Author Archives: Bonnie

I am so totally in love with the original art that artist (and UCI PhD candidate) Kat Brewster created for the cover of my new book Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies. It’s done in the style … Continue reading →

It’s official! The edited volume that Johanna Brewer, Amanda Cullen, and Christopher Persaud have been hard at work on over the last year – tentatively titled Live Streaming Culture – is now under contract with MIT Press. The volume includes … Continue reading →

Rainforest Scully-Blaker and I have a new article that just came out in the International Journal of Cultural Studies – “Making Players Care: The Ambivalent Cultural Politics of Care and Video Games.” It’s about the messy relationship between care and … Continue reading →

I’m excited to announce that I have officially been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in UCI’s Department of Film and Media Studies! It’s such a wonderful and surreal feeling, and I absolutely could not have gotten here without my … Continue reading →

Very cool news! My book The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games, which came out last year from Duke University Press, has won the annual Israel Fishman Award for an outstanding work … Continue reading →

Dan Lark and I have a new article that just came out from Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. It’s called “Live Streaming from the Bedroom: Performing Intimacy through Domestic Space on Twitch” and it’s about … Continue reading →

Teaching this spring quarter (with the rapid transition to online learning) has been tricky all around. For me, it’s meant looking for online resources that I might not have used for an in-person class, like “guest lectures” – recorded videos … Continue reading →

My new book, The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games, is out now! You can order it through Duke University Press or Amazon. It’s a really great collection of interviews with queer … Continue reading →

I’m so, so excited to announce that, as of the start of this calendar year, I’m in a new position. I’m now an assistant professor in the UC Irvine’s Department of Film and Media Studies, which is part of the … Continue reading →

It’s been nearly a year and a half in the making, but it’s now officially published: the Oxford Bibliography of Feminist and Queer Game Studies. This is a massive — and hopefully massively useful! — resource, with overviews in fifteen … Continue reading →