Teaching

Current courses: Spring 2013

Reading Historically II (with Chris Schaberg)

(LoyNO) English A218

Introduction to Film + Digital Media Studies

(LoyNO) English A220

Research and Teaching Interests

Digital Media and Culture; New Media; Video Game Studies; Hypertext, Remix, and Digital Textuality; Web Composition; Digital and Multimedia Art; Metafiction; Postmodernism; 20th-Century US Fiction; Modernisms; Critical Theory.

Course Archive (arranged by topic and date)

(Digital) Media Studies

Posthumanism

(LoyNO) English A487

Web Composition

(LoyNO) English A408

Introduction to Film + Digital Media Studies

(LoyNO) English A220

Cyberspace and Everyday Life

(LoyNO) English A394

Close-playing, or, Bioshock as Practicum

(UW) Comparative History of Ideas 496: Focus Group

Keywords for Video Game Studies

(UW) Comparative History of Ideas 496: Focus Group

Why So Serious?: Video Games as Persuasion, Politics, and Propaganda

(UW) Comparative History of Ideas 496: Focus Group

Composing for the Web

(UW) English 282

Bioshock: Cyborg Morality and Posthuman Choice

(UW) Comparative History of Ideas 496: Focus Group

Pandora’s Wake: The Idea of Hope across Post-Apocalyptic Media

(UW) Comparative History of Ideas 496: Focus Group

Literature

A Close Reading of Infinite Jest

(UW) Comparative History of Ideas 496: Focus Group

Make it New Media

(UW) English 213: Modernism/Postmodernism

Immersion and Interactivity

(UW) English 242: Reading Fiction

Reading Literature, Reading Reality

(UW) English 200: Reading Literature

Against Interpretation

(UW) English 250: American Literature

Composition

Writing about Literature

(LoyNO) English 125

  • Summer 2012
  • Summer 2011
So What?: Stakes in Short Fiction

(UW) English 111: Composition, Literature

Images, Semiotics, and Hegemony: The Politicization of Pictures

(UW) English 131: First-year Composition

  • Fall 2004, Winter 2005, Spring 2005 [website]