Academic Publications
“What Kind of Person Are You Going To Be? What Digital Role-Playing Games Can Offer Fiction Writers.” Dungeons, Dragons and Digital Denizens: Digital Role-playing Games. Eds. Gerald Voorhees, Joshua Call, and Katie Whitlock. New York: Continuum, in press, expected publication Dec. 2011. Print.
“Gaming, World Building, and Narrative: Using Role-Playing Games to Teach Fiction Writing.” Proceedings for the Games, Learning and Society 7.0 Conference. Pittsburg, PA: ETC Press, in press, September 2011.
Conference Presentations
“Build Me a World: Videogame Fan Wikis as Models for Building Fictional Worlds.” AWP Conference. Chicago, IL. February 2012. (upcoming)
“Playing in Character: Role-playing Games and Character Development.” Midwest MLA Conference. St. Louis, MO. November 2011. (upcoming)
“Units of Meaning: Videogame Criticism, Literary Analysis, and Effective Pedagogy.” Midwest MLA Conference. St. Louis, MO. November 2011. (upcoming)
“Gaming, World Building, and Narrative: Using Role-Playing Games to Teach Fiction Writing.” Games+Learning+Society Conference 7.0. Madison, WI. June 2011.
“Gaming and Creative Writing: Theory and Practice.” Technology and Pedagogy Forum at UW-Milwaukee. Milwaukee, WI. April 2011.
“Leveling Up: Using Video Games as Teaching Tools in Introductory Writing Courses.” Second Annual UWM First-Year Composition Professional Development Conference. Milwaukee, WI. May 2010.
“Broken Bodies, Broken Worlds: Varieties of Dystopia in the Works of Paolo Bacigalupi.” Fifth Annual UW-Madison Graduate Student Conference in Language and Literature, Liminal Literature: Borders and Genre. Madison, WI. Feb. 2009.
“Straddling Borders: Science Fiction and the Fantastic As Transgressive Literatures.” Panel presentation. Fifth Annual UW-Madison Graduate Student Conference in Language and Literature, Liminal Literature: Borders and Genre. Madison, WI. Feb. 2009.
“Introducing Technology Into the Composition Classroom: Some Assumptions and Suggested Practices.” First-Year Composition Graduate Student Conference Presented by UWM and Marquette University. Milwaukee, WI. Dec. 2008.