Professor TreaAndrea Russworm talks to Nat and Nina about dystopian games, utopian visions, and whether The Last of Us Two lives up to our queer communal dreams. Spoiler (the first of many): it does not.
With TreaAndrea Russworm
TreaAndrea M. Russworm is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Series Editor of Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture (Duke University Press). She is the author of Blackness is Burning: Civil Rights, Popular Culture, and the Problem of Recognition (Wayne State University Press, 2016) and a co-editor of Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games (Indiana University Press, 2017) and From Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry (University of Mississippi Press, 2016). Additionally, her work has been published in The Velvet Light Trap, Frontiers, and Black Camera. She is currently writing a fourth book on race, video games, and the politics of play.
