Graduate Teaching Assistant
Educational Background
M.A., English from Marshall University (Expected 2016)
B.A., English from Marshall University (2014)
Areas of Specialization and Interest
Creative Writing (Fiction and Creative Nonfiction), Theory, New/Digital Media, Digital Narratives, Videogames and Games Studies, Film, Appalachian Culture
About the Instructor
Born and raised in the Tri-State along the Ohio River among the cities of Huntington, Ashland, and Ironton, Nathan is a child of pop culture. His research interests include the focus on the role of narrative and agency in videogames. He recently presented a paper at the Midwest Conference on Literature, Language, and Media titled, “The Function of Narrative: Story, Control, and Gameplay in Irrational Games’ BioShock Infinite” that analyzed elements of that game against similar elements in traditional texts. He was surprised and excited to find out later, someone had live-tweeted his reading. Fair warning, he will provide you with the link if you bring this up. Currently, Nathan teaches Freshman Composition with the desire to help students understand the roles that all texts play in their lives.
He currently lives in Huntington with his domestic partner, Jillian, and his daughter, Adelaide, in a small townhouse. Jillian insists that it isn’t an apartment and Nathan obliges, grudgingly. Happy to have a family and pursuing a master’s degree, Nathan spends what little free time he has attempting to wrangle the constantly shaping beast that is the content and culture on and of the internet to grasp and try to stay relevant as the years stack on like so many books in his too-read pile. See what I did there? Yes. Creative writing.