His areas of interest include technoculture, gender and sexuality, cultural studies, video games, popular culture, and contemporary American literature. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington and his dissertation is entitled "Technoqueer: Re/con/figuring Posthuman Narratives." He has extensive teaching experience at the university level and won the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award in 2011 and the UW Excellence in Teaching Award in 2009. He has taught classes on re-reading high school novels, science fiction, Harry Potter, technology and identity, even live-action role-playing games. He has published an article "Gaming as Writing, Or, World of Warcraft as World of Wordcraft" in the Fall 2008 Computers & Composition Online Special Issue on "Reading Games" and an article on queering cyberpunk and an article on Alan Turing are in progress. He has a cat named Groosalugg.