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Research & Interest Areas
20/21C American Literature
- surveys of 20/21C American literature
- diversity & the literary canon
- Asian American, African American, and Ethnic American literature
- graphic novels & young adult literature
- emphasis on ethnic futurisms and speculative literatures color (e.g. Asianfuturism, Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futurism)
- Vice President of the Octavia E. Butler Literary Society: https://oebliterarysociety.weebly.com/
Queer Theory & Cultural Studies
- queer literature & queer theory
- emphasis race, gender, sexuality, & intersectionality
- feminist media studies
- posthumanism & technoculture
- popular culture
Analog & Video Game Studies
- queergaming & queer games
- games of color
- Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) games
- games and pedagogy
- Assistant Editor of Analog Game Studies: https://analoggamestudies.org/
- Contributing Editor of Gamers with Glasses: https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/
- Co-Chair of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies's (SCMS) Video Game Studies Scholarly Interest Group (VGSSIG): https://vgssig.wordpress.com/
Composition & Rhetoric
- games & writing
- computers & writing
- digital rhetoric
- queer rhetoric
- first year writing
Pedagogy & Professionalization
- teaching (with) literature
- teaching (with) writing
- teaching (with) games
- graduate student professionalization & job placement