

Greetings,
This site is dedicated to the myriad experiences of Literary and Creative Culture. To explore the crossroads of literature, folklore, and virtual communities. To step into liminal space.
My purpose is twofold:
1) To share my research on the radiant interactions between literature, folklore, and various media.
2) To learn from you. To encounter your traditions. Your stories. Your passions. Your questions. Those burning questions which makes life worth living – filling our days with meaning.
This is a celebration of human and digital culture and all that makes us strange and mysterious. We are not binary critters scrambling for this or that but expressions of everything all at once.
Game Writer, Narrative Designer & Instructional Designer
Game Writer & Narrative Designer: Engage with people, cultures, traditions and landscapes. We’ll explore everything from the literary traditions to food culture. Gaming communities, rites of passage, beliefs – our scope is wide and inclusive.
Instructional Designer: practicing theory-based, current strategies to scaffold your learning and teaching demands.

Ongoing Research at The University of Missouri
On Sense and Sensibility: Performance, Ritual, Uncanny Kami, and Emergent Modes of Belief in Japan
As a Gilman scholar, I am presently analyzing festivals and phenomenonology in Japanese culture – in particular the relationship between the senses and Japanese dance. These traditions express a uniquely Japanese identity and yet reveal much about the human experience. Dancing to evoke the deities ignites an inclusive worldview. One that marries disparate ontologies with remarkable endurance. It goes without saying that this global hunger for Japanese content reveals an urgent need for new and meaningful sources of engagement on a worldwide scale. As people from all backgrounds seek cosmological entertainment through various media, virtual and analogue. I am particularly interested in meeting of various ontologies. How they interact: inform & reform one another. From the Buddhist elements containes within Zelda’s Breath of the Wild, to Kami conjuring in Pokémon.
Let’s be real, it’s not like I wouldn’t be doing this in my free time anyway!





Critically Curious
Ask Questions
Be Patient
Don’t Assume
And, do I have to say it? Don’t Drink and Drive.
-Cheers
PRESENTLY…

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About Me
I am a student at the University of Missouri researching East Asian Languages and Literature.

Research
My nose is presently in the Books… so dusty
