Research
My research is Digital Media in general, and video games in particular. I'm also interested in the novel House of Leaves, CSI:, and Alternate Reality Gaming.
My MA Thesis was on music in video games, and I've completed coursework and exams for my Ph.D., the dissertation for which is on typography in video games. My complete publications are detailed at my CV, and I've listed below some coursework and other projects that haven't made into publishable form for a variety of reasons.
CSI/CSD: Crime Scene Discussion
Fictitious message board community created for ENG 6934 Digital English Spring 2005 Dr. Gregory Ulmer.
Inventing
a Jazz Nation; An Experiment in Heuretics.
For ENG 6137: "Language of Film" Spring 2003 Dr. Gregory Ulmer.
(Published as a praxis example on Dr. Ulmer's EmerAgency
project.)
(
! ): Embedded Narrative Structure in Coleridge and the ontology of playing
video games.
For
ENG 6077 - "Visual Narrative: Textual Displacement, Transformation,
& Revision." Summer 2003. Dr. Donald Ault.
Product
Placement and Virtual Branding in Video Games.
For LIT 6934 - "Commercial Culture" Fall 2003
Dr. James Twitchell.
Game/Genre:
A Critique of Generic Formulas in Video Games in the Context of "The
Real."
For ENG 6138 - "Television Theory" Fall 2003
Dr. Roger Beebe.
Research
The majority of my research energy is directed to various aspects of my dissertation on videogame typography, but I also try to work on other things. Please consult my curriculum vitae for the complete list.
Teaching
I am currently teaching a section of a course called "Forms of Narrative." I'm calling my approach "Archaeologies of Story." Students in the course are creating weekly blog entries which you can view on our course website. I also have a page about my past teaching which includes ENC 1101, ENC 2210, and ENG 1131 as well as Web Design classes through the Image Lab.
Book
Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Videogames, forthcoming 2008 from Vanderbilt University Press. Edited by Zach Whalen and Laurie N. Taylor.
Other Sites to Visit
- Gameology.org
- ImageTexT
- TheVideogameText.com (soon)
Recent Publications
- "Deviant Materialities: Reflecting Surfaces and Hollow Bodies in CSI." Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media. 13 (2008).
- "Film Music vs. Video Game Music: The Case of Silent Hill." Music, Sound, and Multimedia. Ed. Jamie Sexton. Edinburgh: Edinburgh U P, 2007.
- "Game Studies and Web 2.0: Finding an Audience Online." Flow TV. Department of Radio-TV-Film at UT Austin. 9 February 2007.
