Where theory meets praxis.

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I am a scholar, writer, and filmmaker, whose creative practice is rooted in the belief that popular culture is where theory comes to life. My work spans middle grade and YA fiction, short film, and journalism—not as a break from academic inquiry, but as a form of it. I approach each project as an opportunity to engage audiences, challenge dominant narratives/production processes, and contribute to cultural discourse through storytelling.

My research and teaching in communication and media studies are grounded in praxis: the ongoing interplay of theory and creative action. I draw from feminist media studies, cultural studies, and research-creation to frame my work as a way of producing knowledge—not only about the world, but within it. Whether I’m exploring media literacy in a romance novel for young readers, co-creating a short film commenting on gender, race, or class and identity, or writing about pop music and performance, I’m interested in how media shape our ways of feeling, relating, and imagining futures.

I work in academic forms as well as popular forms deliberately. I believe that the stories we tell (and how we tell them) matter most when they’re accessible, affective, and part of everyday life. To write in a genre, to publish for young audiences, to make films that resonate with non-academic viewers—these are not diversions from communication theory, but direct interventions in the communicative circuits that theory seeks to understand.

My goal—as an artist and as a scholar/educator—is to create work that lives both inside and outside the university: rigorously engaged with scholarly traditions, yet meaningfully responsive to the world beyond them.