Hi, everyone. First Person Scholar is going on hiatus. What you’re reading right now is the final posting until we establish its future directions. FPS will remain available as an archive for everyone to access and use. The publication, which… Continue Reading
This issue of First Person Scholar is not a “Special Issue” in the everyday academic parlance, but it is a very special issue of FPS because it will be our last issue for some time. FPS is taking an indefinite… Continue Reading
Simon Dor is an Associate Professor at Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, teaching in the game development program in Montréal, Québec. He first played Pokémon games during the pandemic with his children Laurent and Thierry. You can find him on:… Continue Reading
From pixelated adventurer to cultural lightning rod: how has Lara Croft, once a simple video game character, become a focal point in discussions about feminism, representation, and now, colonialism? Lara Croft has long been central to debates about feminism, for… Continue Reading
Julie Veitch is a PhD student at the University of Waterloo whose research focuses on “detecting figures” and the construction of authority in modern Occult-Detective fiction. She is particularly interested in the way that form affects narrative content and how… Continue Reading
Andrew Kirby is a PhD candidate in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program at Queen’s University. His research focuses on the representation of urban environments in digital media and how these environments impact their human inhabitants. His research is… Continue Reading
Gurn Group is a video game enthusiast and philosophy student in Shanghai, China. David Kanaga’s 2017 game Oikospiel Book I is difficult to summarize, but the first moments of the game offer a glimpse of what it’s like to play.… Continue Reading