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I am a writer, painter, and scholar of 20th-21st century film and art. I am also an art and film critic who believes in the communicative power of public writing, as can be gleaned from my regular contributions to Artforum and other publications. Although I consider myself as much an artist as an academic, I was trained in the history and theory of cinema, critical theory, and American literature. I find it impossible to consider aesthetics without also considering their political implications. It should thus come as no surprise that I favor politically radical and formally experimental aesthetics over mainstream culture. Some of the central questions that animate my research are: What are the politics of form in this artwork? How do these politics inform the work鈥檚 meaning and mode of address? And鈥攕ince I often write in the first person鈥攈ow does my own individual investment in work dynamize or complicate my understanding of it? In addition to writing extensively about avant-garde film, I also write about queer sexuality, gender, and motherhood in cinematic and artistic representations of the postwar period.听听

I am currently completing two book projects, both of which I have grappled with for nearly a decade. The first, The Pedophilic Imagination: A History of American Cinema, is a revisionary account that foregrounds the integral role that representations of intergenerational and interracial intimacy have played in the development of American cinema. My other book, an experimental memoir entitled Between Her Body and the Stain, is a love letter to my dead mother that tries to come to terms with the contradictions of grief, desire, caretaking, and creativity.听

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