I am currently a Lecturer in the Critical Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania, where I offer writing in the disciplines seminars on topics in digital media studies. I received my PhD in English from the University of Florida in 2019, my MA in English from Clemson University in 2014, and my BA in English from Emmanuel University in 2012. I teach, research, and publish primarily about game studies and electronic literature through a queer lens, with emphases on embodied rhetorics and post-digital affect. Courses I will teach at Penn this fall include Videogames vs. Feminist Difference and Profiling Identity on Social Media; I furthermore have previous university experience with courses in topics such as digital humanities, multimodal composition, and film studies, among other special topics.
I am a queer woman, and my positionality motivates the work I do in and out of the classroom and into the greater community. Plus, I am also a person with a life outside of work. I have a beautiful wife and daughter, a dog named Harper Lee, and a cat named Truman Capote. I love to listen to Radiohead, read anything by Gabriel García Márquez, and rewatch Sense8 at least once a year. Kirby is my favorite videogame character of all time and not just because they’re nonbinary.
Feel free to contact me and let’s see how we can connect and create!
