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I am a PhD candidate in the Rhetoric & Writing program at Virginia Tech, with research and teaching interests in digital rhetoric, web writing and design, composition, markup languages, media studies, and creative writing. My dissertation--a history of hacking--explores 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, examining the commercialization/privatization of the rhetorical canons of memory and delivery. I argue that hacking is a practice of memory and delivery--one that uses the cultural/commercial assumptions about memory and delivery to exploit, challenge, and change technology.

I'm also working on a fork of ComicsML to better facilitate the use of accessible web comics in documentation (a collaboration with Dr. Carlos Evia and Dr. Manuel Perez-Quinones), and I'm finalizing a study of griefing practices in online video games (a collaboration with Dr. Dan Lawson and Evan Snider).

I'm an assistant editor at Kairos, and I'm a blog editor for Computers & Composition Digital Press. At Virginia Tech, I'm a Composition Program Assistant serving the Writing Center, and I was formerly a fellow at the Graduate Education Development Institute.

I've published my scholarship in The Journal of College Writing and Reconstruction, and new work is forthcoming in edited collections. I've presented my research at Computers and Writing, The Conference on College Composition and Communication, The International Conference on Narrative, and others.

I received my MFA in Creative Writing from Virginia Tech, and my poetry has appeared in many literary publications.

I spent Summer 2011 working as an Academic Dean for the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, and in Fall 2011 I'm teaching ENGL4814: Writing for the Web at Virginia Tech.