Finley Freibert / Independent Scholar

Finley Freibert is an independent scholar and currently a part time Lecturer in Comparative Humanities at the University of Louisville. In 2019, he completed a Ph.D. in Visual Studies from the University of California, Irvine. Finley researches and teaches at the intersection of media industry studies, critical legal studies, LGBTQ+ histories, cultural studies, and film and media history. Finley's current research tracks how queer cultural productions have been tied to commercial structures, and how such media exist in a complex relationship with economic and cultural systems of regulation. His work has been published in scholarly venues such as Film Criticism, and Finley has written for a general audience in The Advocate and Washington Blade. Reach him on Twitter: @FinleyFreibert.