Phillip Michael Alexander is Assistant Professor of Games in the Armstrong Institute of Interactive Media Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. A native of the Midwest and a mixed-blood Cherokee, Alexander's work has appeared in Kairos, Computers & Composition, and in various edited collections including Play/Write: Digital Rhetoric, Writing and Games and World of Warcraft and Philosophy. Alexander is the co-director of the Miami University Varsity Esports Program, the first Division One Varsity Esports Program in the world. Alexander is also partnered with Twitch.TV to offer courses on video game streaming and the history and culture of Esports.