2025: The Close Readings Issue:

Pokémon: Let’s Go, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy VII, Until Dawn, and Oikospiel Book I

Lead Editor: Aleksander Franiczek Managing Editor: Emma Vossen Introduction Co-authored by: Aleksander Franiczek and Emma Vossen This issue of First Person Scholar is not a “Special Issue” in the everyday academic parlance, but it is a very special issue of… Continue Reading

Lara Crofts’s Colonialist Shadow:

Colonialism and White Saviorism in Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Anoushka Lad completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, where she studied critical gender and race theory in relation to digital media. This paper, written during that time, builds on her interest in how identity, power, and technology… Continue Reading