Current courses: Spring 2013
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
Introduction to Film + Digital Media Studies
(LoyNO) English A220
Close-playing, or, Bioshock as Practicum
(UW) Comparative History of Ideas 496: Focus Group
- Winter 2011 [website]
Keywords for Video Game Studies
(UW) Comparative History of Ideas 496: Focus Group
- Fall 2010 [website]
Why So Serious?: Video Games as Persuasion, Politics, and Propaganda
(UW) Comparative History of Ideas 496: Focus Group
- Winter 2010 [website]
Bioshock: Cyborg Morality and Posthuman Choice
(UW) Comparative History of Ideas 496: Focus Group
- Fall 2009 [website]
Pandora’s Wake: The Idea of Hope across Post-Apocalyptic Media
(UW) Comparative History of Ideas 496: Focus Group
- Winter 2009 [website]
Literature
A Close Reading of Infinite Jest
(UW) Comparative History of Ideas 496: Focus Group
- Spring 2010 [website]
Composition
Writing about Literature
(LoyNO) English 125
- Summer 2012
- Summer 2011
Images, Semiotics, and Hegemony: The Politicization of Pictures
(UW) English 131: First-year Composition
- Fall 2004, Winter 2005, Spring 2005 [website]