Huzzah! I sold my first poem! Entitled “Dear, Ursula,” the poem is about my experience meeting and spending a little bit of time with the legendary Ursula K. Le Guin during two visits to the…
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 released a preview of a collection of short essays and…
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 the Works of Octavia E. Butler (MLA 2019) edited by…
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 great grumpy cat cover, features writing from a host of…
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 experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship…In Media Res…
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 Brad” arrived! It is really weird and fun and silly…
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 popular interests. While attending the 27th Annual Meeting of the…
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 idea. Alas, I did not make it into the collection…