I am an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities in the Writing and Digital Media Program at Pennsylvania State University, Berks, where I specialize in comparative media studies, multimodal composition, and embodied rhetorics. 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 College in 2012. I teach, research, and publish primarily about topics in electronic literature and game studies, through a queer lens with emphases on affect and subversive materiality spanning both analog and digital contexts. Courses I teach at Berks primarily include Introduction to Digital Humanities, Introduction to Multimedia Production, and Writing for the Web, among other special topics offerings such as Videogames As Texts and Technologies. In addition to my research agenda and teaching record, I am currently preparing to found a digital humanities lab on campus, am passionate about service on causes for social justice and intersectional inclusion—and especially look for opportunities to combine the two aims.
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!
