Configurations

Başak Ağın is an associate professor of English Literature at TED University, Ankara, Türkiye. She is the author of Posthümanizm: Kavram, Kuram, Bilim-Kurgu [Posthumanism: Concept, Theory, Science Fiction] (2020, Siyasal), co-editor of Posthuman Pathogenesis: Contagion in Literature, Media, and Arts (2022, Routledge), and the translation editor of Ekofobi Hipotezi (2021, Cappadocia U. Press), which is the Turkish translation of Simon C. Estok’s The Ecophobia Hypothesis. Her scholarly articles appeared in such journals as Ecozon@, CLCWeb, Neohelicon, Translation Review, and EJES. Currently, she is translating Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things.

Ashlee Bird is a Native American (Western Abenaki) game designer and PhD in Native American studies. She is an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her work interweaves Native American studies, media studies, and game studies to address representations of Native American characters in video games and Native American creators pushing back with decolonial design. Beyond her academic writing, she has created two video games, publicly exhibited seven times in group and solo exhibitions, and curated a museum show.

Stephanie Boluk plays, makes, and writes about games at the University of California, Davis. They are a coauthor of Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames with Patrick LeMieux, and a cast member of Every Game in This City, a podcast on the Idle Thumbs Network about playing well together.

Anne Brubaker is a senior lecturer in the writing program at Wellesley College, where she teaches on modern American literature, gender, science and technology studies, and science fiction. She earned her PhD in English in 2011 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research on the intersections among literary criticism, modern American writing, and mathematics has appeared in American Quarterly, New Literary History, Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, and The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics.

Alenda Y. Chang is an associate professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Chang’s work has appeared in numerous journals, among them Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Qui Parle, electronic book review, Feminist Media Histories, and Resilience. Her first book, Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games, develops environmentally informed frameworks for understanding and designing digital games. At UCSB, Chang co-directs Wireframe, a studio promoting collaborative theoretical and creative media practice with investments in global social and environmental justice. She is also a founding co-editor of the UC Press open-access journal, Media+Environment.

Edmond Y. Chang is an associate professor of English at Ohio University. His areas of research include technoculture, race, gender, and sexuality, queer game studies, popular culture, and 20th/21st century American literature. Recent publications include “Imagining Asian American (Environmental) Games” in AMSJ; “Why Are the Digital Humanities So Straight?” in Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities, and “Queergaming” in Queer Game Studies. He is the creator of Tellings, a high fantasy tabletop role-playing game, and Archaea, a live-action role-playing game. He is also an assistant editor for Analog Game Studies and a contributing editor for Gamers with Glasses.

Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal is the Ruth and Paul Idzik Collegiate Chair in Digital Scholarship and assistant professor of English and Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. His research is situated at the crossroads of media theory, STS, and literary criticism. His book project, Rendering: A Political Anatomy of Computation, charts a history and theory of the computer as an ideology machine. He is also a co-author (with Théo Lepage-Richer and Lucy Suchman) of Neural Networks (U. Minnesota Press and Meson Press), and his award-winning writing can be found in Critical Inquiry, Configurations, American Literature, and Design Issues.

Simon C. Estok is a full professor and senior research fellow at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea’s first and oldest university. He is editor of the journal Neohelicon and is an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. His award-winning Ecocriticism and Shakespeare: Reading Ecophobia appeared in 2011 (reprinted 2014), and his much anticipated The Ecophobia Hypothesis (Routledge, 2018; reprinted with errata as paperback in 2020) has been...