TEACHING‍
2024 | “Geometry of a Ghost: Chicago Footwork, Dance Filmmaking and Community Organizing” Keynote lecture and screening at Japan Black Studies Association Conference in Tokyo.
2024 | “Icy Lake: Community Filmmaking and Electronic Dance Music in Gay New York City.” Lecture and screening at Jissen Women’s University, Gender Studies Center in Tokyo.
2023 | Visiting lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Department of Visual and Critical Studies, created and taught the class Tilt: Issues in Visual Culture, an undergraduate seminar in Chicago, IL *
2021 | Presented my short film Dancer of Time at NYU in a presentation focused on Dr. Romi Crawford’s edited collection Fleeting Monuments to the Wall of Respect. The event was led by Dr. Deborah Willis and NYU’s Center for Black Visual Culture.
2019-20 | Teaching fellow at Yale University in African American Studies + Film/Media Studies | Co-taught Archive Aesthetics & Community Storytelling and Family Narratives/Cultural Shifts with Professor Thomas Allen Harris in New Haven, CT *
2016-2017 | Teaching fellow at Yale University in American Studies + Film/Media Studies | Co-taught Documentary Filmmaking Workshop with Professor Charles Musser | New Haven, CT *
2012-2016 | Yale University | Presented talks and screenings at the Beinecke Library’s digital lab series, the Critical Encounters lecture series hosted by the Department of American Studies, and the Performance Studies Working Group in New Haven, CT
2014 | Icy Lake | Screened documentary film at “The Fun and the Fury: New Dialectics of Pleasure and Pain In the Post-American Century,” American Studies Association Conference in Los Angeles, CA
* Semester-long courses