I received my Ph.D in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University, where I also completed my Master of Arts degree in Literary and Textual Studies. Currently, I am a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. For two years I taught Ethnic Studies and was formerly the research assistant with the Institute for the Study of Culture & Society, a humanities institute at BGSU that hosts public events featuring noted scholars from across the country and supports faculty research and innovation in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
I earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and Anthropology from California State University Sacramento in 2010.
My article, “The Art of Wall Building: The Caminata Nocturna and the Rhetoric of Nationalism,” was published in the Journal of Popular Culture’s January 2020 issue. I have also been published in the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds and The Social Science Journal. My research interests primarily concern queerness, gender dynamics, xenophobia, and masculinity in video games, American popular culture, and online gamer communities. I am currently working on a collaborative project that scrapes and codes qualitative Twitch chatlog data to investigate shifting audience reactions to games about trauma and loss.
For more information see my Curriculum Vitae.