Recent Scholarship:
“A Far Cry from Greatness: Christian Fundamentalism, Liberty Porn, and the ‘Good People’ of Trump’s America in Far Cry 5.” European Journal of American Culture, vol. 43, no. 2, 2024, pp. 109-125.
“Leveling Up Honors Education: Video Game Analysis in the Honors Classroom,” Advancing Honors Education for Today and Tomorrow, edited by Graeme Harper, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024, pp. 77-92.
“Turnt, Trippy, and Tipsy: Video Games, Drugs, and Allo-Ludic Play,” Anglica Wratislaviensia, special issue “American Culture in Games and Game Studies,” edited by Agata Zarzycka, vol. 61, no. 2, 2023, pp. 61-76.
Video Game Chronotopes and Social Justice: Playing on the Threshold. Palgrave Macmillan, Games in Context Series, 2022.
“Post-COVID Pedagogy and Ethics: A Call to Teach the Banality of Evil.” CEA Mid-Atlantic Review, vol. 29, 2021, pp. 39-51.
“Gaming under Biopolitical Sovereign Power: The Chronotope of the Abject in The Binding of Isaac.” Eludamos. Journal for Computer Game Culture, vol. 11, no. 1, 2020, pp. 55-70.
Being Dragonborn: Critical Essays on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
, edited by Mike Piero and Marc A. Ouellette, McFarland, 2021.
“Introduction: Skyrim as an Exemplary Game Text,” with Marc A. Ouellette. Being Dragonborn: Critical Essays on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, edited by Mike Piero and Marc A. Ouellette, McFarland, 2021, pp. 1-11.
“Portraits of the Neomedieval Family-Idyllic: Patriarchal Oikos and a Love without Love in Skyrim” with Marc A. Ouellette, Being Dragonborn: Critical Essays on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, edited by Mike Piero and Marc A. Ouellette, McFarland, 2021, pp. 120-136.
“Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs in Print and Film: Imaginations, Catastrophes, and the Being with of Being.” The Popular Culture Studies Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, 2019. pp. 104-124.
“Dialogical Numbers: Counting Humanimal Pain in J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello.” Transnational Literature, vol. 11, no. 1, 2018, pp. 1-19.
“Engaging Diverse Communities and Student Populations with Video Games: a Community College Perspective.” MediaCommons Field Guide. December 18, 2018.
English 1020: College Composition II. OER Textbook for College Composition II co-written with Tri-C Westshore’s English Department for free electronic distribution, 2018.
“Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs in Print and Film: Technology, Imagination, and the Networked Catastrophe.” MediaCommons Field Guide. December 3, 2016.
“Coetzee, Blanchot, and the Work of Writing: The Impersonality of Childhood.” MediaTropes, vol. 4, no. 2, 2014, pp. 79-97.
“Book Review of Communal Modernisms: Teaching Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture in the Twenty-First Century Classroom” Teaching English in the Two-Year College, vol. 42, no. 1, 2014, pp. 96-98.
“Wilde Expectations” What Philosophy Can Tell You About Your Lover, edited by Sharon Kaye, Open Court, 2012, pp. 95-103.
“Happiness, Dexter Style” Dexter and Philosophy, edited by Richard Greene, George Reisch, and Rachel Robinson, Pop Culture and Philosophy Series, Open Court, 2011, pp. 219-227.
“Writing J. M. Coetzee: Summertime, Auto/Biography, and the Resistance to Being Written.” MA Essay, John Carroll University, May 2011, doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29585.76644.
