As an associate professor, I currently teach in the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Doctoral Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine (2020 – 2021). Previously, as an assistant professor, I taught in UC Irvine’s Department of Informatics (2017 – 2019).
Before joining UCI, I taught in the Interactive Media and Games Division at the University of Southern California (2015 – 2019) where I worked as a Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar. During my time as a doctoral student, I taught in a number of departments at the University of California, Berkeley (2010 – 2015), including the Berkeley Center for New Media.
Sample syllabi
The following represent a selection of original syllabi that I have developed and/or significantly redesigned:
– “Internet Studies” (Flm&Mda 144) fall 2021 – Film and Media Studies, UCI
– “Fan Studies” (Flm&Mda 139w) fall 2021 – Film and Media Studies, UCI
– “Queer Theory and Media Studies” (VisStud 295) fall 2020 – Doctoral Program in Visual Studies, UCI
– “Cultural Perspectives on Digital Media” (Flm&Mda 85c) spring 2020 – Film and Media Studies, UCI
– “Computer Games and Society” (ICS 60) fall 2017 – Department of Informatics, UCI
– “Experimental Game Topics” (CTIN 492-L) spring 2016 – Interactive Media & Games Division, USC
– “Gender and Sexuality in Video Games” (CTIN 499) fall 2015 – Interactive Media & Games Division, USC
Reading lists for game studies summer seminars
Each summer for the past five summers (2017 – 2021), I have organized and run an 8-week, seminar-style reading group for graduate students at UC Irvine interested in game studies. The group explores important contemporary game studies topics that students are often not exposed to in traditional seminars:
– “New Work in Game Studies” – summer 2021
– “Race and Gaming” – summer 2020
– “A Summer in the Global South: Games and Post-Colonialism” – summer 2019
– “Queer and Feminist Game Studies” – summer 2018
– “Game Studies Canons and Counter-Canons” – summer 2017
Student evaluations
The following is a selection of packets of student evaluations from my courses. They reflect students’ appreciation for the dynamic, engaging nature of my teaching and the subject matter I teach.
– Flm&Mda 110 “Media and the Body,” spring 2021 – 24 undergrad students
– VisStud 295 “Queer Theory and Media Studies,” fall 2020 – 20 grad students
– Flm&Mda 85C “Cultural Perspectives on Digital Media,” spring 2020 – 335 undergrad students
– CTIN 499 “Video Games, Identity, and Diversity,” fall 2016 (USC) – 25 students, mixed undergrad and MFA
– CTIN 492-L “Experimental Game Topics,” spring 2016 – 20 students, mixed undergrad and MFA
