Games Institute Podcast

046: Home-Away-Home with Dr. Derritt Mason

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Synopsis

This month we are joined by Dr. Derritt Mason, who is a associate professor in English at the University of Calgary. Follow along as Dr. Mason discucsses topics surrounding their love of video games, queer representation in games, and coming of age stories in gaming. Dr. Mason additonal dives into how adolescent roles are displayed in horror games, the unique aspects of "bildungsroman" in gaming, and his book “Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture”.    Email: derritt.mason@ucalgary.ca   Website: https://derrittmason.com/   Book: Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture   University Profile: https://english.ucalgary.ca/profiles/derritt-m