Games Institute Podcast

For our 50th episode, Toben (English Language and Literature) and Sid (Environment) interview OG GI member Dr. Emma Vossen about her academic life with games before becoming the GI’s Research Communication Officer. She discusses how she got into games as a kid, her time as EIC of First Person Scholar, and how much game studies has changed since she started her PhD in 2012. Links First Person Scholar Emma’s FPS essay about GG Katherine Cross’ essay about GG Emma’s dissertation Steve Wilcox Steve’s writing about middle-state publishing Historiographies of Game Studies: What it Has Been, What it Could Be - ***Not “Game Studies Historiographies” as Emma said*** Adrienne Shaw CBC Documentary Doppelganger by Naomi Klein Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom by Alan Moore Ducks by Kate Beaton It’s a Good Life if you Don’t Weaken by Seth Pentiment Night in the Woods The Excavation of Hobs Burrow Inscryption Tunic