ENG 150 Playing to Save the Planet: Video Games as Environmental Literature
ENG 175 Indigenous Video Games
ENG 341/ENV 302 Testing Grounds and Terminal Beaches: Irradiated Literatures
ENG 359 Navigating New Zealand: Māori Cosmologies, Kaitiakitanga, and Keri Hulme
ENG 371 Irradiated Spacetimes
Selected Publications
“THIS WHOLE PLACE IS A FISH: Refuse, refuge, and subjectivities of surplus in a Moeraki Midden.” Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies. (24 July 2025).
“The slow regard of a terminal Season: apocalypse and environmental memory in SEASON: A Letter to the Future.” Video Games as Ecomedia: Nature, Technology, and Play. Edited by Melissa Bianchi. (Forthcoming Fall 2025).
“Our sea of caesium: atomically-standardized time and atomically-irradiated space in a nuclear Pacific.” Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture Special Issue on “Radioactive Empires: The Nuclear Relations of Coloniality.” (Forthcoming December 2025).
“Auroral heliotropes of the Anthropocene and wandering the “quiet apocalypse” of The Long Dark (2017).” Playing to Save the World: Environmental Humanities and the Video Game, edited by Kelly I. Aliano and Adam Crowley. (November 2024).
“Come Armageddon or high water:” Kānaka Maoli cosmologies in the ecopoetry of On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World).” Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics, edited by Julie Fiedorczuk, Mary Newell, Bernard Quetchenbach, and Orchid Tierney (September 2023).
“Radioactive spacetimes and the quantum cosmologies of Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner.” Australian Feminist Studies (27 November 2023).
Awards & Fellowships
National
Feb. 2024 Headwaters Artist Residency, Headwaters (Declined)
Mar. 2023 Northeast Modern Language Association Graduate Student Caucus Essay Award
Dec. 2022 Finalist, Cleaver Literary Magazine international fiction contest for “Whale Craters”
Wake Forest University
Summer 2025 William C. Archie Fund for Faculty Excellence for Foreshore Cosmologies
