• Degree: Began PhD program in 2019
• Concentration: Film and Screen Studies
• Advisor: Will Scheibel

Dylan is a fifth-year PhD candidate and teaching associate specializing in American film and cultural studies. He is currently at work on his dissertation, "Cosmopolitan Hollywood: Blockbusters, Tourism, and Projecting American Identity," which studies representations of American tourists traveling abroad in American popular cinema from 1945-present. He also sustains interests in representations of tourism in other digital media, such as Virtual Reality, and he manages the Syracuse University virtual reality lab known as the Digital Scholarship Space (DSS). He has taught a range of courses dealing with literature and media in their historical and cultural contexts such as Interpretation of Film, Interpretation of Nonfiction, and Gender and Literary Texts.

• M.Phil. in English, Syracuse University
• B.A. Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2018)
• B.S. Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2018)