About me

I'm an associate teaching professor with the department of Popular Culture, School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH. I study temporal tourism, practical time travel, silent cinema, popular music of 1900-1940, American cultural history, animation before television, popular history, public history, nostalgia, and science fiction. I teach topics courses on Time Travel, Science Fiction, American Mythologies, and Global Animation, Popular Culture and Media, and Introduction to Popular Film. I am also the area chair for Popular History in American Culture for the Popular Culture Association National Conference and co-host of Silent Film Fridays: Where the Films are Silent but the Hosts are Not. We meet up on Friday nights at 7 pm Eastern over on Twitch. www.twitch.tv/atk42games Past episodes are free on Patreon. www.patreon.com/user?u=87354...

My publications to date include “From Monk to Superhero: Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars and the Transformation of the Jedi” in Dominic Nardi and Derek R. Sweet, (eds.), Star Wars TV: The Televisual Worlds of a Transmedia Franchise, “The usable past and the usable present in Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs” in Ray B. Browne and Ben Urish (eds.) Dynamics and Interconnections in Popular Culture, and “Coffee? Tea? Monster?: Movie Monsters in Classic and Contemporary Warner Bros. Animation” in Laura Davis and Cristine Santos (eds.), The Monster Imagined: Humanity’s Re-Creation of Monsters and Monstrosity. My first book, History and Temporal Tourism: Charting Individual Paths through the Past is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing.

I've taught history in the Colosseum, enjoyed lunch at Stonehenge, and have been photographed next to a blue police box outside a Tube station in London.