My work 

As of November 2022, here's what I'm up to!​

Ongoing Projects 

​The "Blorbo Survey" (homepage here) 
This project, in progress with co-author Sarah Breyfogle, is collecting fans' perspectives on platform-specific terminology and definitions of comfort characters. 
  • Currently collecting responses 
  • Aiming to publish in open access journal

"Platforms & Fans" special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures (call for papers on TWC)
This special issue seeks work that explores, in the broadest sense, how fans and fandom communities engage with platforms. We are accepting submissions until January 1, 2023.
Catching Chen Qing Ling (carrd) 
 This edited collection focuses on the popular Chinese web drama Chen Qing Ling (The Untamed), its contexts, and its audiences. This is a multi-disciplinary collection that considers the show's popularity, influences, and effects from a variety of cultural and critical viewpoints. 
  • Co-editing with Dr. Yue (Cathy) Wang, lecturer at Shanghai Normal University
  • Manuscript currently under contract with academic publisher

#CritRoleBib (Twitter) 
This is a collaboratively-run resource collection project seeking to collect the bibliographic information for all scholarship (and, ongoing, trade and media coverage) for the web series Critical Role. We invite submissions for this collaborative work!
  • See all scholarship presently accounted for here
  • Visit our associated website The Library of Exandria here

Other ongoing writing projects (besides dissertation) include: 
  • co-authored book chapter on racebent Tolkien fanworks
  • book chapter on paratexts and narrative confirmation(s) in Critical Role 

RECENT PROJECTS

Anime Conventions During & After Covid-19 (full dataset here)
This survey, which was launched in April 2021 and ran through September 2021, collected information from anime con-goers and fans. It asked how these groups experienced and considered changes in the anime convention scene during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in 2020-2021 before cons widely resumed in-person events. 
  • Conducted with Billy Tringali, law librarian at Babson College 
  • IRB exemption granted through the University of Utah, March 2021

The Tolkien Fanfiction Survey (Twitter)
This survey, which was launched in August 2020 and ran through March 2021, has collected self-reported data on the habits, beliefs, and preferences of Tolkien fans who participate in reading and/or writing fanfiction. This is the second survey in a longitudinal research project conducted to learn more about the practices of Tolkien fans in relation to Tolkien's books and Jackson's films.
  • Conducted with Dawn "Felagund" Walls-Thumma, independent scholar in Tolkien studies
  • IRB exemption granted through the University of Utah, August 2020