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Brendan is a member of the English Department faculty at Columbia College Chicago. He teaches Composition and New Media classes at Columbia, as well as a course in Game Culture for the Interactive Arts and Media department. Brendan earned his PhD in English from the University of Florida in 2004, where he studied Film and Media Studies as well as Rhetoric and Composition. His research interests include: Rhetoric and Composition theory, particularly work in the sub-field of Computers & Writing; New Media studies; Grammatology (the study of the history of writing); Ludology, Film, and Media Studies.
Holding a M.A. for The Surrey Institute of Art & Design (presently known as University College for the Creative Arts), Chico is a designer and researcher. His MA final project was featured at the Serious Games London Showcase, and he has recently presented a paper at the 2nd Annual Conference University of Florida Game Design Conference. Chico lives and works in Brazil.
Jeff Howard received his BA from the University of Tulsa (2000) and his MA (2002) and PhD (2007) from the University of Texas at Austin, all in English. His first book, Quests: Design, Theory, and History in Games and Narratives was published in February 2008 by A.K. Peters. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Texas, Austin. He studies literature and New Media and is working on creative and scholarly projects related to multiverses. Jeff can be contacted at jeffhoward7 at sign gmail.com
Tanner Higgin is a graduate student at the University of California, Riverside. He is interested in theories of race, gender, and power in relation to digital media and video games. His work has appeared in The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto, In Media Res, and forthcoming in Games and Culture.
Zach is an Assistant Professor at the University of Mary Washington where he teaches classes in New Media. His dissertation is The Videogame Text: Typography and Textuality, and his Master's Thesis is a structural take on the role videogame music plays in the experience of gameplay. Zach is coeditor, with Laurie N. Taylor of Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Videogames. He has published in Game Studies, Refractory, FlowTV, Work and Days and is the webmaster for this site.
Amanda Phillips is a graduate student in the English department at UC Santa Barbara, working mainly under Professors Rita Raley and Alan Liu. Her current interests in gaming are too diverse to name, but she has done academic work on games with regard to narrative theory, cyborgs, religion, music, and the female hero. Currently, Amanda is serving as a research assistant for UCSB's Second Life space, UCSB Lane, working to improve the space for academic and community purposes. Amanda loves the Metroid and Ace Attorney series, and named her new computer GLaDOS in November.
Mat Tschirgi has a BFA in Game Design & Interactivity from the Savannah College of Art & Design. His articles have appeared in Armchair Arcade and Gameology. He also produces two podcasts, The Super Koopa Troopa Show and Played to Death. His current research includes a book-length project on the history of Graphical Adventures Games, to be co-written with Gameology contributor Matt Barton.
Sean Fenty got his PhD from the University of Florida in 2008. He has been working at the University of Louisville since the fall of 2007. In the Spring of 2009, he became the Dual Credit Coordinator for English Composition classes.
Chris Ritter is a third-year Ph.D. student at Washington State University. He approaches games from the discipline of rhetoric, which, like game studies, has no clear home. (His hat hangs in the English department.) Right now, he's obsessed by MMORPGs, which really means WoW (NE hunter and Human priest on Baelgun, IYI).
Laurie N. Taylor, PhD, researches video games and digital media at the University of Florida and has published articles in Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Game Research, Media/Culture, Computers and Composition Online, Reconstruction and Works & Days, and others. More information on current research is available on www.laurientaylor.org and her digital library blog.
Cathlena Martin, a PhD candidate at the University of Florida, researches and teaches children's culture through literature, comics, film and new media. Her dissertation work focuses on the changing nature of children's literature and culture in a digital age.
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