EDUCATION
Ph.D., Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago, 2018
B.F.A., Film Production, SUNY Purchase College, 2010, summa cum laude
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2024-present University of Maryland Baltimore County, Associate Professor, Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program
2020-2024 Florida Atlantic University, Director, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
2018-2024 Florida Atlantic University, Assistant Professor, School of Communications and Multimedia Studies
2013-2018 University of Chicago, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Cinema and Media Studies
PRESENTATIONS
International
“The Monster by the Pool: Frankenstein’s Monster and the Posthuman Potential of Selfie Aesthetics,” SymbioticA, University of Western Australian, Perth, Western Australia, October 2018
National
“‘Who Are These People?’ Solidarity and Abolitionist Media Activism.” Co-Chair and Panelist, Mediating Backlash: Contesting Conservative Movements through Representation Then and Now, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Boston, MA, March 2024
“Bending the Bars: Queer Abolitionist Media Praxis in Florida,” Panelist, Liberating Queerness: Queer Theory’s Radical Potential for Making Sense of the Past, Critiquing the Present, and Imagining the Future, National Communication Association, Baltimore, MD, November 2023
“Doing Time: Interactive Fiction for Queer Liberation,” Panelist with Amelia Taylor, Doing Time/Spending Time while Reclaiming Our Time, National Women’s Studies Association, Baltimore, MD, October 2023.
“Respectable Spectacles and Exploitative Catharsis: Mediating Trans Experiences of Incarceration,” Panelist, On Badness: Ruined Enjoyment, Poor Taste, and Negative Affect in Trans and Queer Media, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Denver, CO, April 2023
“Backlash in the Sunshine: Teaching Gender and Race in Florida,” Roundtable Facilitator, National Women’s Studies Association, Minneapolis, MN, November 2022
“Approaches to Teaching Transgender Media,” Roundtable Facilitator with Lauren Herold, Nick Davis, Cael Keegan, Dan Vena, Nael Bhanji, Laura Horak, and Haley Hvdson, Console-ing Passions 2022, Orlando, FL, June 2022
“Bending the Bars: Sex, Love, and Censorship in Queer Prison Comics,” Chair and Panelist, Policing Porn: Archives, Censorship, and Materiality Amid the Security State and Mass Incarceration, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL, March-April 2022
“No One Is Disposable: Ecofeminism and Climate Crisis,” Panelist with co-author Daniella Orias, 50 Years of GWSS: The Story Across Borders, Ranks, and Institutions via an Open-Access Zine, National Women’s Studies Association annual conference, fully online, Fall 2021 [postponed from 2020]
“A Scandal in Seriality: Heterosexuality in Elementary and Sherlock,” Panelist, Videographic Television Studies, Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, fully online, March 2021
“Pronouns, Protest, and Policy: The Worlds Pronouns Create,” Panel Organizer and Presenter, National Women’s Studies Association annual conference, San Francisco, CA, November 2019
“‘I Never Cared Until I Met You:’ Affective Labor, Transition, and Selfhood on YouTube,” Panelist, Affective Labor, Sexual Stories, Digital Authenticity, and Queer Media, Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, Seattle, WA, March 2019
“Meanwhile, Later, A Little Earlier: Digital Queer Archival Possibilities Through Shea Couleé’s Lipstick City,” Archival (Re)mediations: Videographic Criticism and the Exploration of Film as Archive, Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, Toronto, March 2018
“Whose Self in the Selfie?: Posthuman, Networked Selves in Selfies and Self-portraits,” Arts of the Self: Selfies, Self-Portraits, and Contemporary Art, The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 9, Berkeley, CA, October 2017
“Captioning the Selfie: Image and Text in DarkMatter's Online Activism,” Co-Chair and Panelist: Know Thyself(ie): Image, Self, Representation, Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, Chicago, IL, March 2017
“The Look Back: Subverting the Medicalization and Objectification of the Trans Body in Transparent,” Transparent: A Multidisciplinary Symposium, Susan B. Anthony Institute, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, December 2016
“Selfie Seriality,” & Media Conference, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, September 2016
“Trans Consultants: Aesthetics of Authenticity and Compromise,” Co-Chair and Panelist: Troubling Trans Media: Fact, Fiction, & Compromise, Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, Atlanta, GA, March 2016
Regional
“It’s the Clichés that Cause the (Gender) Trouble: Nonbinary Potentiality in Written on the Body,” Potentialities, Identities and Myths, WGS South, Virtual Conference, March 2023
“Doubling Up: Queering the Mirror Stage in Drucker and Ernst’s Relationship Series,” Queertopia, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, May 2015
Invited Talks
“DeSantis vs. Gender Studies: Fascism in the Freest State in the Nation,” Feminism Fascism and the Future: Gensler Family Symposium, Middlebury College, April 12, 2024
“It’s the Clichés that Cause the (Gender) Trouble,” English Graduate Student Conference Keynote, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, April 5, 2023
“Reflections on the Museum of the Copy-Pasted Identities,” University of Toronto Centre for Culture and Technology, Toronto, Canada, March 23, 2023
“Selfie Aesthetics,” Research Workshop, Department of Media, Film, and Communication, University of Ontago, New Zealand [Zoom], May 2022
“Borders, Boundaries, Frames: Posthuman Intimacies in Selfie Aesthetics,” Visual Culture Workshop, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, September 2017
Conferences Organized
Ethical XR: A Symposium, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, February 2020.
Performing Bodies: Gesture, Affect, and Embodiment on Screen, Department of Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of Chicago, April 17-18, 2015. Screening curation and introductory remarks.
Other Presentations
“Report Back from the West Bank,” Hinenu Baltimore: The Justice Shtibel and Jewish Voice for Peace Baltimore, Red Emma’s Bookstore, Baltimore, MD, September 18, 2024
“Perspectives from the West Bank,” Jewish Voice for Peace South Florida and Palm Beach County DSA [Zoom], September 4, 2024
“International Solidarity in the West Bank,” Tzedek Chicago Synagogue [Zoom], August 28, 2024
“Report Back from the West Bank,” Shel Ma’ala Online Yeshiva [Zoom], August 20, 2024
“Jewish Anti-Zionists Queering the Fight for a Free Palestine,” Interfaith Communities Uniting for Peace and Justice, Los Angeles, CA [Zoom], February 16, 2023
Presenter, “Conversations Around Teaching,” New College of Florida, Sarasota FL, January 2023
Panelist, “CMS Professional Development Workshop,” Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago, October 2021
Panelist, “CMS Online Pedagogy Workshop 2,” Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago, July 2020
“Selves and (M)Others: Self-Portrait Short Films,” curated screening at the SMART Museum and the Film Studies Center, University of Chicago, May 2019
“In Conversation with Vivek Shraya,” presentation and discussion at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, University of Chicago, May 2019
“The Image of Life and #LifeItself: Porous Boundaries and Posthuman Intimacies in Selfie Aesthetics,” presentation at the Sound and Society Workshop, University of Chicago, February 2018
“‘Because of You, I Know that I Exist’: Doubling in Selfie Aesthetics,” presentation at the Mass Culture Workshop, University of Chicago, May 2017
“Selfies at Play: Activism & Identity Exploration in Zinnia Jones’ Self-Portraits,” presentation at the Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop, University of Chicago, October 2015
Selected Press
Speaking Out of Place: Columbia and Beyond, April 17, 2024 [podcast]
Refuse Fascism: Genocide in Gaza, Repression in the US, March 17, 2024 [podcast]
“Protesters Call for Gaza Ceasefire at Art Basel Miami Beach,” HyperAllergic, December 8, 2023 [News]
“Ron DeSantis Is All In—on Creating an American Autocracy,” Mother Jones July-August 2023 [magazine]
“BANNED: Gender, Race and Sexuality Studies,” Ms. Magazine, June 16, 2023 [magazine]
“A closer look at a degree in 'Gender Studies',” CBS Channel 12, March 1, 2023 [News]
New Books in Critical Theory: Nicole Morse, Selfie Aesthetics, July 13, 2022 [podcast]
In Conversation: The Aesthetics of Selfies with Nicole Morse, October 2020 [podcast]