As part of my dedication to public scholarship, I have a YouTube channel where I provide videos on playthroughs of video games set in Egypt, as well as documentaries on ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian themes and art. With regard to ancient history, I strongly believe it is best to engage a wide audience not only informatively but also creatively. Now I'm on sabbatical, focusing on publishing articles, finishing my book, and making more YouTube videos. I have three cats, all formerly strays: Topaz, Ta-Miu (name means "the girl cat" in ancient Egyptian), and Mewatalli, King of the Cattites, the latter of which I adopted from Egypt!

Furthermore, I enjoy playing video games, especially city-builders. My favorite game is Cyan Inc.'s Riven: the Sequel to Myst (1997) that I played for the first time in 1998, and I've been obsessed with the Myst series ever since, and even gave an academic conference paper on it! Therefore, I was really excited when I had the opportunity to write, design, and illustrate the solution guide for Cyan Inc.'s Obduction (2016) (preview here). Recently, I had the privilege of consulting on Pharaoh: a New Era (2023), which is a remake of my favorite game about ancient Egypt, Pharaoh (1999).

One of my major hobbies, since I was 7 years old, is writing fiction, which I've begun sharing on Archive of Our Own. I've been writing a story based on Irish legends and early literature, another is set in the eastern Mediterranean in ca. 1600 BCE, and a third is, to my surprise, a novel-length fanfiction for one of my favorite TV shows, Our Flag Means Death. This latter obsession has also inspired an unusual avenue of public scholarship: I draw the main characters as ancient Egyptians and accompany them with essays or social media threads that teach people about ancient Egypt, and it has been unexpectedly successful!

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Links to my socials, including AO3, are found on the Contact & Donate page.