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Bo Ruberg on Video Games to Play at the End of the World

05 Dec, 2021

Bo Ruberg on Video Games to Play at the End of the World

BCNM alum and Associate Professor at UC Irvine Bo Ruberg gave the First Forum 2021 Graduate Student Conference Keynote address on October 21, 2021 on Video Games to Play at the End of the World! This conference was hosted by the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Bo Ruberg's research explores gender and sexuality in digital media and digital cultures with a focus on queerness and video games. They are the author of The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games (2020, Duke University Press) and Video Games Have Always Been Queer (2019, New York University Press) and the co-editor of Queer Game Studies (2017, University of Minnesota Press).

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