He earned a PhD in film studies from the Communication Arts Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005. His writing on cinema, television, and the internet has appeared or is forthcoming in The Velvet Light Trap, Film Studies: An International Review, Film Criticism, First Monday, In Media Res, and Cinema Journal. His interests include audiovisual narrative form, comparative media poetics, media history, and the cultural politics of taste. He is working on a book about American Independent Cinema to be published by Columbia University Press, and blogs at Zigzigger: On the Audiovisual and Beyond.