Service

Professional Leadership (National/International)

MLA (opens in a new tab)  (opens in a new tab)(Modern Language Association): 16c French Forum Executive Committee (2018–23; chair, 2022)

SCSC (opens in a new tab) (Sixteenth Century Society & Conference): French Literature Track Director (2012–18)

I’ve also refereed articles/books and provided editorial feedback for the Presses Universitaires de France (opens in a new tab) (PUF-Sorbonne), Amsterdam University Press (opens in a new tab), Sixteenth Century Journal (opens in a new tab), Yale University Press (opens in a new tab), McGraw-Hill (opens in a new tab) (for Film Art), Viator (opens in a new tab), etc.

University

Lingua Romana (opens in a new tab): A Journal of French, Italian and Romanian Culture, Editor-in-Chief (2018–present)

MARS (opens in a new tab) (BYU Medieval & Renaissance Studies), director (2017–23)

BYU General Education (opens in a new tab): GE Arts task force committee

Outreach

The Utah Monthly (opens in a new tab)interview in two parts (part 2 (opens in a new tab)) on French & Italian film and the divine

Clearly Underrated (opens in a new tab) podcast interview on Jean Renoir’s La Grande Illusion (1937)

From the Booth (opens in a new tab) (BYU International Cinema) podcast interviews on Agnès Varda & JR's Faces Places (2017), Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima mon amour (1959), the Dardenne brothers' The Son (2002) and Marcel Pagnol’s The Baker’s Wife (1938)

Dozens of lectures for BYU International Cinema (opens in a new tab) on the films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Agnès Varda, Jacques Demy, François Truffaut, the Dardenne brothers, Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Pierre Melville, etc.
~ Press release on my lecture “Why (opens in a new tab) Amélie (opens in a new tab)?” (opens in a new tab)

BYU Humanities “Coping with Covid” presentation on Marguerite de Navarre (link (opens in a new tab))