Degrees

  • PhD - The Pennsylvania State University; University Park, PA
  • MA -  The Pennsylvania State University; University Park, PA
  • BA - Whitworth University; Spokane, WA

Areas of Research

  • Literary Historiography
  • The Long Eighteenth-Century
  • The Gothic Imagination
  • Supernatural Folklore

Publications:

  • "Recovery, Escape, and Consolation in Wizards and Demons and The Magician's Birthday: Reading Uriah Heep as Fantasy." Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination, edited by Chris Anderton and Lori Burns. Book chapter. (In press.)

  • "Toward a Practical Definition of Theopoetical Poetry." Christianity & Literature, vol. 71, no. 4.

  • Book Review, Anatomy of the Slasher Film: A Theoretical Analysis, by Sotiris Petridis. Fantasy/Animation, 2022.

  • Book Review, Slender Man is Coming: Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet, edited by Trevor J. Blank and Lynne S. McNeill. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts). Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 32, no. 1.

  • "Dancing in the Ruins: Toward an Affect-Narratology of the Spooky." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 31, no. 3.

  • Book Review, Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange, by Adam Scovell. Gothic Studies, vol. 22, no. 3 (Nov. 2020).

  • "Year in Conferences - 2018." Co-authored with Rachel Linnea Brown, Susanna Compton, Ryan Charlton, and Amy Huang. ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture 65.1 (2019).

  • Book review, Stephen King's Contemporary Classics: Reflections on the Modern Master of Horror. SFRA Review 329 (Summer 2019).

Presentations:

  • "The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom: A Gothic Story" East Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Williamsburg, VA, 13 ? 14 Oct. 2023.

  • "Excavating the Castle; or, A Secret History Untold: the Forgotten Beginning of Gothic Studies." International Gothic Summer School, Manchester, UK, 6 - 9 June 2023.

  • "Swords to Dice: Simulationism vs. Instrumentalism in the Evolution of Dungeons & Dragons." Co-authored with Gavin Davis. International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI, 11 ? 13 May 2023.

  • "Does anyone remember": Ineffective Remediation and the Narrative Affordances of Creepypasta. Roundtable presentation participant for "Gothic Now: Gothic Forms," MLA Gothic Studies Forum, chaired by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. Modern Language Association Convention. San Francisco, CA, 5 - 8 Jan. 2023

  • "Recovery, Escape, and Consolation in Wizards and Demons and The Magician's Birthday: Reading Uriah Heep as Fantasy." Progressive Rock: Geography, Culture, Discourse (Project Network Biennial Conference), Oxford, UK, 2022.

  • "Why is Fantasy Literature So Essential; A Conversation with Joshua B. Tuttle." Podcast interview, interviewed by Marissa Cruz, co-coordinator of Klio's Sci-Fi and Fantasy initiative. Penn State, 22 Mar. 2022.

  • "Folk Horror: New Media and Uncanny Enchantment." Remarks given at the Spooky Society. Bellefonte, PA, 29 Oct. 2019.

  • "Warrior Ethos." Creative Nonfiction. The Main Street Rag 21.4 (Fall 2016).

  • "Folk Horror vs. Folklore: Bringing Lore and Horror Back Together." Remarks given at the Spooky Society. Bellefonte, PA, 26 Sep. 2019.

  • "On Call." Fiction. Third place, Quarter-Life Crisis - anthology entry contest. Songs of My Selfie. Three Rooms Press, 2015.