I am a film historian, shaped by a long-lasting love for language and literature. In my scholarship, I marry my interest in personal forms of expression with the study of young female audiences. Analyzing one-of-a-kind autobiographical artifacts like movie scrapbooks, fan correspondence, moviegoing diaries, and amateur Kodaks, I seek to unearth a treasure trove of individual memories, coming-of-age experiences, affective attachments, and spectatorial responses that, though obscured by the patina of time and the dust of makeshift home archives, shimmers with the weight of history, offering unprecedented insight into the origins of young fan communities, their gift economies, their craft practices, and their too-oft unsung

unremunerated labor and creative agency.

 

My book project, entitled From the Throbbing Darkness: Exhuming the Fan Archives of Movie-Loving Girls, 1910-1919, is currently under review.