Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Doctor of Philosophy in Communication, 1999
Dissertation: "The Uses of Childhood: the making of Walt Disney and the generic American child, 1930-1960" (Duke University Press, Spring 2005).

M.A., University of California, San Diego
Master of Arts in Communication, 1996

B.A., Wesleyan University
Bachelor of Arts with Honors, 1983

Publications

The Uses of Childhood: the making of Walt Disney and the generic American child, 1930-1960. (Duke University Press, Spring 2005).

“Introduction” and “Squaring the Family Circle.” In Steel Chair to the Head: Essays on Professional Wrestling. Nicholas Sammond, ed. (Duke University Press, Spring 2005).

“Commodities, Commodity Fetishism, and Commodification.” The Encyclopedia of Sociology, George Ritzer, ed. (Blackwell, 2005).

“Living at Death’s Door.” Cabinet, Daniel Rosenberg and Susan Harding, eds. Spring 2004.

“Domestic Comedy and Family Drama.” In The Encyclopedia of American Boyhood, Priscilla Clement, ed. (ABC-CLIO, 2001).

(with Chandra Mukerji) “ ‘What you are ... I wouldn’t eat’: ethnicity, whiteness, and performing ‘the Jew’ in Hollywood’s Golden Age.” In Classic Whiteness/Classic Hollywood, Daniel Bernardi, ed. (University of Minnesota Press, 2001).

“Manufacturing the American Child: child-rearing and the rise of Walt Disney.” Continuum 13:1 (April 1999).

Current Position

Assistant Professor, Cinema Studies, the University of Toronto