COURSES &
PRESENTATIONS
Educational Lectures, Engagements, & Exhibits
My career incorporates talks at events spanning a wide variety of contexts. These talks range from educational lectures in college and church classrooms with 10-30 attendees to conference presentations with similar numbers of attendees. These talks also include assisting a student to present her own research at an educational symposium. Further examples include regular engagements with my fellow cohort, and representing the students in the graduate program in informal, faculty, and interdepartmental meetings. Also, I am often invited to moderate and host entirely non-academic events in the local community. This list details this wide range of activity, and is broken down by type of event/audience, as follows:
1.1 Undergraduate Courses Taught
Undergraduate Courses Taught
Semester
Spring 2024
Fall 2023
Fall 2023
Summer 2023
Spring 2023
Spring 2023
Fall 2022
Spring 2022
Fall 2021
Spring 2021
Fall 2020
Course Name
Religion, Media, & Pop-Culture
Theological Views of the Person
Introduction to Ethical Reasoning
Global & Cultural Perspectives
Religion, Media, & Pop-Culture
Introduction to Ethical Reasoning
Theological Ethics
Religion, Media, & Pop-Culture
Honors EQ: Will We Find Faith in Media?
Biblical & Historical Perspectives
Global & Cultural Perspectives
Course Number
THEO/IRST 216-01
THEO 142W-01
BRDG 105T-09
THEO 143-01
THEO/IRST 216-01
BRDG 105T-06
THEO 152-02
THEO 216-02
HONR 154-01
UCOR 142-02
UCOR 143-02
Academic Community
Faculty Advisor: Duquesne University Honors Symposium presentation, April 20, 2022
Title: "The Hero's Journey: Choral Music Edition" by Danna Villarey, https://symposium.foragerone.com/undergraduate-research-scholarship-symposium-2022/presentations/42285
Theological Graduate Organization President (Duquesne University):
Acting alongside a team of several other doctoral students, I served as the official spokesperson and representative of the TGO from 2019-2022, being responsible for presenting the issues and concerns of the TGO—as noted in the meeting minutes—to the Chair and Faculty of the Duquesne Theology Department, and to the University at large as needed. We organized events such as:
1) “Let’s Talk About Comp Exams,” October 11 & 14 2021
Organized and hosted a department-wide Zoom discussion forum to talk through the process and preparations for comprehensive exams.
2) “Let’s Talk About Dissertation Writing, ”October 18 & 21, 2021
Organized and hosted a department-wide Zoom discussion forum to share insights and advice for graduate students in the process of writing and defending dissertations.
3) “Let’s Talk About Teaching Experience,” October 25 & 28
Organized and hosted the department-wide Zoom discussion forum to share our positive and negative teaching experiences as young undergraduate educators.
Conference Presentations
I presented papers exploring the interplay of video games and theology at various regional PCA/ACA Conferences.
“Immortal X-Men: The Mutant Metaphor of Immortality”
PCA/ACA Conference 2024, Chicago, IL • March 28, 2024
“‘And Move’: Holding Other Religions Lightly as ‘Conspirators’”
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Annual Conference, Irving, TX • March 2, 2024
“RPG-ing the Interreligious Encounter”
Southwest PCA/ACA 45th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM • February 22, 2024
"'For We Too Are His Offspring': Pushing the Buttons With Differing Others in Interreligious Relationality”
Mid-Atlantic PCA/ACA 2023, Philadelphia, PA • November 9, 2023
"And Have Our Being": Breathing With Other Religions as "Con" Artists
PCA/ACA Conference 2023 • April 5, 2023
Somewhere in Between: Outplaying Sin and Death in the Law of the Spirit
SWPACA 2023 44th Annual Conference • February 25, 2023
The Space Between the Single-Winged Angels: Xenogears Frames the Interreligious Encounter
MAPACA 2022 Annual Conference • November 10, 2022
Fighting Into Friendship: Goku Embodies the Interreligious Encounter
Midwest PCA/ACA • October 14, 2022
Contestant Theology: Toward a Play Theology of Religions
PCA/ACA Conference 2022 • April 15, 2022
Super Apocalypto 64: Inhabiting Revelation as a Video Game Made of Sacred Words
Far West Popular and American Culture Associations' 34th Annual Conference • March 5, 2022
“Is That Even Your Own Idea?” A Biblio-Theological Consideration of The S3 Plan Codec Conversation in Metal Gear Solid 2
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2021 Annual Conference
Leaving the World the Way It Is: A Biblio-Theological Consideration of the Ethics of The Boss's Vision in the Metal Gear Solid Series
Midwest PCA/ACA • October 8, 2021
Can Retrogaming Be a Spiritual Experience? Toward a Retrogame Theology!
The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association in the South • October 1, 2021
Digital Theophany: Enoch as Adaptable Player and Imprecise Playground
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association 42nd Annual Conference • February 23, 2021
Foucault Fantasy VI: A Role Playground for Postcolonial Thought
Far West Popular and American Culture Associations' 33rd Annual Conference • February 20, 2021
Video Gaming Enoch: Playing Out a Theophanic Narrative
Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Popular Culture Association • October 2, 2020
Ethitainment: Pop-Culture Confronts the Moral Oddness in John Rawls's Theory of Justice
Far West Popular and American Culture Associations' 32nd Annual Conference • February 22, 2020
Final FantaSi' VII: Role-Playing the Eco-Ethics of Laudato Si'
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2019 Annual Conference • November 7, 2019
Extracurricular Community Events
I am also energetically involved with community events beyond the classroom, particularly those which bring local peoples together in diverse forums of conversation and engagement.
Master of Ceremonies: TheOne Music Fest 2023 Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration at Bethany Presbyterian Church of Bridgeville, January 16, 2023
Master of Ceremonies: TheOne Music Fest 2022 Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration at Bridgeville Corpus Christi Parish (Holy Child Church), June 20, 2022
Master of Ceremonies: TheOne Music Fest 2021 Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration (Online), January 18, 2021
Moderator: TheOne MusicFest “Building Bridges” Discussion Series, January 9, 2021
Master of Ceremonies: TheOne Music Fest 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration at Bridgeville United Methodist Church, January 20, 2020
Master of Ceremonies: TheOne Music Fest 2019 Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration at Solid Rock Revival Church Bridgeville, January 21, 2019
Master of Ceremonies: Gospeltality 2017 Music Concert at Fairview Park, June 22, 2017
Church Community
I bring nearly two decades of experience in teaching biblical and ethical topics in church contexts. 2023 will mark eighteen years of leading Sunday School lessons for the youth and adults, teaching Bible Studies, and creating original Vacation Bible School programs at First Baptist Church of Bridgeville, PA. Links to their brief summaries are collected on the "iLights! Sunday School Recaps" YouTube page.
Vacation Bible School Curricula
2018 "Pursuit of the Fruit: Finding the Fruit of the Spirit!"
2017 "Super Biblio World: Learning the 66 Books of the Bible."
2016 "The 10 Commandathlon!"
2015 “Legends of the Holy Temple.”
2014 “The Roman Road to Salvation.”
2013 “Ways to Praise: Learning the 7 Ways to Praise the Lord!”
2012 “W.O.W. Wonders of the World: Based on Ten Spiritual Disciplines of Jesus Christ!”
2011 “The Five Crowns: Christ Rewards Obedience with Never-Ending Splendor.”
2010 “The AmazinG.R.A.C.E.: God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense.”
2009 “Living Great in the Hall of Faith.”
2008 “Heroes in History Show He Rose in His Story.”
2007 “The Armor of God.”
2006 "The Lord's Prayer."