Morgan Read-Davidson is an Assistant Professor at Chapman University, and the Director of Undergraduate Writing Programs, which include the BFA in Creative Writing, Rhetoric and Composition Studies, and Iluminación Writing Program. He is a 2005 Nicholl Fellow in Screenwriting with the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences, has written feature and short screenplays, a television pilot, short stories in fiction and nonfiction, and two novels of historical fiction. His primary areas of research and teaching are rhetoric and composition, community writing and writing programs, posthuman rhetorics, and ludonarratology, or the intersection of game play and narrative.