Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/19/2024
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location
4010 JFSB
Category(ies)
Mike Call and Brian Croxall join the Humanities Center as this week’s colloquium speakers on Thursday, September 19 at 3:00 pm in 4010 JFSB. They will be discussing their research into video game studies and its place in the humanities.
Title: “Y Play Games”
This Fall, we are launching a new lecture series focusing on video games. In our presentation, we will discuss recent trends in games criticism and the beginnings of our work to establish the College of Humanities as the locus of game studies at BYU. We will conclude with a case study examining Stardew Valley (2016) as an example of the other lectures to come from faculty throughout the rest of the semester.
About our presenters:
Michael Call is a professor in the Department of Comparative Arts and Letters. His current research project examines the cultural impact of the development of quantitative probability in 17th-century France.
Brian Croxall is associate research professor of digital humanities at Brigham Young University. His research interests include American and English literatures from the nineteenth century to the present; game, trauma, and media studies (not all together!); comic strips, especially Peanuts; and pedagogy. With Diane K. Jakacki, he is the co-editor of What We Teach When We Teach DH (2023), from the University of Minnesota Press. He is also the co-editor, with Rachel A. Bowser, of Like Clockwork: Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures (2016, Minnesota). He has served in various national and international professional organizations, including as a member of both the Executive Council and Program Committee of the Modern Language Association.
