Current Leadership Roles
Advisory Board, Studies in Tolkien, 2024 – present
Associate editor, Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2024 – present
Member, FSNNA organizing committee, 2021 – present
Current Projects
As of summer 2026, I’m working on:
- sword & sorcery and TSR novels (article out for review)
- D&D novels (finishing book proposal)
- playing apocalypse and ecofabulations of fantasy in ExU: Calamity (drafting)
- early D&D fanzines (drafting)
- pop culture audiences’ definitions of “canon” (data analysis)
Past Projects
These are some of the other neat things I’ve worked on:
- Co-investigator with Sarah Breyfogle, “A Typology of Comfort Characters” (IRB-exempted online survey, 2022)
- Co-investigator with Megan Abrahamson, “Black Fingon & Racebending in Tolkien Fanart” (IRB-exempted online survey, 2022)
- Co-investigator with Billy Tringali, “Anime Conventions Before and After Covid-19″ (IRB-exempted online survey, 2020-2021)
- Co-investigator with Dawn Walls-Thumma, “The Tolkien Fanfiction Survey” (IRB-exempted online survey, 2020)