About

My name is Luke Thominet. I work as a Teaching Assistant at Wayne State University where I am pursuing a PhD in Composition and Rhetoric. My general research interests are the connections between composition pedagogy (with a focus on technical or business communications) and digital media. I received my MFA from Northern Michigan University in Fiction Writing.

I have been a gamer for all my life, though I have significantly less time for the pursuit now (due to the hectic life of a graduate student). My first console was the Super Nintendo. In my family, we were a little later to adopt the gaming systems in part due to monetary constraints and in part due to the fact that my mother wanted us out of the house and being active. That never stopped my brother and me. From an early age, we were sitting at neighbors' houses or loading large floppy disks into our ancient computer and yelling out "Sarge!" as the screen displayed pixelated tanks. I have few fonder memories than those games.

I continued to game throughout high school and also became involved in the traditional geek pastimes of role playing games (and even LARPing). We played the games casually and used our sessions primarily as a means of social interaction. This didn't limit the ways in which role playing helped us change our identities and try out new ways of being. It taught us how to become bosses or how to create complex plans in the background. It taught us math (so many numbers). I don't know that I'd call it the ideal classroom, but I do feel that I owe something of the person I am today to those games (though I haven't played them in nearly a decade).