Broadly, my research focuses on the history and theory of media technologies, with a particular interest in digital media and computing history. My interest in digital media stems from the ways in which they incorporate pre-existing media like photography, cinema, and television to produce new social and political configurations. I am currently working on a book project focusing on the cultural and development history of VR technology, which has inspired a series of questions in popular culture about what it means to be an embodied subject in a digital age.

My courses touch on themes of social control and ideology, racial and gender bias in digital media design (the interface, human-computer interaction, algorithms), contemporary theories of subjectivity, and embodiment with and through media. I am especially interested in exploring histories of computing that challenge the dominant Silicon Valley narratives of singular genius inventors and “disruption.” In all my courses, I emphasize the historical intersections and disjunctions that exist between newer media and more established media, from the camera obscura and telegraphy to video games and VR.