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Ryan House
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Student Services Specialist
Student Support Services
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Ryan House Pronouns: He/Him/His
Student Services Specialist
Student Support Services
Specialty area(s)
digital media; videogames; game studies; composition studies; academic writing; professional and technical writing;
Education
Ph.D., Media, Cinema, Digital Studies Spring 2024
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, English Department
Research interests: game studies, cooperative play, human/non-human assemblages,
scaffolded cognition, ludopolitics
M.A., English Literature 2015
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
Thesis: “Playing with Meaning: The Role of Fiction in the Processes of Meaning-Making
in Video Games”
B.A., English 2011
Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas
Career
Research and publishing
Refereed Journal Articles
“‘Likers Get Liked’: Platform Capitalism and the Precariat in Death Stranding.” Democracy
Dies Playfully: (Anti-)Democratic Ideas in and Around Video Games, special issue of
Gamevironments, no. 13, 2020, pp. 290-316.
“The Author Interface: Rethinking Authorship Through Ludoliterary Analysis of The Stanley
Parable and The Beginner’s Guide.” Small Screen Fictions, special issue of Paradoxa,
no. 29, 2017, pp. 99-121.
Book Chapters
"Life on the Battlefield: Reframing the Domestic Experience of War in This War of Mine."
Feminist War Games?: Mechanisms of War, Feminist Values, and Interventional
Games, edited by Jon Saklofske, Alyssa Arbuckle, and Jon Bath, Routledge, Dec 2019,
pp. 53-63.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
“‘What’chu Lookin’ At?’: Narrative, Spectatorship, and Ludic Constructivism in Variable
State’s Virginia.” Interactive Storytelling, ICIDS 2019, Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, vol 11869. Edited by Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Anne Sullivan, and R. Michael
Young, Springer, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33894-7_20.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.” Aliens in Popular Culture. Eds. Mike Levy and Farah
Mendlesohn. Greenwood, 2019, pp. 251-253.