Faculty
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DEREK BURRILL Professor Burrill's expertise and research includes digital media and video games, particularly in relation to theories of the body and masculinity. His dissertation focused on digital culture - the cultural matrix surrounded by and subsumed by digital technologies - and how live performance practices, video games, and masculinity coalesce to produce a new technological subjectivity for the 21st century. Secondary areas of research include cinema, televisual studies, and communications theory, as well as informatics and digital media production. Current works include a chapter entitled “‘Oh Grow Up, 007’: The Performance of Bond and Boyhood in Video Games,” in the anthology ScreenPlay, “Jet Set Kids 2000” in Spirited Away, and the articles “Out of the Box: Performance, Drama and Interactive Software” (Modern Drama), “Watch Your Ass!: The Structure of Masculinity in Video Games,” (Text Technology), “Check Out My Moves” (Social Semiotics), and “ZeroDegree” with Andrew Strombeck, in the journal Open Spaces. He also serves on the editorial board for Games and Culture: The Journal for Interactive Media.
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