Gender, Race, and Geek Culture

Aaron Trammell

Stevenson 101
8:30 AM

Assistant Professor of Informatics and Core Faculty in Visual Studies at UC Irvine. Trammell writes about how Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, and board games inform the lived experiences of their players. Specifically, he is interested in how these games further values of white privilege and hegemonic masculinity in geek culture. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Analog Game Studies and the Multimedia editor of Sounding Out!