Faculty Fellow Leader for the School of Cinematic Arts 2023-2024, USC Center for Excellence in Teaching
USC Provost’s award for Interdisciplinary Teaching → 2023 - 2025 for Media Ethnography and Living Archives, a collaboration with Jenny Cool of the USC School of Anthropology. The class, Remixing the Archive, added ethnography to their typical work with several archives in order to create research-based video essays (aka digital argument, video essay).
The final remix videos from Spring, 2024 can be found in this Scalar project: https://scalar.usc.edu/works/media-ethnography-living-archives/index
Collaboration with Universidad del los Andes → Fall, 2021, Remixing the Archive class
Edited Collection, Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities → OBP: Cambridge UK, May 2021
USC Mellon Award for Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students, 2017
USC Provost’s award for Teaching with Technology, 2009
Fall, 2025 grad classes
The Iraqi Doctors Project: video pedagogy
Speaking with Students: Profiles in Digital Pedagogy, with DJ Johnson and Dave Lopez
TEACHING AND ADVISING
University of Southern California, 2007-present
Courses Developed + Taught:
+ IML560: Embodied Knowledge and the Fantastical
+ IML535: Tactical Media
+ IML502: Techniques in Information Visualization
+ IML 501: Seminar in Contemporary Digital Media
+ IML 555: Digital Pedagogies
+ IML 420: New Media for Social Change
+ IML423: Remixing the Archive
+ IML 346: Digital Research Methods
+ IML 440: Senior Thesis Production I
+ IML 444: Senior Thesis Production II
+ IML 201: The Languages of New Media
+ IML535: Tactical Media
+ IML340: The Praxis of New Media—Digital Argument
+ IML288: Critical Thinking and Procedure Media
+ IML501: Seminar in Contemporary Digital Media
+ IML500: Digital Tools and Tactics
+ IML555: Digital Pedagogies
+ IML502: Techniques in Information Visualization
Contributions to Course Development and/or Amendment:
+ IML440 and IML444 Senior Thesis sequence,
+ IML201: The Languages of New Media
+ IML420: New Media for Social Change
+ IML400: Creative Coding for the Web
Administrative:
+ Supervisor, IML faculty, USC, 2009 – 2013
+ Course Coordinator, Basic Writing, UWM, 2001-2002
+ Course Coordinator, First Year Composition, UWM, 2002-2003
DOCTORAL committees:
CHAIR: (current doctoral students) Dana Dal Bo, iMAP; Chantal Eyong, iMAP. + Halo Starling, iMAP
Committees (current)
Laura Roque, English, Creative Writing
Mathew Hernandez, English Literature
Darren Donate, English, Creative Writing
Selwa Sweidan, iMAP
Committees Past: +.Ben Nicolson, iMAP, 2023
+Elke Nash, Classics, 2022 +Jacob Bushnell Bohrod, SCA, Cinema and Media Studies, 2021
+ Amanda Jordan, Department of Comparative Literature, 2020
+ Nike Nivar Ortiz, American Studies and Ethnicities, 2020
+ Ali Rachel Pearl, Department of English, 2019
+ James Lee, Annenberg School of Communication, 2019
+ Anirban Baishya, SCA, Cinema and Media Studies, 2019
+ George Carstocea, SCA, Cinema & Media Studies, 2019
+ Viola Lasmana, Department of English and HASTAC Scholar, 2018
+ Richard Edinger, Department of English, completed, 2018
+ Sophia Serrano, SCA, Cinema and Media Studies, ABD, 2017
+ Juri Hwang, School of Cinematic Arts, iMAP, ABD 2016
+ Branden Buehler, SCA, Cinema & Media Studies, completed 2016
+ Alexandrina Agloro, Annenberg School of Communication, completed 2015
+ Ash Cramer, Department of English, ABD 2014
+ Laurel Felt, Annenberg School of Communication, completed 2014
MA THESIS committees:
+ Brittany Moffett, USC School of Architecture, 2016
+ Thembi Ford, Journalism, Annenberg School of Communication, 2012
+ Kirsi Crowley, Journalism, Annenberg School of Communication, 2011
Advisor, Making Sense of Cultural Data course, UC Berkeley, taught by Abigail DeKosnik, et al, Fall, 2016
Faculty Advisor
+ Trojan Anime Culture student organization, 2012 to present
+ United Nations Association at USC student organization, 2015 to present
Graduate Student Advising and Training:
+ Annenberg Micro seminars taught annually 2010 to 2017
+ Annenberg Symposium proposal judge, 2012
+ TA Training, Center for Excellence in Teaching, August 2012
+ Curating Your Online Identity, presentation for the Preparing the Future Professoriate group, USC Center for Excellence in Teaching, 2008