My work focuses on how our sensory experiences–particularly color–have been targeted by dominant structures of power, from the 19th century to our digital present. I am currently Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. 

My books include the co-edited Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media(MIT Press, 2025) and the collaboratively authored Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal (Stanford University Press, 2025). My first academic monograph, for which I received a 2025 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, is How Color Became a Technology: The Making of Chromatic Capitalism (forthcoming from Duke University Press in May 2027).

Other academic work has appeared in Camera Obscura, Post45 Journal, The Senses and Society, Visual Culture, Frames Cinema Journal, and elsewhere. Essays, criticism, and exhibition reviews have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Art Newspaper China, and LEAP, China’s bilingual contemporary arts magazine.

I come from an interdisciplinary humanities background: modern languages & literatures (Russian, Chinese, and French),  art practice, and film and media studies. I hold a B.A. in Slavic Languages & Literatures and Visual Art from The University of Chicago (2014), an M.A. in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley (2017), and a Ph.D in Film & Media, also from UC Berkeley (2022).