Zoe is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of English at Texas State University.

Her research focuses on the intersection of film and media studies, contemporary poetry, and digital humanities. She is currently at work on her book project Shooting Script: Poetry, Film, and Form, which argues that contemporary poetry and narrative film are overlooked sister arts, connected by shared theoretical investments and an emergent “platformalism.”

Her writing has appeared recently in Literature/Film Quarterly, Next Generation Adaptation (UP Mississippi, 2021), and ASAP/J. She has also created several digital projects including editing The SpokenWeb Digital Anthology and The Relineator, a poetry-pedagogy web-app.

After growing up in Boston to Canadian and Polish-Jewish parents, Zoe attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon (the home of the first known audio recording of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl) and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. At Reed and Trinity, Zoe became fascinated with the relationship between poetry and its sister arts, especially early film—sparked by her study of modernist poetry and silent film in the Little magazines.

After graduating from Reed Phi Beta Kappa, Zoe lived in Madrid, Spain. There she taught English to secondary school students through the North American Language and Culture Assistants Program (NALCAP) created by the Spanish Embassy and gained fluency in Spanish. She also interned at Copper Canyon Press in Port Townsend, Washington, riding her bike to the Puget Sound and reading as many free books of poetry as she could on her days off from writing copy and screening submissions.

Since moving to Austin, Texas to complete her graduate studies, Zoe has traded bike wheels for a bathing suit and taken to swimming frequently at spring-fed pools in the city, walking her rescue-dog Franny around Mueller Park, and going to as many movies as she can at Austin Film Society.


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