This page features my own writing from across my academic journey. I have included links to as many as I am able to, either via my own PDF copies or the publisher's website.

Publications

  • "(Role)Playing with Power? Establishing the Boundaries of Power Fantasy in Lockdown." Analog Game Studies, March 2026. Forthcoming.
  • "If you're going to kill people, do it indiscriminately": Negotiating the Monstrous in Dead by Daylight. Submission for an edited collection, currently looking for a publisher.
  • "Roll$20: Economies of Labor in Online Role-Playing Games." Proceedings of the Computers & Writing Conference, 2024 (Link to full journal here.)

Research in Progress

  • "'Dovah-kinky': Negotiating Power Fantasy in Skyrim's Modding Cultures." Journal article-in-progress that will (ideally) demonstrate a lot of the major themes and ideas for the manuscript project (see below). Between the yearly Game Difficulty Discourse ("X game is supposed to be hard!") and my own fascination with how players and modders have reinterpreted Bethesda's 2011 power fantasy adventure, I've developed a lot of ideas surrounding the pleasures (or lack thereof) of feeling powerful/powerless in Skyrim. Estimated completion: 2026.
  • Power(less) Fantasies. Manuscript project exploring the prevailing discourse around games as "fantasies" of agency, ability, and acquisition. This is a long-term project that iterates on elements of my dissertation and expands on some of its core ideas. However, it will very much be its own thing, especially as I have been researching and observing games and gaming cultures around powerlessness, BDSM, queer experience, and renegotiating what it means to have "power" and who gets to fantasize and actualize that power. Estimated completion: ???

The Student Papers

Note: the following papers are not peer-reviewed publications. I may be a Ph.D. now, but it took a lot of time, effort, and stumbling through my words to get there. I imagine many scholars have hidden away all their term papers and scraps of articles, offering their best work as evidence of their credentials. I, however, want this website to truly be an archive of my work and a testament to my evolution as a scholar. That includes my terrible, cringe-inducing freshman year papers, among many others. I hope that someday they'll prove helpful to an up-and-coming writer to know that everyone has to start somewhere.

Spring 2024 - Fall 2018 (Ph.D. Years)

While a good chunk of my Ph.D. Years consisted of working on my dissertation through an international pandemic, I'm quite proud of some of these. You might notice an odd space between 2020 and 2022. I didn't misplace anything; 2021 was a very, very rough year physically and mentally. Got a lot of reading done, at least!

Spring 2018 - Fall 2016 (Masters Years)

Here I start coming into my own as a scholar, finding ways to integrate my research into fan cultures, games and narrative media, and just a tiiiiiny bit of queer theory. 2016 was a year to remember for a lot of reasons (and not all of them good), but I did my best to make them memorable for good reasons. Though I certainly won't forget locking myself in my office for a day to finish the first chapter of my thesis, that's for sure...

Spring 2016 - Fall 2013 (Bachelor Years)

Very early work. I was still trying to figure out what to do with my life and learning, waffling between being an English Lit teacher or something else. Thanks to the advice of Dr. Julia Guernsey-Pitchford at ULM, I slowly pushed outside the confines of the page. This was also a time of a lot of soul searching into who I was and who I wanted to be.