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.