JCMS Co-Editor, 2022-2027

Biography

Dr. Bo Ruberg (they/them) is an associate professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine and the co-editor of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Their research explores gender and sexuality in digital media and digital cultures. They are the author of three monographs: Video Games Have Always Been Queer (NYU Press, 2019), The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games (2020), and Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies (MIT Press, 2022). They are also the co-editor of Queer Game Studies (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) and Live Streaming Culture (MIT Press, 2023).

Degrees

Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Creative Writing and Literature, Bard College

Teaching and Research Interests

Video Games, Digital Media, Technology, Fandom, Queerness, Gender, Sexuality

Selected Publications

Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022

The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.

Video Games Have Always Been Queer. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2019.

Contact

Department of Film and Media Studies
2000 Humanities Gateway
University of California, Irvine
92697

bruberg@uci.edu

Twitter: @myownvelouria

Pronouns: they/them