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Feminist Lecture Series - Aaron Trammell - Gender, Race, and Geek Culture

  • Sonoma State University 1801 E Cotati Ave Rohnert Park, CA, 94928 United States (map)

For the Zoom link, contact feinman@sonoma.edu

Sponsored by the Womens and Gender Studies Department

Assistant Professor of Informatics and Core Faculty in Visual Studies at UC Irvine. Trammell writes about how Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, and board games inform the lived experiences of their players. Specifically, he is interested in how these games further values of white privilege and hegemonic masculinity in geek culture. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Analog Game Studies and the Multimedia editor of Sounding Out! For more information, contact mullera@sonoma.edu.