Accepted, unable to attend.
“The Long History of Women in Documentary.”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Atlanta, GA. March 2016.
Presenter.
“Ethnography and Feminist Media.”
American Comparative Literature Association. Cambridge, MA.
March 2016. Presenter.
“Abortion Still: Documentary Show and Tell.”
Visible Evidence XXII. Toronto, Canada. August 2015. Presenter.