As a film studies specialist, my upper-level teaching and research currently focuses on narratology, disaster films, adaptation theory, film noir nihilism, masculinities, cinematic architecture, and the films of Alfred Hitchcock and Pedro Almodóvar. I am the Editor-in-chief of Mise-en-scène, a forthcoming film studies journal operating out of the English department and sponsored by KPU. My other areas of interest include rhetoric, Canadian and disasporic literature, digital humanities, and experiential learning.