Assistant Professor, Department of Culture and Media

Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School

Assistant Professor, Department of English

Michigan State University

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Culture and Media

Brown University

Ph.D. in Modern Culture and Media

Brown University, Providence, RI

M.A. in Modern Culture and Media

Brown University, Providence, RI

B.S. summa cum laude in Psychology

Excelsior College, Albany, NY

Undead Labor: Capitalism’s Zombie Workers

University of Minnesota Press. Forthcoming November 2026.

“Data as Symbolic Form: Datafication and the Imaginary Media of W. E. B. Du Bois”

In “Surplus Data: On the New Life of Quantity,” special issue of Critical Inquiry, vol. 48, no. 2 (Winter 2022)

“Analogy in Ruins: Populism, Transgression, and the Zombie”

Culture Machine 19 (2020)

“Loops within Loops: Reflections on the Work of Marco Brambilla”

Flow, vol. 23, Special Issue: Loop Media. University of Texas Austin.

“The automaton in all of us: GIFs, cinemagraphs, and the films of Martin Arnold”

Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), vol. 3, no. 2 (December 2014), pp. 178–192

“Toaster-Frakkers and Remote Controls: Technophilia, Cylons, and the Archival Drive”

Flow, vol. 7. University of Texas Austin.

“A Philosophy of Refraction: Vilém Flusser’s Speculative Biology and the Study of Paramedia”

In Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism, ed. Aaron Jaffe, Rodrigo Martini, and Michael Miller. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

“Boutique Ethnicity: On African Ancestry and Neoliberal Economies of the Self”

In The Postcolonial World, ed. Jyotsna Singh and David D. Kim. New York and London: Routledge.

“In the Grip of the Past: Haunting, Possession, and Repetition in the Culture Industry”

Calibano no. 7: The turn of the screw / dove abita la paura

“Media Prophylaxis: Reality TV in the Time of COVID-19”

Themed week on “Pandemic Media,” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project (April 2020)

“White Nostalgia”

In “Stranger Things and Nostalgia Now,” special cluster ed. Joel Burges and Jason Middleton, Post45 Contemporaries (July 2019)

“Necrorealism: Turning Bare Life into Art” (parts I & II)

All the Russias, NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia (February 2018)

“Consuming Ourselves: Capitalism, Media, and the Zombie Apocalypse”

Los Angeles Review of Books, Special Issue (Fall 2013)

Review of Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity by Brenda R. Weber

The Information Society, vol. 28, no. 1

Digital Doppelgänger: The Second Life of Living Labor

Book manuscript in progress.

Possession: Paranoia in the House of Being

Book manuscript in progress.

“‘Grown Used to It’: Time and Black Horror in Ganja & Hess”

In preparation for Esoteric Inhumanisms, ed. vol. under review with Duke University Press, submitted Spring 2025.

“‘Deep and Dreamless Slumber’: Sleep as a Scene of Command”

In preparation for an edited volume on sleep and horror media; expected submission Summer 2026.

“The Space Between Samples: The Pixel and the Digital Imaginary”

In preparation for JCMS (Journal of Cinema and Media Studies); expected submission Spring 2026.

Faculty Fellow, Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy

University Fellowship, The New School

Workshop Member, I’ll Sleep when I’m Undead: A Writer’s Workshop on 21st Century Horror Media

McGill University, Montreal, QC

Visiting Scholar, Digital Theory Lab

New York University

Faculty Fellow, Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence

University Fellowship, The New School

Lang Summer Learning Community Grant

The New School — learning community on “uncanny networks”

Lilly Teaching Fellowship

University Fellowship, Michigan State University

Bernard E. Bruce Award

Graduate School, Brown University

John Carnegie MacMillan Graduate Fellowship, Cogut Center for the Humanities

Brown University

HASTAC Scholar

Brown University

5th Year Dissertation Fellowship

Brown University

Graduate Fellow, Pembroke Seminar: The Question of Identity in Psychoanalysis

Brown University

Graduate Travel Fellowship, Real Things Conference

York University, UK

Tuition Fellowship, School of Criticism and Theory

Cornell University

Bernard Edwin Bruce Endowed Fellowship

Brown University

“Extracted Twice: The Doubling of Digital Labor, or, AI in the Postcolony”

On Technopolitical Form in the Global South — Columbia University, New York

“Encounters in the Terrain of the Self: Possession and Restorative Practice”

American Anthropological Association (AAA) — New Orleans, LA

“Large Language Models of the Other: A Semiotics of the Token”

Chat Token Vector: Questioning Models of Language and Neo-Structuralism in AI — Ca’Foscari University Venice, Italy (Invited Talk)

“Dalí Dreams of Perpetual Labor: AI and the Digital Zombie”

“The World As It Is: Celebrating Collective Transformation” — The New School, New York, NY

“Luxe Bodies and the Feeling of Surplus”

Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) — CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY

“Media Approaches to the Illegible”

Association of Postcolonial Thought — UMass Amherst, MA

“Dalí Dreams of Perpetual Labor: AI and the Digital Zombie”

MACT Lecture Series — SUNY Stony Brook (Invited Talk)

“Dead Links and Zombie Processes” (in conversation with Tamara Kneese)

Inaugural Code at Lang Colloquium — The New School, New York, NY

“Afrosurrealism as Method”

Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Meeting — Boston, MA

“Between Samples: ChatGPT and the Space of the Digital Imaginary”

Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) — Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

“The Space Between Samples”

Re-Interpretation: Hermeneutics in the Age of AI — NYU Center for the Humanities (Invited Talk)

“The Space Between Samples: On the Digital Imaginary”

Large Language Models and Culture — NYU Prague and Institute of Czech Literature, Prague (Invited Talk)

“The Uncanny Vitality of the Zombie”

Zombie Studies Talk Series — University of North Florida (Invited Talk)

“Capitalist Surrealism: Undead Time and the Digital Zombie”

Temporal Mediations and Digital Capitalism Conference — University of Pennsylvania (Invited Talk)

“‘Grown Used to It’: Time and Black Horror”

Cultural Studies lecture series on Occult Natures — University of Indiana, Bloomington (Invited Talk)

“Undead Labor: On the Uncanny Vitality of the Zombie”

CORÉRISC — McGill University, Montreal (Invited Talk)

“Uncanny Whiteness and the New Weird: Three Revivals in Folk Horror”

“Lovecraft/Uncraft” — University of Washington, Bothell (Invited Talk)

“Jordan Peele’s Us”

Colgate’s Alternative Cinema Series — Colgate University (Invited Talk)

“Alt.Intelligence: Generative Media and Deformations of Intelligence”

Center for Data Science — New York University (Invited Talk)

“Between Visuality and Data: Three Speculative Media”

Digital Theory Summer School — King’s College London (Invited Talk)

“The Speculative Biology of Vilém Flusser”

Thinking Media After Flusser — Rice University, Houston (Invited Talk)

“Epistemologies of Big Data”

The Quality of Quantity Symposium — New York University (Invited Talk)

“Living In Medias Res: Uncanny Vitality, Reanimation, and Perpetual Life”

Animation and Forms of Life Symposium — Eugene Lang College, The New School (Invited Talk)

“One Minute and 66.5 Miles Away”

Camera work by David Bering-Porter in collaboration with Lyn Goeringer and Rosaly Conz.

“Bed-Stuy to Beebe”

Live Cinema Performance with improvised music by Lyn Goeringer — Ann Arbor Film Festival 2018

“Untitled”

Live Cinema Performance with improvised music by Lyn Goeringer — Electro-Music Festival 2017, Indianapolis, IN

Symposium Co-Organizer (with Joshua Neves and Arvind Rajagopol)

On Technopolitical Form in the Global South — Columbia University

Faculty Consultant

Vera List Center, The New School — Matter of Intelligence theme, 2025–2027

Co-Organizer, “The World As It Is: Celebrating Collective Transformation”

Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence — The New School

Creative Consultant, Whitey On The Moon

Film project by Talia Lugacy and Kamau Ware

Faculty Curator, “Feminist Looking” and “Queer Worlds, Queer Lives”

Broad Underground screening series — Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University

Faculty Advisor, Broad Art Museum MSU Writing Residency

Michigan State University

Screening Events Coordinator

4th International Conference and Festival, Electronic Literature Organization — Providence, RI

Curator, Providence Zombie Film Festival

Providence, RI

Assistant Editor

animation: an interdisciplinary journal

Advisory Board Member

CR: The New Centennial Review

Assistant Managing Editor

Digital Humanities Quarterly

Editorial Assistant

differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies

Peer Reviewer

differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies

Gianna Smith — “there’s life here”

Isabelle Kartalozi — Title TBD

Mckenna Ryan — “The Danger of Deepfake Pornography”

Nicole Rowey — “AI and the Future of the Television Industry”

Nora Dockery — “Untitled”

Maria Paz Valenzuela Silva — “Sin Rastro”

Sarah Panuska — “Other Camp: Rethinking Camp, the 1990s, and the Politics of Visibility” (Ph.D., English)

Cody Mejeur — “Ludonarrative: Queer Experiences, Embodied Stories, and Playful Realities in Video Games” (Ph.D., English)

Eunah Lee — “The Adopted Sensibility” (Ph.D., English)

Danielle Schwartz — “Intersections of Subculture: Race and Gender in Teen Films” (M.A., English)

The Digital Doppelgänger

Senior seminar on the rise of agential AI and how this new development in generative media threatens to transform labor, loss, and subjectivity.

Introduction to Media Studies

General introduction to the field of media studies organized by history and medium.

Paranoid Aesthetics: Conspiracy Theories and False Idols

A seminar exploring the aesthetics of paranoia through a study of conspiracy theories as a media phenomenon.

David Lynch

A seminar dedicated to the work of David Lynch, organized chronologically according to his filmography using the themes of dreams and the unconscious.

Possession, Control, and Liberation

Digital Media and Race

Visuality and Data

Generative Media and Artificial Intelligence: Digital Theories of Autonomy and Alienation

Economies of the Self

Folk Horror

The Zombie: Living and Dead Labor in Modernity

Black Horror

Visuality and Data

Contemporary Film and Media Theory

History of Film after Midcentury

The Zombie (Film and Society)

Undead Media: Beyond Living in Modern Culture

Hybrid graduate/undergraduate seminar.

Body Genres: Moving Images and Moving Bodies

Introduction to Film

Classical Film Theory

Memory and Modern Media: Permanence and Presence in Film and Digital Media

Digital Media and Race: Ethnicity, Technicity, Embodiment

Zizek: Beyond Truth and Hype!

Moving Images and Moving Bodies: Film and Genre

Mediating Bodies: Power and Technology in the Biopolitical Age

AI Policy Working Group

University Committee, The New School

Senate Representative, University Research Council

The New School

Senator, University Faculty Senate

The New School

Member, Academic Advisory Council, Vera List Center

Theme: “The Matter of Intelligence,” 2025–2027

Advisor, Lab for AI, Ethics, & Creative Labor

Parsons School of Design at The New School

Member, Academic Curriculum Committee

Eugene Lang College at The New School

Member, Leadership Council for the Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence

The New School

Committee Member, Code as a Liberal Art Steering Committee

Eugene Lang College at The New School

Member, Academic Excellence Committee

Eugene Lang College at The New School

Search Committee, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Race and Media

Eugene Lang College & School of Media Studies, The New School

Member, Lang Faculty Council

Eugene Lang College at The New School

Co-Chair, Speakers Committee

Department of English, Michigan State University

Member, Digital Humanities Steering Committee

College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University

Member, CAL Technology Committee

College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University

Digital Theory Lab, New York University

Association for the Study of Arts in the Present (ASAP)

Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)

Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)

English — native speaker

French — reading proficiency