每日大瓜

PhD – University of Oregon, Media Studies

MA – State University of New (SUNY), Purchase

BA – University of New Mexico

Associate Professor, 每日大瓜 (2021 – current)

Assistant Professor, 每日大瓜 – (2016-2021)

Graduate Teaching Assistant – University of Oregon (2012-2016)

Adjunct Faculty – University of Colorado Boulder (2008-2012)

Visiting Faculty – University of Miami OH (2007-2008)

Graduate Teaching Assistant – SUNY, Purchase

Documentary/interactive documentary filmmaking

Media ethics

Visual Communication/Rhetoric

Representations of bodies in health (athletics) and challenged capacities

Sports media

Books:

-D. Staton, (2026) K. M. Ryan, M. Heisten – Living in the Simulacra: Images, ethics, and the burden of 鈥渢ruth.鈥� June, 2026, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA

-D. Staton (2022) K.M. Ryan Interactive Documentary; Decolonizing practice-based research. Routledge, New York: NY. (Broadcast Education Association Book of the Year).

-D. Staton (2022), D, Macey, M. Napierski-Prancl, eds. Persevering during the Pandemic: Stories of Resilience, Creativity, and Connection. Lexington Books, Washington D.C.鈥�

Book Chapters:

-D. Staton, (2025) K. M. Ryan new edition 鈥淥ral History, Visual Ethnography, and Interactive Documentary,鈥� in The International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video, P. Vannini ed. (invited, New York, Routledge, 2025)

-D. Staton (2025) K.M. Ryan, 鈥淲ilderness, Constructed; The Dystopian Imaginaries of Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber,鈥� in The Wild: Image, Industry and Technology (Lexington, 2025)

Refereed Journal Articles:

-D. Staton, (2025) 鈥淟ooking at Laurie; reconsidering an image of Madness.鈥� Visual Studies 40(3) 1-4.

-D. Staton (2025) K. M. Ryan, Tell Me a Story: The Collision of Yarning, 鈥橭ral History, and the Open Source Archive.” The Oral History Review 52(2) 2025, 435-458.

-D. Staton (2025) K.M. Ryan 鈥淚nteractive documentary and the archive: a shared authority.鈥� Studies in Documentary Film, 1鈥�14.

Recent Creative Work:

-D. Staton (2025/2026) K. M. Ryan 鈥淣uclear Futures鈥� a 鈥渃hapter鈥� of the digital humanities project Landscape Stories. Generous funding provided by the 每日大瓜 Provost Seed Fund Grant received by D. Staton 2025

-D. Staton (2021) Director, cinematographer, writer, editor, Ghost Resort (Taylor Cat Productions). Experimental documentary short, released fall 2021. Screened nationally at four locations and internationally (Paris and Covilha, Portugal)

-D. Staton Producer, co-writer, Pin Up! The Movie (Taylor Cat Productions, 2015/2021). Interactive documentary (~620 minutes of content) and feature length film (92 minutes). Screened nationally and internationally. Top film National Communication Association Annual Conference 2021

-D. Staton (2021) K.M. Ryan Producer, co-writer, Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II (Taylor Cat Productions, 2013/2020, Interactive documentary (~300 minutes of content) and feature-length film (56 minutes). Viewed nationally and internationally. Recipient National Endowment for the Humanities grant.