Goblin from Arthur Rackham illustrations for Rosetti's Goblin Market

Presentations

"Position Paper" at the "Codework" Center for Literary Computing Workshop. Morgantown, WVU: April 3-6, 2008.
"Love in the Binding" at the "ImageSexT: Intersections of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality" Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, Gainesville, FL; Mar. 21-22, 2008.
"Choices for Building Digital Libraries" invited presentation at the College of the Bahamas' Virtual Library Committee at the College of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas; Mar. 3, 2008.
"File Formats 101" at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, in the PARS Digital Preservation Group Meeting, Philadelphia, PA: Jan. 13, 2007.
"Why Are Comic Books Not Commonly Used in the Classroom? What Subjects Are Suitable For Comics?" invited presentation at the "Comics in the Classroom: Understanding the Educational Uses of Comic Books" Jewish Museum of Florida's Professional Development Workshop, Miami Beach, FL; Oct. 21, 2007.
"Laws, Ethics, Unwritten Rules, & Etiquette" at the "World Building: Space and Community" Game Studies Conference, Gainesville, FL; Mar. 1-2, 2007.
"Automated or Empty: Zombies in Video Games and Computers" at the "Reel Fear: Horror, Suspense and Anxiety in Postmodern Film" Film Studies Symposium, Gainesville, FL; Oct. 19-20, 2006.
"Virtual Bodies: Game Gender as Style and Structure" invited presentation at the University of Idaho's "Power, Identity, and Community in Virtual Worlds: A Speaker Series" in Moscow, ID; September 12, 2006; with speakers Shawn Rider, Julian Dibbell, and Rick Fehrenbacher. (abstract)
"Time of the Twins: Video Games Presenting the Unrepresentable Through Haunting" at the "Alien/Other" Game Studies Conference, Gainesville, FL; Apr. 7-8, 2006.
"New Demands in Emerging Fields: Mentoring as a Graduate Student" at the Graduate Studies Forum, Gainesville, FL; Apr. 1-2, 2006.
"Constructions and Reconstructions of the Gothic" at the MLA Conference, Washington, DC; Dec. 27-30, 2005; with panelists Ted Wesp and Eric Hayot.
"Game Studies Connecting to the World at Large: An Academic, and Activist use of the Blogosphere" at the EGO Conference, Gainesville, FL; Oct. 27-29, 2005. (full presentation)
"Scars, Tattoos, and History: Video Game Flesh as Memory" at the Popular Culture Association in the South Conference, Jacksonville, Florida; Oct. 6-8, 2005.
"Reading as Performance: Movable Books, Interactive Software, Video Games, and Wordless Picture Books" at the Children's Literature Association Conference, University of Winnipeg; June 9 - 12, 2005.
"Science and Video Games" at Transforming Encounters II: Children and Science, Imagination and Inquiry, University of Florida; Feb. 18-19, 2005.
"Legendary Warlords in Honnou-ji Temple, Sakai City, Arc de Triomphe, and Notre Dame: Cross Influences of Video Games and Film" at Trans/National Film and Literature: Cultural Production and the Claims of History, Florida State State University; Jan. 27-29, 2005.
"Fairytale Nightmares: Goth Comics' Women and Children Characters" at the Third Annual Comics Conference: Simultaneity and Sequentiality, UF; Oct. 29-30, 2004.
"Engines and Spoilers: Racing Games for Children and Adults" at Children's Literature and Constellations of Youth: Intersecting Adults' and Children's Culture, UF; Oct. 21-23, 2004.
"Gaming Girls Playing with Power: Possibility Spaces in Game Design and Game Play" within panel "Textual Play: Women's Work in Literary Hypermedia Worldwide" at Society for Literature and Science Conference, Duke; Oct. 14-17, 2004; with panelists Marjorie Luesebrink and Stephanie Strickland.
"Siblings (and Doppelgangers) in Video Games" at The Digital Narratives Conference, UCLA; Apr. 22-23, 2004. Organized panel "Re:play: Games"
"The Open Source Model and Real World Collaborative Pedagogy" at Catastrophe Now: The Wreckage of Utopia, UF; Mar. 25-26, 2004; with co-author Brendan Riley.
"Towards a Ludic Model? Smooth and Striated Space in Video Games," at the Form, Culture, and Video Game Criticism Conference, Princeton; Mar. 6, 2004.
"Using MUDs in MOOs to Create Collaborative Narrative Practice" at Computers and Writing, Purdue; May 22-5, 2003; with co-authors Brendan Riley and Mike Sansone.
"The Learning, Cooperation, and Positives that Video Games Engender" at The Children, Culture, and Violence Conference, UF; Mar. 20-1, 2003.
"Webcomics and the Influence and Continuation of the Underground Comix Revolution" at The Undergrounds: 2003 Comics Conference, UF; Feb. 7-8, 2003.
"Retraceable Readings: Video Game and Comic Composite" at Theoretical Misfits: the 2nd Annual UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference, UF; April 4-6, 2002.
"Compromised Divisions: Panels as Thresholds in Comics and Video Games" at the The First Annual Comics Conference, the Will Eisner Symposium, UF; Feb. 20-21, 2002. Organized panel "Pressing and Stressing Boundaries: How Panels Operate in Comics and Video Games."