I am an assistant professor of American culture and film, television, and media at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I have a BA in American studies from Smith College and a PhD in American studies & ethnicity from the University of Southern California, as well as a graduate certificate in visual studies from the USC Visual Studies Research Institute. My research and teaching interests span the fields of race and ethnic studies, film and media studies, decolonial studies, and queer theory.

My first book, Mainstreaming Palestine: Cinematic Activism and the Politics of Solidarity (fall 2025, University of Minnesota Press) historicizes a decades-long process of how Arab American activists and allies have leveraged cinema to promote a discourse on Palestinian liberation and solidarity politics within a US culture dominated by compulsory Zionism. This mainstreaming of Palestinian liberation and solidarity politics, Cable argues, is the result of fifty years of cinematic activism, a social movement organizational strategy which takes the texts, practices, and social relations of cinema as the focal point for movement mobilization and communication. Through visual and discursive analysis of film, video, print news, and archival materials, to participant observation and ethnographic interviews at film festivals, this book employs an interdisciplinary methodology to explore how Palestinian cinema and Palestine solidarity cinema and their dissemination through cinematic activism have produced—literally, figuratively, cinematically, and discursively—Palestinian liberation and solidarity politics within the US public sphere. Through these processes, the topic of Palestine has shifted from one of taboo and unspeakability, to inclusion within liberal multiculturalism, and has ultimately begun a process of normalization within the US mainstream. Mainstreaming Palestine at once historicizes, reimagines, and problematizes the role of cinema within the Palestinian liberation and solidarity movement in the US. It offers both incisive examples of the power of cinema to subvert censorship and change the discourse on Palestine, while also cautioning against the pitfalls inherent to the mainstreaming of marginalized people and politics within the context of neoliberal capitalism.