I’m an Assistant Professor at the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto with expertise in climate change media and critical methods of cultural analysis. My research concentrates on the climate-media-democracy nexus and explores questions of power, identity-formation, and meaning-making around climate change. I’m also the co-chair of the Critical Studies of Climate Media, Discourse, and Power Working Group a part of Brown University’s Climate Social Science Network (CSSN) and an appointed member of the Board of Directors for the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA).My forthcoming book entitled Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power (Oxford University Press, 2025) examines how national anxieties following the 2016 presidential election of Donald Trump have shaped and continue to shape American journalistic and political interpretations of climate change in ways that severely limit how it has come to be known, imagined, and contended with. In addition to interrogating the implications of these limitations, my book also explores possible pathways forward for more robust forms of climate journalism in the U.S. today.My research and writing have been published in various academic journals and popular media outlets including Environmental Communication, Journal of Language and Politics, Journal of Environmental Media, Media Theory, Politique Américaine, Places Journal, Reading The Pictures, and Earth Island Journal. I also co-edited the book entitled Climate Change and Journalism: Negotiating Rifts of Time (Routledge, 2021). My scholarship has been recognized by the Connaught New Researcher Award from the University of Toronto, Stuart Hall Award from the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), New Directions for Climate Communication Research Fellowship from the IECA and IAMCR, and Top Paper Awards from the International Communication Association (ICA) and Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS).