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Conferences.

  • November 2025: Conference Paper & Short Story
    PAMLA Conference, San Francisco, CA
    ”A Psychic Palimpsest: Using Mad Studies to Explore Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice”
    ”Per Second Per Second”

  • March 2025: Conference Paper
    SWPACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM 
    ”Bargaining with Foreign Gods: Embodying & Enframing Madness in Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice”

  • November 2024: Conference Paper & Creative Non-Fiction
    PAMLA Conference, Palm Springs, CA
    ”Translating Empire: Stealth Gameplay as Queer Reframing of Power”
    ”Andromeda: A Glossary”

  • February 2024: Conference Paper
    SWPACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM
    ”The Explorable Psyche: Videogame Space as Metaphor for Self”

  • October 2023: Conference Paper
    PAMLA Conference, Portland, OR
    ”Seeing Double: The Recursive Self and Psychological Repetition in Returnal”

  • October 2023: Conference Paper
    RMMLA, Golden, CO
    ”Who Has Control? A Dialogic Game Derived from the Crowdsourced Imaginary”

  • April 21 2023: Conference Paper
    MELUS Conference, Indianapolis, IN
    ”From Margin to Center: Autoethnographic Videogames Crossing Neocolonial Borders”

  • March 23 2023: Conference Paper
    NeMLA Conference, Niagara Falls, NY
    ”Playing Human: Psychological and Sociological Transhumanism in Videogames”

  • March 11 2023: Conference Paper
    HERA Conference, El Paso TX
    ”Playing Against Empire: Using Procedural Rhetoric in Autoethnographic Videogames”

  • Nov 10 2022: Conference Paper
    PAMLA Conference, Los Angeles, CA
    ”Ludic Manifest Destiny: Colonial Metaphors and Colonial Resistance in Video Game Spaces”