Hello,
I'm Phill Alexander

Professor

Storyteller

Gamer Researcher Cultural Rhetorician Esports Director Author Cherokee Human

I am an assistant professor of Games and the co-director of Varsity Esports at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. I’m also the author of several books, an esports consultant, and a storyteller. My research focuses on identity, collaboration and cultural identity through an Indigenous theory lens. I’m also a teaching Swiss Army Knife. Tell me what you need and I’ll build it.

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Hi, my name is...

Phill "DrPhill" Alexander.

I'm a mixed-blood Cherokee scholar working at a university on the ancestral lands of the Miami. I'm a storyteller by nature and a teacher by trade. I'm curious to a fault and I listen carefully. I'm a colleague, a husband, and a still-grieving son. I chase a thing called tenure like my ancestors hunted deer.

I’m involved in all sorts of academic activity. You can read about that here.
When I’m not being a professor, I’m a writer, a gamer, a dog owner, a consumer of all manner of pop culture, a wrestling fan, a comic nerd, and in spite of being considered “washed” by some of students I’m still ahead of the trends enough to be what we used to call a “coolhunter.” I consult. I assist. I edit. I tweak. I design. If you want to have impact, I’m your guy. If you want to know how to actually be equitable and inclusive instead of just saying you are concerned with DEI, I’m your guy.
I do not suffer fools. I still fight the power. I’ll always tell you the truth even when I know it’s hard for you to hear it. I’m tenacious, like my mother. I’m made of smoke and rain.

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