Carly Kocurek / Illinois Institute of Technology

Carly A. Kocurek is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and Media Studies at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Her research focuses on the culture and history of video gaming. Her book, a cultural history of the video game arcade in the United States, is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press. Previous work has appeared in Game Studies, The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds, Flow, In Media Res, and The New Everyday and the anthologiesBefore the Crash: An Anthology of Early Video Game History (Wayne State University Press, 2012), Gaming Globally: Production, Play, and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), andComputer Games and Technical Communication: Critical Methods and Applications at the Intersection (Ashgate, 2013).