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

Games Institute Podcast

EpisodeOct 6, 202351m

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

Games Institute Podcast

EpisodeOct 6, 202351m

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

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The Games Institute (GI) Podcast is currently on indefinite hiatus due to a lack of funding and resources to support the platform. The GI Podcast began as a way of delivering conversations about current research in games and immersive technologies by spotlighting emerging and established scholars. Hosted by GI graduate students and supported by GI administrative staff, the podcast offered a more personal look into the lives of researchers and chronicled their inspiration for pursuing research in games and immersive technologies. The podcast also covered a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: media studies, human-computer interaction, artificial...

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