Luis Aguasvivas is a writer and researcher based in New York City. He has written about video games, game studies, and pop culture at large for numerous publications including PopMatters, Ars Technica, Aguas’ Points, and New York University’s Urban Democracy… Continue Reading
Welcome to the Fall 2024 special issue of First Person Scholar examining game paratexts! While the vast majority of game studies work examines games themselves, the paratexts that surround them are equally important for giving games their cultural meaning. We… Continue Reading
Miriam Scuderi is a student assistant researcher at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität of Mainz where they are obtaining a Master of Arts degree in American Studies. Their research focus is all over the place, ranging from media studies to queer… Continue Reading
Luke Hernandez is currently a Ph.D. Student in the Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication program at the University of Texas at Dallas. Luke’s research work lies at the intersection of Critical Game Studies, Latinx Studies, and Queer Theory. Luke works… Continue Reading
Joe is a multi-class Teacher/Game Designer/PhD Student from Canterbury in the UK. His scholarly and creative projects focus on tabletop role-playing games while his teaching is an eclectic mix of Biosciences, History and Classical Civilisation, though not normally to the… Continue Reading
Dr. Chris Hall is Assistant Professor of English at the University of the Ozarks, and the co-editor, with Steven Kielich, of a volume in progress on the Metal Gear Solid series. He has published previously on Metal Gear Solid as… Continue Reading
Chris Martin is an English PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo, whose dissertation research focuses on the QANON conspiracy community and the social media based disinformation networks that allow it flourish. When he’s not wading through the fever swamp… Continue Reading