I am Assistant Professor of Film, Media, and Culture at the University of Amsterdam Department of Media Studies and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. I am the coordinator of our Film Studies Master's. I also serve as the Chair of the Media Studies Examinations Board.  

My research has tended to consider questions of social signification, knowledge, and desire in visual cultures. Much of my work has theorised relations between bisexuality and the cinema, specifically as these pertain to epistemology, hermeneutics, historiography, and form. Other areas of interest include pornography, Jewishness and film, mediations of bodily interiority, critical animal studies, and early cinemas. 

My monograph, Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression (Duke University Press, 2026), proposes the theoretical utility of cinematic figures of bisexual transgression for queer film studies. I have published work in the Journal of Bisexuality and Porn Studies, in which I edited a special issue on bisexuality and pornography. I have also contributed chapters in edited collections with Intellect, Liverpool University Press, Routledge, and Wiley-Blackwell. I sit on the advisory editorial board for Routledge’s Screening Cinema series and on the editorial board for Porn Studies journal. 

Before coming to the University of Amsterdam, I taught at King’s College London, where I also completed a PhD in Film Studies. I hold an MA in Sexual Dissidence and a BA in English Literature and Film from the University of Sussex.

Current teaching

Film Research Project (MA)

Film Theories (MA)

Research Seminar and Bachelor's Thesis: Sex and the Moving Image (BA)​

Tutorial: Queer Theories (RMA)

Past teaching

Current Themes in Media Studies: Early Cinemas (BA)

Doing Media Studies I (BA)

Film Analysis (BA)

Film and the Body (BA, at Amsterdam University College)

Media Research: Animals and the Moving Image (BA)

Film Research Seminar: Developments in Queer Film Studies (MA)

Film Research Seminar: Cinema and the Animal (MA)