Below are links to my film programming, as well as my academic and cultural writing, which includes film criticism, scholarship, artist interviews, book reviews, and conference presentations. Presented in reverse chronological order.
Writing
Article. “The Shoes of the Fisherman.” Screen Slate, April 2026.
Book Review. Julie Wosk, “Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females.” Studies in Popular Culture, Volume 47, Spring 2026, forthcoming.
Conference Presentation. “The Problem of Observation: Social Reality as Utopian Science Fiction in Symbiopsychotaxiplasm,” at Critical Themes 2026: New Constructions, The New School, March 2026.
Article. “Night Train.” Screen Slate, February 2026.
Conference Presentation. “Mimicry and Scopophilia in the Docufictional Form: On Kaouther Ben Hania’s Le Challat de Tunis,” NYU Tisch Cinema Studies Student Conference, February 2025.
Article. “Sitting in Limbo.” Screen Slate, February 2025.
Programming
Gathered in Love and Rage: A Palestinian Films Showcase
Spectacle Theater, April 2024. Shepherded travelling program in coordination with Philadelphia-based artists collective Batikh Batikh. Proceeds directed to Gaza Mutual Aid Collective.
You Killed Me and I Forgot to Die: Palestine in Lebanon
Spectacle Theater, February 2024. Co-programmed with filmmaker Abyn Reabe. Proceeds directed to the Palestinian American Community Center and Gaza Mutual Aid Collective.
You Killed Me and I Forgot to Die: Films of Palestinian Dignity
Spectacle Theater, December 2023. Co-programmed with filmmaker Abyn Reabe. Featuring Q&As with film scholars Samirah Alkassim and Fadi Abu Nemeh. Proceeds directed to the Palestinian American Community Center and Gaza Mutual Aid Collective.
Films of Palestinian Resistance Spectacle Theater, November 2023. Co-programmed with filmmaker Abyn Reabe. Proceeds directed to the Palestinian American Community Center and Gaza Mutual Aid Collective.
Louis Feuillade’s Les Vampires Spectacle Theater, August 2022. Presented with an original score by various artists, including Bradley Eros, Milton Rabbit, Vampÿrates, and Peter Vogel.
Suzanne Schiffman & Pamela Berger’s Sorceress Spectacle Theater, April 2022. Featuring Q&A with filmmaker and medieval scholar Pamela Berger.
Jacques Rivette’s Out 1 Spectacle Theater, September 2021.
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