Is It All Just Cultural Studies? One Scholar’s Journey into Media and Game Studies

Adrienne Shaw (she/her) is Associate Professor in Temple University’s Department of Media Studies and Production and a graduate faculty member in the Lew Klein College of Media and Communication. Her book Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2014) won the 2016 Outstanding Book Award from the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association. She is a founder of the LGBTQ Game Archive (www.lgbtqgamearchive.com) and co-curated Rainbow Arcade, an exhibit of 30 years of LGBTQ video game history at the Schwules Museum in Berlin, Germany (2018–2019). In addition to the exhibit catalog, she has written for and co-edited three anthologies. She became a Higher Education Video Game Alliance Fellow in 2018. She is a series editor for NYU Press’s Critical Cultural Communication series and on the editorial board of six academic journals.