Teaching
University of Chicago Instructorships
- Winter 2023: Introduction to Game Design (undergraduate workshop, co-taught with Ashlyn Sparrow)
- Winter 2023: Alternate Reality Games: Theory and Production (mixed level workshop, co-taught with Heidi Coleman)
- Fall 2022: Critical Videogame Studies (undergraduate lecture and workshop, design concept emphasis)
- Winter 2022: Digital Media Aesthetics (graduate seminar)
- Winter 2022: Digital Media and Social Life: Contemporary Methods (undergraduate lecture, Stardew Valley as shared object, co-taught with Kristen Schilt)
- Fall 2021: Critical Videogame Studies (undergraduate lecture and workshop, genre emphasis, co-taught with Ashlyn Sparrow)
- Winter 2020: Politics of Media: From the Culture Industry to Google Brain (graduate seminar, co-taught with Kristen Schilt)
- Winter 2020: Climate Change in Media and Design (undergraduate seminar, co-taught with Benjamin Morgan)
- Fall 2019: Critical Videogame Studies (undergraduate lecture and workshop, concept emphasis)
- Winter 2019: Alternate Reality Games: Theory and Production (mixed-level workshop, co-taught with Heidi Coleman)
- Fall 2018: Critical Videogame Studies (undergraduate lecture and workshop)
- Fall 2018: Digital Media Theory (graduate seminar)
- Winter 2017: Imagining Futures: Speculative Design and Social Justice (mixed-level seminar and workshop, co-taught with Thenmozhi Soundararajan)
- Winter 2017: Advanced Study in Games and Performance (undergraduate workshop, co-taught with Heidi Coleman)
- Fall 2016: Alternate Reality Games: Theory and Production (undergraduate workshop, co-taught with Heidi Coleman)
- Fall 2016: Media Aesthetics: Image (UChicago “Core” undergraduate course)
- Winter 2016: Digital Storytelling (undergraduate seminar and workshop)
- Winter 2016: Media Aesthetics: Text (UChicago “Core” undergraduate course)
- Fall 2015: Digital Media Theory (graduate seminar)
- Fall 2015: Media Aesthetics: Image (UChicago “Core” undergraduate course)
- Winter 2014: Media Aesthetics: Text (UChicago “Core” undergraduate course)
- Fall 2013: Network Aesthetics | Network Cultures (PhD seminar, co-taught with visiting scholar Eivind Rossaak)
- Fall 2013: New and Emerging Genres (undergraduate seminar)
- Winter 2013: Media Aesthetics: Text (two sections of UChicago “Core” undergraduate course)
- Fall 2012: Transmedia Games: Theory and Design (mixed-level seminar and workshop, co-taught with visiting scholar Sha Xin Wei)
- Fall 2012: American Television: From Broadcast Networks to the Internet (undergraduate seminar)
- Winter 2012: Critical Videogame Studies (graduate seminar, history of games and play studies focus)
- Fall 2011: Digital Storytelling (undergraduate seminar)
- Winter 2011: New Media Theory (graduate seminar)
- Fall 2010: Virtual Worlds (undergraduate seminar)
University of Chicago Independent Studies
- Winter 2022: Game Design: Theory and Application (undergraduate)
- Fall 2021: Medium Specificity in Video Games: Interaction, Immersion, Storytelling (undergraduate)
- Spring 2020: Historical Methods in New Media Studies (graduate)
- Winter 2020: Quantitative Analysis of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (undergraduate)
- Winter 2019: Graphic Narratives from Historical Fiction to Speculative Storytelling (undergraduate)
- Winter 2017: Performing Death in Late Capitalism: From Necropolitics to Steve Jobs (graduate)
- Spring 2014: Network Art: Distance, Intimacy, and Correspondence (graduate/undergraduate workshop with 6 students)
- Spring 2013: Algorithmic Poetry (undergraduate)
- Spring 2013: Video Games and Empathy (graduate)
- Fall 2012: American Television (graduate)
- Winter 2012: The Fiction of David Foster Wallace (undergraduate)
- Spring 2011: New Wave Science Fiction (graduate)
- Winter 2011: Interdisciplinary Game Design (undergraduate workshop for 4 students)
- Fall 2010: Game Studies (graduate)
Duke University Instructorships
- Summer 2009: Control: Counterculture to Cyberpunk (undergraduate seminar)
- Spring 2009: American Hauntings (gateway undergraduate course)
- Spring 2008: Literary Networks (first-year undergraduate writing course)
- Fall 2007: Representing Terrorism in Fiction, Film, and Media (undergraduate seminar)
Duke University Teaching Assistantships
- Fall 2008: Contemporary American Writers (Prof. Victor Strandberg)
- Spring 2007: Introduction to Film (Prof. Jane Gaines)
- Fall 2006: The Pagan Catholic Imagination in American Literature (Prof. Thomas Ferraro)
- Fall 2005: The Human Genome in Fiction, Film, and the News (Prof. Priscilla Wald)
- Spring 2005: Body Works: Medicine, Technology, and the Body (Prof. Timothy Lenoir)
Pomona College Teaching Assistantships
- Spring 2004: Modern-Postmodern Fiction (Prof. Toni Clark)
- Fall 2003: Trauma, Time, and Fiction: Time-Travel of the Symptom (Prof. Paul Saint-Amour)
Other Teaching Experience and Mentorships
- 2010: Instructor, “Apocalypse Soon,” Talent Identification Program course for gifted students
- 2010: Instructor, Capstone Medical Humanities Seminar: “Viral Networks: Narrative, Media, and the Affects of Contagion” (course for medical grad students)
- 2010: Independent Study Supervisor, Nathaniel Donahue, “Genes, Patents, and Intellectual Property,” Durham Academy.
- 2009: Mentor, Kenan Fellows Program for Curriculum and Leadership Development
- 2001: Instructor, Urban Debate League Research Institute, Cal State Fullerton