Game studies | Latine Rhetoric | Digital Identity
I am a scholar, writer, sometimes game designer, and professor at Syracuse University. I currently teach in the University’s Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition.
I teach courses in composition and research, technical communication, user experience, and games. My research often focuses on the overlap between these areas. I study questions of how digital interfaces in games prompt emotional reactions from users, how this motivates behavior, and how to use it better communicate minority experiences. I explore how identity shapes and is shaped by online discourse. And I question how design tools can be mobilized to address injustice.
I frequently produce creative projects alongside my scholarship, resulting in several game projects both digital and analog.
My work has appeared in Design Issues, Textshop Experiments, and Kairos.