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The Queer Games Avant-Garde won the 2021 Stonewall Book Award
Very cool news! My book The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games, which came out last year from Duke University Press, has won the annual Israel...
View ArticleI have tenure!
I’m excited to announce that I have officially been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in UCI’s Department of Film and Media Studies! It’s such a wonderful and surreal feeling, and I...
View ArticleNew article: “Making Players Care: The Ambivalent Cultural Politics of Care...
Rainforest Scully-Blaker and I have a new article that just came out in the International Journal of Cultural Studies – “Making Players Care: The Ambivalent Cultural Politics of Care and Video Games.”...
View ArticleLive Streaming Culture now under contract with MIT Press
It’s official! The edited volume that Johanna Brewer, Amanda Cullen, and Christopher Persaud have been hard at work on over the last year – tentatively titled Live Streaming Culture – is now under...
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Check out the art for my new book, Sex Dolls at Sea
I am so totally in love with the original art that artist (and UCI PhD candidate) Kat Brewster created for the cover of my new book Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies. It’s...
View ArticleCFP for “Trans Game Studies” special issue of Communication, Culture &...
Whit Pow and I are excited to announce that the Call for Paper is now out for an upcoming special issue of Communication, Culture & Critique on “Trans Game Studies.” The issue will explore various...
View ArticleI am the new incoming co-editor-in-chief of JCMS!
Woohoo, it’s official! The board of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies has selected Liz Ellcessor (University of Virgina) and myself as the new incoming co-editors-in-chief of the Journal of...
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Sex Dolls at Sea – coming in June, now available for pre-order!
My new book, Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies, is coming out from MIT Press this June! It’s about the history of contemporary sex tech: interrogating that history, finding...
View ArticleSpecial issue now out! “Gender and Sexuality in Live Streaming”
I’m very excited to announce that the special issue of Television and New Media that Johanna Brewer and I co-edited is now published online! The special issue is all about different ways that gender...
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Sex Dolls at Sea comes out in 2 WEEKS!! – out June 14, pre-order now
My book Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies comes out in 2 WEEKS from MIT Press! It officially releases on June 14 but you can pre-order copies from Amazon. You can also follow...
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