curriculum vitae

Education

-2022-

• MA of English Literature from Western Washington University

-2020-

• BA of English Literature; BA of Creative Writing from Western Washington University

Scholarship, Commentary, and Criticism

-2023-

• "Playing to Remember/Remembering to Forget," featured story, Tarragon Magazine, Volume 1
• "A Ride Through the Objective Field of Passion," cover feature, Unwinnable Monthly, Issue #160

-2022-

• Elvia Wilk's Death by Landscape, book review, Exploits, Issue 55
• Feel the Gentle Touch of Tentacles: The Sinking City, game review, gameoeuvre.org
• SEPARATION PERFECTED: A Catastrophic Translation, self-published translation, vodselbt.itch.io
• Rafael Bernal's His Name Was Death, book review, Exploits, Issue 48

-2021-

• “Review: A Play of Bodies: How We Perceive Videogames by Brendan Keogh," book review, Press Start, Vol. 7, Issue 1
• "Trace Then Describe," article, noescapevg.com

-2020-

• “The Hero Industry: Spectacular Pacification in the Era of Media Interactivity," essay, Occam's Razor, Vol. 10
• “A Failed and Unintelligible Analogy: The Phenomenology of Virtual Space in Kitty Horrorshow’s ANATOMY," essay, First Person Scholar

-2019-

• “’A Man, A Desk, A Chair, A Glass of Water’: Spalding Gray & the Cinematic Monologue," commentary, In Media Res, Media Collaborations week
• “And What of Those Immaterial Death Strandings?," commentary, In Media Res, Hideo Kojima week
• “Weird Decentering: The unNatural in H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness,” essay, Occam's Razor, Vol. 9

Fiction

-2023-

• "Slowly Through the Middle-Distance," short story, State of Matter, Issue 8

-2021-

• "1974: The Ambiguous Character Like Mitzi Hubbock," short story, Expat Press

-2020-

• "Damned Machine," short story, The Lit Quarterly Volume 2

Speaking Occasions

-2022-

• “Time and Timelessness in Virtual Space," 2022 PAMLA Conference, in the session on Video Game Studies.

-2021-

• “Approaching Videogame Textuality via Autobiography: Written Let’s Plays and Ben Abraham’s Permanent Death," 2021 PAMLA Conference, in the session on Video Game Studies.

Grants and Awards

• Recipient of the 2022 Western Washington University English Department Excellence in Teaching Award
• Recipient of the 2021 Ross Travel Grant

last updated august 2023