Bonnie Ruberg | |
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Awards | Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Stonewall Book Award (2021) SCMS Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award (2022) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Bard College University of California Berkeley |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of California Irvine |
Main interests | video games, Queer theory, Cultural Studies |
Notable works | Video Games Have Always Been Queer (2019) The Queer Games Avant-Garde (2020) Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies (2022) |
Bonnie Ruberg (born 1985) is an American game studies scholar and professor at the University of California, Irvine in the department of Film and Media Studies.[1] They are known for their work on queer theory and video games. They are the author of Video Games Have Always Been Queer, The Queer Games Avant-Garde, and Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies, as well as the editor of Queer Game Studies. From 2023 to 2027, they are the co-editor-in-chief, with Liz Elcessor, of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. They are also one of the co-founders of the Queerness in Games Conference.