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It’s been a few years since I have contributed to In Media Res, but when “Queerness in Games” week (May 24-May 31, 2020) came up, I knew I had to do something. I decided to…
Given the current moment, the worldwide pandemic, the uncertain future of the halls of democracy in the US–colleges and universities, public spaces and the arts, even voting and the election, the turn to thinking about…
I am really excited to finally get my copy of Playing Nature: Ecology and Video Games (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) by Dr. Alenda Y. Chang (Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara). The cover…
I just got my copy of Dr. Tara Fickle’s The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities (NYU Press, 2019). And though I have only read the “Introduction” thus far, it is thoughtful, intriguing,…
I got a letter in the mail from ProQuest informing me that my dissertation Technoqueer: Re/Con/Figuring Posthuman Narratives earned royalties! Twenty-five dollars, in fact! Now I am wondering who, where, how many were ordered? Thank…
I have an upcoming presentation as part of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Spring Colloquium on January 24, 2018, 12-1:15 PM, in the WGSS conference room. I will be presenting my current research…
I am so proud and inspired by my amazing colleague and friend Timothy Welsh seeing his book Mixed Realism: Video Games and the Violence of Fiction in print from the University of Minnesota Press. I…
I realized that I spend quite bit of energy point and clicking, copying and pasting, liking and tweeting news stories, blog posts, and scholarship about video game studies and digital cultures (and fan cultures). It…