
Exploring Fandom Spaces.
For the last five+ years, I have been collecting interview, video, go-pro and screencast data on diverse and underserved youth’s cultural participation in out-of-school affinity spaces—discourse communities often housed in and across digital media spaces centered around youth-centric and multimodal “texts”—including co-generative studies and youth-led participatory action research projects in local Jersey City and New York City public school contexts.
Online affinity space ethnography of Daily Dracula posts in May 2022. Click for link to ETPC paper.
Afterschool D&D Youth Participatory Action Research Project. Click for practitioner article: "Chasing New Worlds: Stories of Roleplaying in Classroom Spaces"
Multi-year video ethnography of cosplayers’ interactions at NYCC. Click for TWC article tracing fans' disruptions of horror media stereotypes through livestreaming, cosplaying, and fanfiction.
Analysis of the personification of Death as a character across three webcomics (Cyanide & Happiness, Life & Death, and Mary Death). In the collection "Perspectives on Digital Comics: Theoretical, Critical and Pedagogical Essays." Click for Amazon link to collection.
Co-generative exploration of NCK teen tutors' fandom literacies. Click for "fan crack" video project.

Ethnographic exploration of Star vs. the Forces of Evil Tumblr posts (Fall 2017).