Now

Work in motion

A dated account of what I am reading, writing, researching, teaching, building, and making.

Conference Presentations

On October 4, 2026, Mallory Lectka and I presented “Designing for Feeling: From Creative Choice to Affective Continuity” at CWSC26 in Rochester, New York. I presented my Wildacres participatory workshop, “Going Analog Without Pretending Digital Infrastructure Disappears,” on October 6, and “Capture, Replay, Develop: The Operative Archive in Contemporary Horror Games” at OBSCURA in Seville in October. Next is the accepted TCWCC session “From Worldbuilding to World Repair” in Omaha, November 5–7. My accepted online DL2 presentation follows December 3–4, and “Genre Guilds” is accepted for CHEP at Virginia Tech, February 3–5, 2027. Exact upcoming session assignments remain pending. See presentation details.

Reading

Preparing for qualifying examinations across writing pedagogy, digital literacy, and writing with AI. I am especially interested in how rhetorical judgment, authorship, accessibility, confidence, and transfer intersect across these conversations.

Writing

Developing The Price of Sounding Like You Belong and the broader ghostwriter/co-author research line. The manuscript on multilingual rhetorical agency in AI-assisted professional communication is in pre-submission review after its abstract was accepted for The Mega Journal. My commissioned review of Sidney I. Dobrin’s AI and Writing, second edition, has been submitted to Teaching English in the Two-Year College and awaits editorial response. Other submitted proposals remain awaiting decisions; none is listed as a publication.

Researching

Clarifying the relationships among English insecurity, linguistic legitimacy, shame, professionalism, private AI feedback, and the institutional conditions that make delegation feel safer than visible struggle. This work remains in development; I am currently refining its questions, claims, source relationships, and conceptual architecture.

Teaching

Teaching writing across Wayne State, Oakland Community College, Macomb Community College, and Henry Ford College. Current course development includes accessible research-writing worksheets and annotated examples for Winter 2027 ENG 3010, alongside guides, captioned lessons, and scaffolded research activities for Fall courses. These materials remain distinct from evidence of student learning or public release.

Building

Developing the Co-Authoring Lab and Scaffold Studio as private prototypes currently in testing. Both projects translate emerging research and established teaching practices into tools that preserve human judgment, meaningful choice, and accessible alternatives.

Professional Work

I recently completed a Marketing and Communications internship at NextEnergy. I am carrying forward what I learned about interviewing technical experts, identifying audience needs, translating specialized information, and developing public-facing communication while keeping company materials and internal deliverables private. I also work as a Rhetoric Writing Assessment Specialist with OnRamps at The University of Texas at Austin.

Public Scholarship

Writing public-facing essays about AI, writing pedagogy, accessibility, academic culture, graduate education, and the institutional expectations that shape how people understand their own competence. Only completed and published pieces appear in the Public Scholarship archive.

Creative Work

Revising Three Versions of the Fire and developing selected fiction, creative nonfiction, folklore, and children’s-literature projects.

November 2026 edition · Updated October 31, 2026

A dated snapshot

This page changes as projects, teaching, and professional work develop. It is a dated snapshot, not a productivity report. Accepted sessions remain separate from completed presentations, and private drafts remain separate from publications.