I am a Chicago-based writer, critic, and scholar. My criticism has been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere. My scholarship explores the intersections of video games and literature and is featured or forthcoming in Game Studies and Angelaki. I have taught in the Media Arts and Design Program at the University of Chicago and in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University.

As a theorist, I explore the question: how does a world emerge from language? To this end, I study the capacity of language to act as an autonomous and inhuman force across material, ecological, and digital modes. My interdisciplinary approach to these issues is predominantly informed by media theory, literary theory, and critical theory, especially poststructuralism and science and technology studies.

Presently, I’m working on a monograph about how the virtual worlds of video games manifest in and as language. I’m also charting future work on the linguistic and ecological implications of artificial intelligence.

I hold a Ph.D. an an M.S. in Digital Media from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where I also earned a certification in Science and Technology Studies, and a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I also completed a minor and a thesis in Creative Writing.

You can find my writing, teaching portfolio, game design portfolio, and contact information in the header above. Thanks for stopping by!