Curriculum Vitae

Academic Positions

Adjunct Instructor, Department of Media Arts, University of North Texas, 2024-2025.

Adjunct Instructor, Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas, 2024-2025.

Research and Teaching Assistant, School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication, University of Texas at Dallas, 2018 - 2024

Graduate Assistant, School of Humanities, University of Louisiana-Monroe, 2016 - 2018

Education

Ph.D., Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication, ATEC, University of Texas at Dallas, 2024

MA, English, School of Humanities, University of Louisiana-Monroe, 2018

BA, English, School of Humanities, University of Louisiana-Monroe, 2016

Publications

Pandemic Fantasies: Discourses of Escapism During COVID-19 Diss. The University of Texas at Dallas, 2024.

Teaching Electronic Literature: Methods and Integration. Thesis. University of Louisiana at Monroe, 2018.

Academic Conferences

Panel Participant

"Roll$20: Economies of Labor in Online Role-Playing Games." Panelist on Embodiment, Authorship, and Labor in Games with Jasmine Liang and Cynthia Ching. Computers and Writing 2024. Fort Worth, Texas. June 2024.

"Role-Playing World-Making: Tabletop Role Playing Games as Utopian Practice." Panelist on Designing Counter-Narratives in Games and Gaming Culture with Cody Mejeur, Michael DeAnda, and Wendi Serra. 2023 International Conference on Narrative. Dallas, Texas. March 2023.

"We're All Animals: Tiger King, Animal Crossing, and Finding Escape in Lockdown." Panelist on Fandom on Lockdown with Emily Coccia, Pilar Lacasa & Rut Martine, Martin Lukanov, and Melody McMullan. Fan Studies Network-North America 2022 - Inside Voices. October 2022.

Emerging Scholars Panel on "Playing with Care, Laboring with Care," The Studio for Mediating Play, The University of Texas at Dallas, October 12, 2022.

"Disenchanting the Magic Circle." Panelist on Not Just a Game: Disenchanting, Blurring, and Breaking the Magic Circle with Jack Murray and Atanur Andic. Console-ing Passions 2022 - Reinvention, June 2022. (Watch Here)