Austin Anderson

Austin Anderson Ph.D is a Provostial Fellow at Stanford University and co-founder of the Stanford Critical Game Studies Lab. He studies how games are enmeshed with race, gender, identity, and class while also examining the liberatory potentials of gameworlds. His first book project, Racial Recursivity: A Methodology for Critical Race Game Studies, creates a formalist ludic-textual framework for reading videogames as racial-cultural projects by exploring the role of repetition in racial practices and games. He has published in the fields of game studies, African American literary studies, and comic studies, and his work has appeared in the Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, Electronic Book Review, The Comparatist, Popular Culture Review, and other outlets. He currently serves on the Multiplay Editorial Board and the SCMS Precarious Labor Committee.