Staff & Faculty Directory

Books

• Info/Comm/tech in popular culture: An encyclopedic time capsule. Peter Lang, 2026. Co-Written with Linda K. Fuller.
• Mind, Body, and Emotion in the Reception and Creation Practices of Fan Communities: Thinking Through Feels. Palgrave Fan Studies, Springer Nature, 2023.

Journal Articles

• “Pic sets, fan cognition, and fannish networks of meaning.” Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 38, 2022.
• “Gifs and Performative Spectatorship.” “Performative X” Special Issue of Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, vol. 35, no. 2, 2021. Co-authored with Amy Cook.
• “Fossil Fuel Extraction, Green Neoliberal Consumption, and Crude Optimism in the Vamprocene.” Response: The Journal of Popular and American Culture, vol. 5, no. 2, 2020.
• “Terraforming the Earth that Was: Planetary Engineering, Utopia, and the Anthropocene” in Joss Whedon’s Firefly and Serenity.” Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+, vol. 18, no. 2, 2020.
• “A GIF for Everything: The Rhetorical Affordance of GIFs by Tumblr’s Supernatural Fandom.” Transformative Works and Cultures, Special Issue: Tumblr and Fandom, vol. 27, 2018.
• “‘One of your little pop culture references’: Argument, Intertextuality, and Literary Affordance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fanfiction.” Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+, vol. 16, no. 1, 2018.
• “‘What the Geisha has gotten into you?’: Colorblindness, Orientalist Stereotypes, and the Problem of Global Feminism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight.” Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffystudies, vol. 12/13, no. 2/1, 2014/2015.
• “Staking Her Colonial Claim: Colonial Discourses, Assimilation, Soul-making, and Ass-kicking in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+, vol. 9, no. 1, 2011.

Book Chapters

• “We are Playing in a Material World: Thinking and Learning Through the Physical Objects of Tabletop Roleplaying Games.” Education and Role-Playing Games: Theory and Pedagogy, Edited by Susan Haarman, Rutledge, 2025.
• “Rol(l)ing Up Characters: Conceptual Bledning Theory, Casting, and Character Construction in Dungeons and Dragons.” Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborive, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons, edited by Suzanne Richardson and Edmond V. Change, Play Story Press, 2025.
• “Casting the Future in Bridgerton’s Past.” Co-written with Amy Cook. Adapting Bridgerton, Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. McFarland, 2024.
• “Buffy, Hamilton, and Jon Snow Go to Hogwarts: Literary Affordance and the Hogwarts Houses as Interpretative Framework and Rhetorical Tool.” Fan Phenomena: Harry Potter, Fan Phenomena Series, Intellect. October 15, 2019.
• “Angel and Faith Season Ten‘s Journey into the Heart of Darkness: Intertextuality, Redemption, and Rewriting (Neo)colonial Discourses in Lost and Found.” After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon’s Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel, SmartPop, 2015.