About
I am a doctoral candidate in English at the University of California, Riverside although my work is primarily in the fields of Media Theory and Cultural Studies. Currently I am finishing my dissertation which will be one of the first book length theoretical studies of race in videogames. My project provides a history of the development of race in videogames, three theories that explain and describe how race functions in gamespace, and a final section that proposes how to performatively subvert hegemonic power structures in games. Key to my dissertation is my concept of displaced racialization that revises how race is understood in games taking the concept from its traditional understanding as a representational category attached to bodies and reconfiguring it as a displaced signifier embedded deep within discourse, architecture, code, etc.
This website is meant to be a laboratory for ideas and, with any luck, a site to engage in more dialogue about my work and the work of others.
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Email: tanner [dot] higgin [at] gmail [dot] com
Mail:
Dept. of English
University of California, Riverside
HMNSS 1202
Riverside, CA 92521
