Steele been an active part of the Living Games Conference since its inauguration in 2014 as a scholar and mediamaker. Her scholarly presentations have explored interactive narrative media in conjunction with gender, political economy, and critical code studies (CCS). Her paper The Reality Code: Interpreting Aggregate Larp Rules as Code that Runs on Humans was printed by the International Journal of Roleplaying (IJRP) in 2016.
Steele has also presented scholarship on interactive narrative media at the annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA), the Lewis & Clark College Gender Studies Symposium, the inaugural Social Studies of Live Action Role Play at the European University of St. Petersburg, and the Role-Play and Simulation in Education Conference at Northeastern University and the University of Texas.
