[…]spaces and online systems for massively collaborative play. She is a PhD candidate in performance studies at the University of California at Berkeley, where she is also a member of the Alpha Lab for Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. She teaches game design (San Francisco Art Institute) and contemporary games culture (UC Berkeley), with an emphasis on how these two fields intersect with live performance, social networks, and public policy. Jane McGonigal is an academic games researcher and pervasive game designer. She specializes in multiplayer games for public spaces and online systems for massively collaborative play. She is a PhD […]
Elyce Rae Helford is professor of English and director of Women’s Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. Her research and teaching have to do with representations of gender, race, and feminism in contemporary literature, television, and film. Elyce Rae Helford is professor of English and director of Women’s Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. Her research and teaching have to do with representations of gender, race, and feminism in contemporary literature, television, and […]
[…]. His publications revolve around the fields of American literature, poststructuralism, media studies, and literature and science. Hanjo Berressem teaches American Literature and culture at the University of Cologne. He is the author of Pynchon’s Poetics: Interfacing Theory and Text and Lines of Desire: Reading Gombrowicz’s Fiction with Lacan . His publications revolve around the fields of American literature, poststructuralism, media studies, and literature and […]
Karim A. Remtulla is a doctoral student at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the impact of the virtual, multimodal, and framgented on adult learning and identity. Karim A. Remtulla is a doctoral student at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the impact of the virtual, multimodal, and framgented on adult learning and […]
[…]Corrupted Pilgrim’s Guide (U Delaware P, 2011) and William Gaddis, “The Last of Something”: Critical Essays (McFarland, 2010). Christopher Leise is assistant professor of English at Whitman College. He is most recently the co-editor of Pynchon’s Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim’s Guide (U Delaware P, 2011) and William Gaddis, “The Last of Something”: Critical Essays (McFarland, […]
Ara Wilson is an anthropologist who has taught transnational feminist studies at the Ohio State University since 1997. A former managing editor of Socialist Review, she is the author of The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the World City (California 2004). Ara Wilson is an anthropologist who has taught transnational feminist studies at the Ohio State University since 1997. A former managing editor of Socialist Review, she is the author of The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the World City (California […]
[…]and Canadian literary histories. He is editor-in-chief of the Review of International American Studies. Michael Boyden is a visiting scholar at the Harvard University English Department. He received his PhD in April 2006 from the University of Leuven with a dissertation entitled “Predicting the Past: The Functions of American Literary History.” His current research focuses on issues of language and multilingualism in American and Canadian literary histories. He is editor-in-chief of the Review of International American […]
[…]The Memoir of 1603 and the Diary of 1616-1619 by Anne Clifford (Broadview, 2006). She is presently working on a book called Visual Rhetoric and 17th-Century English Print Culture. Katherine Acheson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo. Her research areas are seventeenth-century English literature and culture, and the circulation of scholarly knowledge in multimedia forms. Her most recent publication is an edition of The Memoir of 1603 and the Diary of 1616-1619 by Anne Clifford (Broadview, 2006). She is presently working on a book called Visual Rhetoric and 17th-Century English Print […]
[…]the Joint University of Denver-Iliff School of Theology PhD Program in Religious and Theological Studies. Francis F. Seeburger is the author of numerous articles on contemporary continental European philosophy and the author of three books, including one on the philosophy of addiction Addiction and Responsibility: An Inquiry into the Addictive Mind (Crossroads Press, 1995). He is currently chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Denver, and Director of the Joint University of Denver-Iliff School of Theology PhD Program in Religious and Theological […]
[…]the author of TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, as well as a short critical volume on Led Zeppelin IV. Davis contributes to scores of magazines, and his essays have been included in over a dozen books. He won a Maggie award for his San Francisco Magazine profile of the Internet entrepreneur and UFO contactee Joe Firmage, while The New Yorker has recognized his expertise in the works of the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Erik Davis is a San Francisco-based writer, culture critic, and independent scholar. He is the author of TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, […]