As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the sudden need to shift face-to-face teaching to online, particularly at colleges and universities, the MLA has…
My essay “Drawing the Oankali: Imaging Race, Gender, and the Posthuman in Octavia Butler’s Dawn” is finally out, in print, in Approaches to the Teaching…
My essay entitled “Playing as Making” is finally out in Disrupting the Digital Humanities edited by Dorothy Kim and Jesse Stommel. The collection, with a…
This past week’s In Media Res featured five short essays and provocations about the mobile game Pokemon Go: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/theme-week/2016/41/pokemon-go-october-17th-october-21st-2016. In Media Res is “dedicated to…
I received a very pleasant surprise when I checked my campus mailbox today: my copy of _Deconstructing Brad Pitt, which contains my essay “Gay for…
Sometimes there is just the right combination of serendipity, whim, magic, and mischief that results in an opportunity to mix professional and personal, academic and…
A little while back, I submitted an academic article idea for an edited collection on Hermione Granger/Harry Potter novels. I thought it was a good…