Teaching

• Introductory Literature Course

  • Studies in Literature

• Survey of American Literature

  • The Diversity Conversation in America

  • American Through-lines

• Special Topics

  • Imaginary Travel Narrative

  • Writing About Animals

• Rhetoric and Composition (upper division)

  • Strategic Communication

  • Technical Writing

  • Nature Writing

  • Professional Communication for Engineers

• First Year Composition

  • Expository and Argumentative Writing (3 sections; Summer 2020 moved online due to COVID-19)

  • Argument and Persuasion

  • Writing I with studio

Presentations and Publications

• Creature Redux: Chimera Past, Presents, and Futures co-edited with Ayanni C. H. Cooper, forthcoming from the University of Mississippi Press

• “Press X to Pet: A Critical Analysis of Dog-Petting Mechanics in High-Profile (MMO)RPGS.” Comparative American Studies: An International Journal, Jan 2024. Taylor & Francis Online, https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2023.2301192

• “Dragon Vibes: The shifting roles of dragons in contemporary fantasy literature.” International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts

• “Press X To Pet,” Animals in the American Popular Imagination, PopMeC

• “The Afterlives of Pets,” Popular Culture Association National Conference

• Skins of Sand, Fur, and Steel: Rethinking Personhood in Environmental, Animal, and Robotic Identities.” International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts   

• “Queer Necessities: Coming of Age in the Death of the Anthropocene.” International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts

• Isabel Briggs Myers Papers Digitization Project (available here https://ufdc.ufl.edu/myersbriggs)

• “The Fantasy of the American Liberator: Empire in The Graceling Realm Trilogy.” International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts

• “‘Someday They’ll Know:’ Ecofeminist Analysis of Terraforming in Richard McKenna’s ‘Hunter Come Home.’” International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts

• Old Dominion University Writing Center Help Documents (available here https://sites.wp.odu.edu/writingcenter/)

• “No Exit: The Inescapability of Imperialism and Colonialism in Mass Effect,” University of Florida English Graduate Organization Conference