Emma Vossen, PhD

Emma is a Toronto based writer, editor, and award-winning public speaker with a PhD from the University of Waterloo. She is the co-author and co-editor of the book Feminism in Play and is currently working on the upcoming collection Historiographies of Game Studies: What it has been, what it could be.

Emma has over 10 years of developmental editing, writing, and public speaking experience. She is especially interested in non-academic work opportunities that involve social media, communities, games, play, and culture, but she is also open to opportunities outside these industries.

Much of her writing looks at the intersections of politics and games both historically and today. Her most recent article “Tom Nook, Capitalist or Comrade?” discusses the Animal Crossing games in the context of the contemporary housing crisis.

Emma has been interviewed about her work by many news publications, including Wired, Macleans Magazine, The Washington Post, and Electronic Gaming Monthly. In 2016 CBC Ideas made a 40-minute radio documentary about her research that was broadcasted nationally.

Emma has recently completed two Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at both York University and the University of British Columbia. She is currently looking for work opportunities.

Post Doctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia, Refiguring Innovation in Games (ReFiG), 2019-2020

Post Doctoral Fellow, York University, Refiguring Innovation in Games (ReFiG), 2018 - 2019

PhD, English Language and Literature, University of Waterloo, 2018

Dissertation: “On the Cultural Inaccessibility of Gaming: Invading, Creating, and Reclaiming the Cultural Clubhouse”

MA, English Language and Literature, Highest Honors, Carleton University, 2010

BA,  English Language and Literature, Highest Honors, Carleton University, 2009