ABOUT ME
I'm Alex: avid gamer, hobby programmer, Master Builder, and all-around background NPC. In my time off-script, I also attend graduate school and study epic poetry. They say that I even write poetry and games of my own, but those rumors have yet to be substantiated.
THE TIMES
WIP
THINGS I'M DOING
- Thesis: “‘Instruct me’: Education, performance, and civic responsibility in Paradise Lost” (working title)
- Term paper: “‘Am I such indeed?’: Reconciling Christ-like and Epic Heroism in Aurora Leigh” (working title)
THINGS I'VE DONE
- WIP
THINGS I'M READING
- This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom, Martin Hägglund
- Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton, David Quint
- How to Talk About Videogames, Ian Bogost
- Biological Chronicle, compiled by Cross-Wired Geeks
THINGS YOU SHOULD READ
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
- Paradise Lost, John Milton
- “on the art of how to be making your players give a fuck”, Doc Burford