Current Research Projects
Kitbashing The Classroom: Incorporating Tabletop Role Playing Mechanics into course assignments and Structure
Art, Empathy, & Incarceration: Experiencing Japanese Incarceration through Graphic Narratives
Using D&D as Therapy
Additionally, I am completing a project exploring Contemporary Anti-Developmental Fictions and their role in spotlighting, confronting, and responding to Systemic inequalities and legacies of trauma.
Research Keywords:
Young Adult Literature, Children's Literature, Bildungsroman, Entwicklungsroman, Literature produced by historically Marginalized Authors, Comics, Graphic Novels, Trauma Theory, Role Playing Game Theory, 20th & 21st Century Anglophone Literature, Coming Of Age Literature, Adolescent Literature, Graphic Narratives, Game Theory, New Media Studies