University of California, Santa Barbara
Graduate Student, English
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Rita Raley
Bishnupriya Ghosh Alan Liu |
About
Amanda is the proud member of a generation that has grown up digital, a cyborgean technophile whose relationship with text has always been influenced by a computer of some kind. She recognized at an early age that her connections with digital characters (fictional or otherwise) were at least as strong as with those who inhabit more traditional media and has since devoted her personal and professional energies to exploring the communicative potentials of so-called "new media."
As a graduate student, Amanda focuses her work on video games and gaming culture. Her position in a literature department offers a grounding in narrative and cultural theory, while the UCSB English Department in particular affords her the flexibility to define "literature" in a number of ways. Her dissertation project investigates issues of difference at the multiple sites of meaning in video games and gamer culture: fan, professional, and academic discourse; hardware, software, and gamic processes; and "traditional" media representation practices.
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