[Sarah Stang]

Hey everyone!

I’m Sarah Stang, a PhD candidate at York University in Toronto, Ontario. I’m in the Communication & Culture program working under the supervision of Jennifer Jenson. My research focus is on issues of representation in games, especially around gender. My dissertation work is looking at how monsters in games function as symbolic representations of marginalized identities (focusing on gender, queerness, disability, madness, old age, and fatness). I’m drawing on scholarship on mediated monstrosity (especially in film and literature) and analyzing in-game monsters using textual analysis methods and the concepts of the abject and the grotesque.

I’m also the essays editor at First Person Scholar and on the editorial board of Press Start. Those are both graduate-student run game studies publications, so if you’re interested in getting your work out there, feel free to chat with me 🙂

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