dr. b. has been gaming for more than 30 years. It all started with a series of dashes moving up and down the screen and it has yet to end. It took 20 years to turn a guilty pleasure into research, but she got it done. Now she does rhetoric and game studies at Purdue and lures unsuspecting students down the rabbit hole. Her interest lays in critique of identity and identity formation in game studies. She is currently playing too many handheld games and still thinks Grim Fandango is the greatest game of all time.
Gamertag: saffista
PSN: Saffista
Steam: saffista
Wii: 1732 7615 1884 5753

Alex is a PhD student at Purdue working on the intersections between gender issues and the gaming industry and community.  Alex’s dream day consists of a bacon breakfast, a video game marathon, some flaming cheetos, and a nice glass of scotch. Alex enjoys a multitude of indie games, Civilization, WoW, COD, Portal, Fable III, and flash games.  She believes that games have a lot to teach us, and she is always searching for ways to expose how life is just one big game.

XboX: gamerlayne
Twitter: gamerlayne
WoW: Manoobie, Bbubbles
Steam: layneatpurdue
Hero Academy: alexlayne

 Nicole Marie is a Purdue alumni who loves everything video games. She aims to work for the video game industry as a Producer or Project Manager and hopes to bring an awareness of feminist issues to the industry with her. Growing up she spent hours just watching her brother play games and eventually became an avid gamer herself. She enjoys mostly mainstream gaming, but is always up for new game recommendations! She is also very passionate about her dog, Zelda and hopes to add a Link to the “family” very soon.

XboX: EightBitBitty
Twitter: 8BitBitty
PSN: NicZag

Gone, but not forgotten:

Sarah White is a geek and owns it. While wearing her Star Wars pajama pants, she plays through the Lego games on her PS2, scores Turkeys in Wii Bowling, and shoots outlaws in Red Dead Redemption. Her relationship with gaming was love at first Pong. Sarah believes that many video games have rich narratives worthy of analysis. In fact, she’d hold up Silent Hill 2 to Shakespeare’s Hamlet any day. When not playing games, she teaches Composition and Creative Writing at Purdue University North Central.

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