On campus:	430A Phifer Hall 205.358.9552
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	Education:	MA, PhD, University of Texas at Austin MFA, Boston University BA, Berry College

Areas of Specialization

• Video Games & Interactive Entertainment
• Convergent Media Industries
• New Media Literacy
• Media Representations of War
• Ethnographic Audience Research

Publications/Creative Work

Books

• Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence, co-edited with Michael Kackman, Marnie Binfield, Allison Perlman, and Bryan Sebok (Routledge, in press). ISBN: 978-0415992220
• Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games, co-edited with Nina B. Huntemann (Routledge, 2009). ISBN: 978-0415996594

Academic Essays

• “Everything I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from Playing The Sims: the Educational Promise of Machine Cinema,” The Machinima Reader (MIT Press, 2011).
• “Attack of the Livid Dead: Recalibrating Terror in the Post-9/11 Zombie
  Film,” co-authored with Nick Muntean, The War on Terror and American
  Popular Culture: September 11 and Beyond (Fairleigh Dickinson University
  Press, 2009). ISBN: 978-0838642078
• “F*ck You, Noob Tube!: Learning the Art of Ludic LAN War,”Joystick Soldiers, (Routledge, 2009). ISBN: 978-0415996594
• “Manufacturing Militainment: Video Game Producers and Military Brand
  Games,” War Isn’t Hell, It’s Entertainment: Essays on Visual Media and
  Representation of Conflict (McFarland, 2009). ISBN: 978-0786435586
• “Interpreting Gameplay through Existential Ludology,” Handbook of
  Research on Effective Electronic Gaming in Education (Information Science
  Reference, 2009). ISBN: 978-1-59904-808-6
• “Playing the Deja-New: ‘Plug it in and Play TV Games’ and the
  Cultural Politics of Classic Gaming,” Playing the Past: History
  and Nostalgia in Video Games (Vanderbilt University Press, 2008). ISBN:
  978-0-8265-1601-5
• “The Digital Divide and its Discontents,” Currents in Electronic Literacy,
  Issue 9, Fall 2005. ISSN: 1524-6493

Additional Works

• “Introduction to Part III,” Co-authored with Michael Kackman, Marnie
  Binfield, Allison Perlman, and Bryan Sebok, Flow TV, (Routledge,
  forthcoming). ISBN: 978-0415992220
• “Introduction,” co-authored with Nina B. Huntemann, Joystick Soldiers,
  (Routledge, 2009). ISBN: 978-0415996594
• “Video Game Wii-ealism,” Video Curator Submission for In Media Res: a Media Commons Project. Available at:
  http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/videos/2007/07/19/video-game-
  wii-ealism/
• “This Week on Flow…Rita’s Paradox,” FlowTV – a journal of television
  and new media. Available at: http://flowtv.org/?p=277

Teaching

• Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin mvc.
  Development of the Motion Picture (Summer 2010, 2008-2007)
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin
  Introduction to Research Methods (Fall 2009)
  Children and Media (Fall 2009)
  Community Media (Spring 2009)
  Development of Motion Picture (Spring 2007 & Fall 2006)
  Alternative Media (Spring 2006)
  Media Literacy (Spring 2006 & Fall 2005)
  Introduction to Image & Sound (Spring 2005)
• Graduate Research Assistant, University of Texas at Austin
  Alternative Media (Summer 2005)
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Boston University
  Film Production II (Spring 2002)
  Film Production I (Spring 2002)
  Introduction to Cinema Studies (Fall 2001)
• Technical Trainer & Supervisor, Berry College
  TV10 Staff (2000-1999)

Scholarships& Honors

• William S. Livingston Graduate Fellowship (2010-2011)
• Microsoft Scholarship (2005)
• Boston University Communication Scholarship (2000-2002)
• Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities (1999-2000)
• Berry College Academic Scholarship (1996-2000)
• Dean’s List, Berry College (1996-2000)
• Hope Scholarship (1996-2000)
• Georgia Equalization Grant (1996-2000)
• Governor’s Scholarship (1996-2000)
• Robert C. Byrd Scholarship (1996-2000)
• Eleanor B. North Scholarship — Philosophy (1999-2000)
• Callaway Garden Scholarship (1996)

Production Credits & Awards

Writer/Director

• White Collar Revolutions (post); experimental short, super-16mm
• Transmissions (2003); narrative short, 16mm
  Official Selection of:
  2004 James River Film Festival – Richmond, VA
  2004 George Lindsey Film Festival – Florence, AL
  2003 Dahlonega Int’l Film Festival – Atlanta, GA
  2003 First Grade Film Festival – San Francisco, CA
  2003 Great Lakes Film Festival – Erie, PA
  2003 Boston Cinema Census – Boston, MA
• Missile Command, 1980 (2002); experimental short, video
• House Keeping (2001); narrative short, 16mm
• The Train (2000); music video, video
  1 st Place Music Video of 2000 Collegiate Crystal Awards

Director of Photography

• White Collar Revolutions (post); experimental short, super-16mm
  Shortness of Breath (post); feature, super-16mm; Zak Lee (dir.)
  By Any Other (2003); narrative short, 16mm; Derek Frank (dir.)
  1 st Place Narrative Short of 2003 Boston Film & Video
  Foundation – Boston, MA
  Official Selection of:
  2003 Rochester Int. Film Festival – Rochester, NY
  2003 Hi-Lo Film Festival – San Francisco, CA
  2003 Maryland Film Festival – Baltimore, MD
• To Eat (2003); narrative short, 16mm; Mike Fleisch (dir.)
  Best Ensemble Piece – Filmstock Film Festival–Luton, UK
  Official Selection of:
  2003 Woods Hole Film Festival – Woods Hole, MA
  2003 Arizona Film Festival – Tucson, AZ
  2003 Blackpoint Film Festival – Milwaukee, WI
• Tough All Over (2003); narrative short, 16mm; Keith Brown (dir.)
  Semi-Finalist of 2003 Angelus Student Film Competition –
  Los Angeles, CA
  Official Selection of:
  2003 Rhode Island Int. Film Festival – Providence, RI
  2003 Antelope Valley Ind. Film Festival – Lancaster, CA
  2003 Route 66 Film Festival – Springfield, IL

Assistant Director

• Jet Lag (post); short, high-def.; Derek Frank (dir.)
• Good Work (post); feature, 16mm; Mike Fleisch (dir.)