My Chapter on “Blindness in Science Fiction” is Now Out in Sharon Packer’s Lenses on Blindness Collection

I’m very happy to announce that Dr. Sharon Packer’s edited collection Lenses on Blindness: Essays on Vision Loss in Media, Culture, Religion and Experience is now out from McFarland! It includes a chapter that I wrote back in Summer 2020 titled, “Blindness in Science Fiction: From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Star Trek’s La Forge–And Much …

7th Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium on the Archive and SF, Dec. 6, 2022

The Seventh Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium on the Archive and SF was held on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022 as a Zoom Webinar. You can read the full program here. I started organizing these symposia with my colleagues at City Tech after we received the original 160 box donation that became the City Tech …

LEGO Display Stand MOC for 75325 The Mandalorian’s N-1 Starfighter

Following the destruction of the Mandoralorian’s Razorcrest, one of the happy surprises in The Book of Boba Fett was Mando’s new ship–a heavily modified Naboo N-1 Starfighter featured in The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. So, when the LEGO version of Mando’s new ride debuted as set 75325, I picked it up at …

Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man vs Thanos LEGO MOC

While I have enjoyed reading Marvel comics for as long as I can remember, I have loved the Marvel Cinematic Universe films that brought together Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man to ultimately battle (two temporal versions) of Thanos with the gravitas and realism of live-action, moving pictures. This is probably because my deep love …

Brief Technical Communication Program Administration Reading List

The City Tech English Department asked me to step up as Director of the B.S. in Professional and Technical Writing Program at the start of Spring 2021. The following list of books, anthologies, and articles have been helpful to me as I work to better understand program administration, development, assessment, and internships. Bridgeford, Tracy, Karla …