I am Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where I teach film studies, critical theory, and creative writing, as well as direct the Film Studies program. I am the co-editor of TransNarratives: Scholarly and Creative Works on Transgender Experience (Canadian Scholars & Women’s Press, 2021). My scholarship on film, performance, television, and literature appears in Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies; Literature/Film Quarterly; Quarterly Review of Film and Video; and Journal of Modern Literature.
My poetry collection, Opera on TV, is available from The Operating System Press, and I’ve published poetry, memoir, and experimental writing in Mayday Magazine, Ghost Proposal, Tupelo Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, The Journal, SPECS journal of arts and culture, Diagram, New South, and other journals.
Art from my debut illustrated memoir From the Neck Up (the sometimes heartbreaking, mostly awkward, and always anxious story of my path from Appalachian tomboy to late-blooming trans man in academia) has been exhibited by the Sheldon Museum of Art and is featured in the UNL Libraries’ “Unkissed Kisses” exhibition.