Recent Talks, Workshops & Conferences
ADHD and research(er) development
April 25th, 2024
Nottingham Trent University
Workshop for PhD Researchers & Supervisors on study skills for the ADHD researcher.
Queering the Videogame Museum
June 29th 2023
UBISOFT London.
Pride Month Speaker, discussing the ways in which Queer theory can be used in museum spaces.
Curating from the Margins
June 21st 2023
University of Seville, Spain.
DIGRA 2023 Conference: Limits & Margins, Keynote speaker.
Diverse Avatars
August 9th 2022
University of Sheffield, School of Education.
Workshop on gender and racial diversity in avatar design.
Commodifying the Shippers’ Gaze: Hybrid Masculinity & BTS’ FESTA 2019
January 4-5th 2020
Kingston University, London, UK.
BTS: A Global Interdisciplinary Conference Project, speaker.
Selected Interviews
The Art of Play
Read this lovely write up & interview with UK creative magazine It’s Nice That around the ‘Art of Play’ exhibition I helped design for the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield. Full article here.
No Girls Allowed?
In 2018 I participated in a series of short interviews for Journalism student Bobby Futter, discussing the history of and current issues with women in gaming. Check out Bobby's great feature here.
Games & Kink
Check out this cover story for The Daily Dot by Ana Valens in which I was quoted discussing fandom, kinks and sexuality.
Selected Talks & Conferences
Nine Worlds
August 10th-12th 2018
London, UK.
"Mass Effect & Philosophy" “Game Studies in the UK”, "Representation in Dating Sims" and “Sexuality in Bioware"
EBAAS
April 4-7, 2018
King’s College, London UK.
“Bioshock: Infinite’s Columbia: Heaven in the Clouds”.
Sheffield Gender History Group
May 17th, 2017
The University of Sheffield, UK.
”Digital Damsels? The History of Women in Games”
Re-Imagining the Gothic Symposium
May 12, 2017
The University of Sheffield, UK.
“Witcher 3: Religious Belief and the Gothic Village”.
Queerness in Games Conference (QGCon)
April 2, 2017
University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California.
“Subverting the Heteronormative Jesus in Video Games”.
Videobrains
March, 2017
London, UK.
”Dating the Diverse Space Jesus”
Videobrains
November, 2016
London, UK.
”Midnight in the Virtual Garden of Good & Evil”
Play Me a Story Symposium
June 10, 2016
Lancaster University, UK.
“Biblical Narratives in Post-Modern Games”.
Re-Imagining the Gothic Symposium
May 6th 2016
The University of Sheffield, UK.
”Biblical Vampires: Salome in TV’s True Blood”
