TEACHING

In the Fall of 2021 I joined UConn full-time as Assistant Professor-in-Residence in Human Rights Documentary Filmmaking, a joint appointment under UConn's Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute and the Department of Digital Media & Design.  Prior to this appointment, I had helped to build UConn's Human Rights Film & Digital Media Initiative, designing and teaching courses that combined a social justice/human rights thematic framework with a theoretical and technical orientation in documentary film. In the Spring of 2021 I developed a new course, "Visual Storytelling Through Human Rights Archives," engaging students in a special documentary project utilizing the Thomas J. Dodd Nuremberg Trial Collections held in the UConn Library Archives. Other courses that I have developed at UConn include "Social Documentary in Theory and Practice" and "Visual Representations of Armenian Memory," while I've also provided teaching support in other courses including "Power, Privilege, and Public Education," "Motion Graphics I," and "Comparative Perspectives in Human Rights." Student work generated through these courses has been screened (or will be screened) at a variety of wider public forums and conferences, such as LETTERS FROM NUREMBERG, THE DILDILIANS: A Story of Photography and Survival and KWIZERA: Hope Born from Resilience. In addition, I recently completed a short documentary produced by the Human Rights Institute on the Polish Human Rights scholar Wiktor Osiatyński, which premiered in March 2023. 

Designed and taught two courses, “Gender, Nation and South Asian Cinema” and “Women Filmmakers of South Asia” (both cross-listed in Film Studies, South Asian Studies, and Women’s Sexuality and Gender Studies). Also lectured, presented, and worked on independent projects as a Copeland Fellow/Artist in Residence at Amherst in Spring 2013. During this period I collaborated with Amherst Music Professor   Eric Sawyer to produce SUNDARBANS, a short piece on the Sundarbans mangrove forest, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.