[Péter Kristóf Makai]

Cheerio, I’m Péter Kristóf Makai, a postdoc at Linnaeus University’s Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies. I wrote my BA and MA on the Monkey Island series and Disney theme parks’ creation of narrative structure and intermedial references to themed entertainment. I wrote my PhD on cognitive literary studies of novels featuring people on the autistic spectrum. My postdoc is about the investigation of evolutionary theory and Darwin’s thought across media borders, including video and board games, but also nonfiction, science fiction and TV documentaries. I have published in Wiley-Blackwell’s A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien on Tolkien-inspired game genres, and in Tolkien Studies about Tolkien as an early theorist of virtual reality. I have published on fairy tales and mythopoetics in computer games in Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales: How Applying New Methods Generates New Meanings, and have been active in the game studies and intermedia communities in the past few years.

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