I am editing a collection of essays for McFarland on games criticism. In particular, the project will be collecting games criticism articles that reflect on their methodological choices with the aim of showing how the rubber meets the road, so to speak, for the debate over defining a game.
Starting this August, I will be an assistant professor and Director of Composition in the English Department at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
If your watching this blog like a hawk, you'll notice there's a substantial gap. I hadn't been updating this site. That's changed.
Lindsey Joyce, Mark Filipowich, Stephanie Jennings, Jason Coley, and I will be presenting a panel on social capital in games as texts at the Canadian Game Studies Association in Ottawa, Ontario, in June.
Zoya Street, Nicholas Hanford, Laquana Cooke, Joshua Comer, and Eric Walsh will also be there presenting in a separate panel.
I'm excited for the collection of awesome people who'll be at CGSA with us!
I represented the Journal of Games Criticism at Critical Proximity, a conference about games criticism on March 16, 2014. You can see the slides and my written presentation at http://critical-proximity.com/2014/03/16/games-writing-and-academic-institutional-authority/. You can watch my presentation on the Twitch recording here.