Research

Research & Interest Areas

20/21C American Literature
  • surveys of 20/21C American literature
  • diversity & the literary canon
  • Asian American, African American, and Ethnic American literature
  • graphic novels & young adult literature
  • emphasis on ethnic futurisms and speculative literatures color (e.g. Asianfuturism, Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futurism)
  • Vice President of the Octavia E. Butler Literary Society: https://oebliterarysociety.weebly.com/
Queer Theory & Cultural Studies
  • queer literature & queer theory
  • emphasis race, gender, sexuality, & intersectionality
  • feminist media studies
  • posthumanism & technoculture
  • popular culture
Analog & Video Game Studies
Composition & Rhetoric
  • games & writing
  • computers & writing
  • digital rhetoric
  • queer rhetoric
  • first year writing
Pedagogy & Professionalization
  • teaching (with) literature
  • teaching (with) writing
  • teaching (with) games
  • graduate student professionalization & job placement