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Exciting news, which got announced a little while back! I’ve been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant as part of their “Dangers & Opportunities of Technology” program. It gives me support to work on a large-scale project … Continue reading →

The summer 2023 issue of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (62.4) is officially out! Even though Liz Ellcessor and I took over as co-editors back in November 2022, this is the first issue that is fully “ours” – … Continue reading →

Our edited volume Real Life in Real Time: Live Streaming Culture is officially out now from MIT Press! It’s co-edited by Johanna Brewer, Amanda Cullen, Christopher Persaud, and myself. It has 20 chapters by a wonderful array of authors from … Continue reading →

One of our goals as JCMS editors (that’s me and Liz Ellcessor, co-editors, and our fabulous masthead team) is to increase transparency around the journal’s operations. We also want to make the journal a welcoming place for a wide variety … Continue reading →

I’m so honored that my book Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies has been selected for the 2023 Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award! The Anne Friedberg award “recognizes the best new scholarly work that exemplifies rigorous, interdisciplinary … Continue reading →

My book Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies comes out in 2 WEEKS from MIT Press! It officially releases on June 14 but you can pre-order copies from Amazon. You can also follow the Twitter account for … Continue reading →

I’m very excited to announce that the special issue of Television and New Media that Johanna Brewer and I co-edited is now published online! The special issue is all about different ways that gender and sexuality manifest in various forms … Continue reading →

My new book, Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies, is coming out from MIT Press this June! It’s about the history of contemporary sex tech: interrogating that history, finding new histories, and imagining new futures for sexual … Continue reading →

Woohoo, it’s official! The board of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies has selected Liz Ellcessor (University of Virgina) and myself as the new incoming co-editors-in-chief of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies – the premier peer-reviewed academic … Continue reading →

Whit Pow and I are excited to announce that the Call for Paper is now out for an upcoming special issue of Communication, Culture & Critique on “Trans Game Studies.” The issue will explore various topics at the intersection of trans lives and games, with the … Continue reading →