His PhD work at the University of Florida’s Department of English focused on digital game studies, writing studies, media studies, and ecocriticism with forthcoming and published essays appearing in Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment and Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism and chapters appearing in Computer Games and Technical Communication, Doing Visual Studies: One Image, Multiple Methodologies, and Game Criticism. His dissertation explores the creative dimensions of digital game play.