MLA Commons | Cody Mejeur | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/cmejeur/activity/ Activity feed for Cody Mejeur. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 d0f607091cf6f91a63eb41317faf8f37 Cody Mejeur deposited Drawing Queer Intersections Through Video Game Archives in the group Global Digital Humanities Symposium https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738223/ Fri, 14 May 2021 02:24:22 -0400 This presentation brings together and builds on previous studies of queer representation using the LGBTQ Video Game Archive and the Represent Me games database (Cole et al. 2017) in order to investigate unexplored trends and invisible queer intersections in video games. Specifically, we draw on Queer Intersections in Video Games (Mejeur 2018), a…[Read more]

]]> 0 705869d15d016bdee8b390a20ab5608b Cody Mejeur deposited Drawing Queer Intersections Through Video Game Archives in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738222/ Fri, 14 May 2021 02:24:17 -0400 This presentation brings together and builds on previous studies of queer representation using the LGBTQ Video Game Archive and the Represent Me games database (Cole et al. 2017) in order to investigate unexplored trends and invisible queer intersections in video games. Specifically, we draw on Queer Intersections in Video Games (Mejeur 2018), a…[Read more]

]]> 0 2bc1125aa0912285cd3a4b871ce5f594 Cody Mejeur deposited Drawing Queer Intersections Through Video Game Archives in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738221/ Fri, 14 May 2021 02:24:13 -0400 This presentation brings together and builds on previous studies of queer representation using the LGBTQ Video Game Archive and the Represent Me games database (Cole et al. 2017) in order to investigate unexplored trends and invisible queer intersections in video games. Specifically, we draw on Queer Intersections in Video Games (Mejeur 2018), a…[Read more]

]]> 0 16dad4a7150b00a6907a472b70dcf284 Cody Mejeur deposited Drawing Queer Intersections Through Video Game Archives in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738220/ Fri, 14 May 2021 02:23:49 -0400 This presentation brings together and builds on previous studies of queer representation using the LGBTQ Video Game Archive and the Represent Me games database (Cole et al. 2017) in order to investigate unexplored trends and invisible queer intersections in video games. Specifically, we draw on Queer Intersections in Video Games (Mejeur 2018), a…[Read more]

]]> 0 53415458f21a5e4e8abfe02119c95b84 Cody Mejeur deposited Drawing Queer Intersections Through Video Game Archives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738178/ Thu, 13 May 2021 18:27:52 -0400 This presentation brings together and builds on previous studies of queer representation using the LGBTQ Video Game Archive and the Represent Me games database (Cole et al. 2017) in order to investigate unexplored trends and invisible queer intersections in video games. Specifically, we draw on Queer Intersections in Video Games (Mejeur 2018), a…[Read more]

]]> 0 7879ee516f067058980a18b861547184 Cody Mejeur's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1690730/ Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:53:05 -0400 0 a06fe4b9b1b06f256752cad0251cf9a5 Cody Mejeur deposited Neuroqueer: Contextualizing Narrative through Embodied Experience in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1674958/ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 16:26:58 -0500 As Sue Kim noted at the Narrative 2018 conference, the field of narrative theory is long overdue for a reckoning with its lack of diversity and its frequent silence on issues of race, gender, and sexuality in favor of supposedly neutral, universal qualities of narrative (Hogan 2010). To be sure, the recent works by scholars such as Warhol, Lanser,…[Read more]

]]> 0 f32ffd5cf200839cad590e95be1da1b3 Cody Mejeur deposited Neuroqueer: Contextualizing Narrative through Embodied Experience in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1674957/ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 16:26:55 -0500 As Sue Kim noted at the Narrative 2018 conference, the field of narrative theory is long overdue for a reckoning with its lack of diversity and its frequent silence on issues of race, gender, and sexuality in favor of supposedly neutral, universal qualities of narrative (Hogan 2010). To be sure, the recent works by scholars such as Warhol, Lanser,…[Read more]

]]> 0 1cb4698286850a1c698db2fdf7c03803 Cody Mejeur deposited Neuroqueer: Contextualizing Narrative through Embodied Experience https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1674871/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 21:28:12 -0500 As Sue Kim noted at the Narrative 2018 conference, the field of narrative theory is long overdue for a reckoning with its lack of diversity and its frequent silence on issues of race, gender, and sexuality in favor of supposedly neutral, universal qualities of narrative (Hogan 2010). To be sure, the recent works by scholars such as Warhol, Lanser,…[Read more]

]]> 0 988e19574b47a908eef8b0d9a72a5418 Cody Mejeur deposited Ludonarrative: Queer Experiences, Embodied Stories, and Playful Realities in Video Games in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1671439/ Thu, 05 Dec 2019 16:25:43 -0500 Narrative has been a central topic in game studies since the beginnings of the field, particularly in the foundational debates between narratology and ludology over whether or not games are narrative. Yet in the aftermath of those debates narrative has remained significantly limited to being a linear or at best multilinear form, and studies of…[Read more]

]]> 0 d5e3ff4c658c1a8a13d94f4250ebcacb Cody Mejeur deposited Ludonarrative: Queer Experiences, Embodied Stories, and Playful Realities in Video Games https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1671362/ Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:35:08 -0500 Narrative has been a central topic in game studies since the beginnings of the field, particularly in the foundational debates between narratology and ludology over whether or not games are narrative. Yet in the aftermath of those debates narrative has remained significantly limited to being a linear or at best multilinear form, and studies of…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f1062529ca43c3bfbba43fb582aac49 Cody Mejeur created the group Getting Started with MSU Commons https://commons.msu.edu/activity/p/1643723/ Tue, 02 Jul 2019 15:19:41 -0400 0 ca9a6218ab280d551135cc9f63cfe86d Cody Mejeur started the topic Scholarship on effects of toxic gaming cultures in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/scholarship-on-effects-of-toxic-gaming-cultures/ Tue, 19 Mar 2019 20:11:07 -0400 Hi All,

Based on the cesspool of Islamophobia and silencing of feminist, queer, and critical race studies scholarship that the GamesNetwork listserv has been lately, I’ve been thinking about expanding the Zotero collections here to include ones that address these areas, and particularly the links between toxic gamer/gaming cultures and violences…[Read more]

]]> 0 18c5d12c177b8fc865b8d9b8a9dd56f3 Cody Mejeur replied to the topic CFP: Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Arts Festival 2019 in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/cfp-electronic-literature-organization-conference-media-arts-festival-2019-4/#post-21347 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 19:54:53 -0400 This looks like such a fantastic conference, James! I’ve been meaning to make it to ELO for a long time. I know there’s a contingent of game studies folks that attend regularly, are there specific parts of the conference that are geared toward game studies (events, tracks, etc.)?

]]> 0 29d7a84ba1ae62f4e341523a66c0f775 Cody Mejeur replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/introductions-4/page/2/#post-20888 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 16:11:45 -0500 Yay, so happy you’re here, Liz! Liz has done fantastic work lately with walking sims and learning–if memory serves, it was Firewatch among others?

]]> 0 d1d2fb0419db1ac55db7e71afb32d90b Cody Mejeur's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1634015/ Mon, 04 Mar 2019 18:04:59 -0500 0 86bc7edf06539f8a3d4c5e4fd419c468 Cody Mejeur replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/introductions-4/page/2/#post-20165 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:52:42 -0500 Hi Damian,

I think most folks have forgotten about this group, and I’m at least partly to blame for that–after making it last fall, I got distracted by a number of other projects and didn’t keep up with this as much. I’m still very interested in developing it, particularly as a place to gather discussions, cfps, and resources for game studies…[Read more]

]]> 0 821fc8da34dd324068955b6b14bc1527 Cody Mejeur started the topic Speedrunning Scholarship? in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/speedrunning-scholarship/ Wed, 06 Feb 2019 23:56:48 -0500 Hi All,

I’m working on an event for the Game Studies Guild at Michigan State, which does critical Let’s Play events where we play games and discuss them together. Our speaker for the event is focusing on speedrunning, but I’m having difficulty finding scholarship to read and share on the topic beyond Rainforest Scully-Blaker’s piece in Game…[Read more]

]]> 0 767aac6802b52a5ab80092a3763d7872 Cody Mejeur replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/introductions-4/#post-18305 Mon, 10 Dec 2018 19:35:07 -0500 Hi Cristian, no worries at all! Still getting the group going as I’m able, and need to make a better habit of checking it myself! That makes total sense, and while there has definitely been work on this area since 2005, I think the sense I’ve gotten from Espen and others work on this is that building typologies and a systematized way to study and…[Read more]

]]> 0 c446cbc5e2e74d28053dc1fef2ee9f73 Cody Mejeur replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/introductions-4/#post-17893 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 20:39:54 -0500 Hi Cristian! I’m really interested in your project, and particularly how you see it fitting into/relating to other game studies projects that look at form and structures in games. The ludology camp of game studies in particular has long focused on game structures, forms, and ontologies (almost to the exclusion of anything else), and the two…[Read more]

]]> 0 c7d5b64f014cf77c793b2276f3c560ff Cody Mejeur deposited “‘Look At Me, Boy!’: Carnivalesque, Masks, and Queer Performativity in BioShock” in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623256/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:29:17 -0500 Book chapter exploring the queering of identity in Bioshock, including analysis of masks and carnivalesque culture in the game. The chapter argues that Bioshock presents an opportunity to queer identity and cultural systems, but forecloses on that possibility and instead reinscribes violence. Finally, the chapter uses its close analysis of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 b83dbecbde772ddb0c993142b82048ae Cody Mejeur deposited “‘Look At Me, Boy!’: Carnivalesque, Masks, and Queer Performativity in BioShock” in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623255/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:29:16 -0500 Book chapter exploring the queering of identity in Bioshock, including analysis of masks and carnivalesque culture in the game. The chapter argues that Bioshock presents an opportunity to queer identity and cultural systems, but forecloses on that possibility and instead reinscribes violence. Finally, the chapter uses its close analysis of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 45abce7411d3de4e3f824829edbd0ea6 Cody Mejeur deposited Chasing Wild Space: Narrative Outsides and World-Building Frontiers in Knights of the Old Republic and The Old Republic in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623254/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:29:15 -0500 As introduced in the iconic line that precedes the first film’s opening crawl, Star Wars’s galaxy far, far away is the foundation for the franchise’s worldbuilding efforts. It is the backdrop and context for the story told by any Star Wars film, novel, game, or other text,1 and as such it functions as a narrative world or storyworld. David Herma…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c15e3ecd2326d2976c77454f16178a6 Cody Mejeur deposited Gamers, gender, and cruel optimism: the limits of social identity constructs in The Guild in the group Global Gaming Cultures https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623253/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:29:14 -0500 Video game culture has a long, ongoing history of problems with representation and inclusivity, as a wide variety of forces have constructed video games and gaming as masculine. Against this
background, the popular gamer-oriented web series The Guild (2007–2013) appears to offer a unique counterperspective, presenting a gender-diverse cast and f…[Read more]

]]> 0 3af8a9513123536733aee04fbdb4d2e9 Cody Mejeur deposited Gamers, gender, and cruel optimism: the limits of social identity constructs in The Guild in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623252/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:29:11 -0500 Video game culture has a long, ongoing history of problems with representation and inclusivity, as a wide variety of forces have constructed video games and gaming as masculine. Against this
background, the popular gamer-oriented web series The Guild (2007–2013) appears to offer a unique counterperspective, presenting a gender-diverse cast and f…[Read more]

]]> 0 d931a0bc4c0d3777bf8b182c3135d073 Cody Mejeur deposited Gamers, gender, and cruel optimism: the limits of social identity constructs in The Guild in the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623251/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:29:10 -0500 Video game culture has a long, ongoing history of problems with representation and inclusivity, as a wide variety of forces have constructed video games and gaming as masculine. Against this
background, the popular gamer-oriented web series The Guild (2007–2013) appears to offer a unique counterperspective, presenting a gender-diverse cast and f…[Read more]

]]> 0 e966748f7393c883706b7d5a7c3cdff6 Cody Mejeur started the topic CFP: Geographies of Digital Games in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/cfp-geographies-of-digital-games/ Wed, 07 Nov 2018 21:31:15 -0500 “Geographies of Digital Games”
Organisers: Nick Rush-Cooper (Newcastle University, UK) and Emma Fraser (Manchester University, UK) Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
April 3-7 2019, Washington DC
https://annualmeeting.aag.org/AAGAnnualMeeting Computer, video, mobile and digital games are fundamentally geographical: They are sit…[Read more]

]]> 0 a7d65e627bbd4321fa956e63893d01e1 Cody Mejeur started the topic Sharing Work in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/sharing-work/ Wed, 07 Nov 2018 20:53:31 -0500 Hi All,

I’ve just been adding my publications to the CORE repository here, and tagged the Game Studies group on the deposits so it’s easy to find them. One great benefit of depositing work into CORE is that it gets a DOI, if that publication doesn’t have one already. If you deposit any game studies work, please tag it to the group so members can…[Read more]

]]> 0 70647835feec58ec75c5698bd34f1325 Cody Mejeur deposited “‘Look At Me, Boy!’: Carnivalesque, Masks, and Queer Performativity in BioShock” https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623149/ Wed, 07 Nov 2018 20:45:59 -0500 Book chapter exploring the queering of identity in Bioshock, including analysis of masks and carnivalesque culture in the game. The chapter argues that Bioshock presents an opportunity to queer identity and cultural systems, but forecloses on that possibility and instead reinscribes violence. Finally, the chapter uses its close analysis of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 f92f060998750c74f00180a94a06f678 Cody Mejeur deposited Chasing Wild Space: Narrative Outsides and World-Building Frontiers in Knights of the Old Republic and The Old Republic https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623144/ Wed, 07 Nov 2018 20:22:20 -0500 As introduced in the iconic line that precedes the first film’s opening crawl, Star Wars’s galaxy far, far away is the foundation for the franchise’s worldbuilding efforts. It is the backdrop and context for the story told by any Star Wars film, novel, game, or other text,1 and as such it functions as a narrative world or storyworld. David Herma…[Read more]

]]> 0 e322d90b3d138d50de25b3aa323143a6 Cody Mejeur deposited Gamers, gender, and cruel optimism: the limits of social identity constructs in The Guild https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623142/ Wed, 07 Nov 2018 20:05:21 -0500 Video game culture has a long, ongoing history of problems with representation and inclusivity, as a wide variety of forces have constructed video games and gaming as masculine. Against this
background, the popular gamer-oriented web series The Guild (2007–2013) appears to offer a unique counterperspective, presenting a gender-diverse cast and f…[Read more]

]]> 0 67d374219223412cdae6044d6e53ec66 Cody Mejeur replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/introductions-4/#post-17607 Wed, 07 Nov 2018 19:44:44 -0500 Hi Damian, it’s great to have you here! There are a few places for discussion I’m aware of, but they aren’t all particularly active–I think it’s unfortunate reality of folks being grad students and faculty with extremely busy schedules. But there’s the Game Studies Open Forum on Facebook, the GamesNetwork listserv (I believe run out of Finland,…[Read more]

]]> 0 ce25407291c163fa7cfeb073a1c9b78d Cody Mejeur replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/introductions-4/#post-17443 Tue, 30 Oct 2018 18:52:26 -0400 Oh! And if anyone wants to be an admin and help grow the group, lmk! More the merrier.

]]> 0 98fb35f7718b4b109f7a4886aeb4b9ff Cody Mejeur replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/introductions-4/#post-17440 Tue, 30 Oct 2018 18:51:33 -0400 So exciting to meet everyone! Péter, it’s awesome to see another cognitive humanities/literary studies person doing games work too! Please keep sharing the group in your networks. Hopefully we can build an active community here to support one another, and I’ll keep adding resources as I’m able–please do the same!

]]> 0 fbae961e838a968adec818a01fb79f5e Cody Mejeur created the event {Queer|Digital}Texts in the group Game Studies. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1621345/ Wed, 17 Oct 2018 17:33:08 -0400 0 c9cfc783280039e12587155d525181f9 Cody Mejeur started the topic Introductions in the discussion Game Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/game-studies-1955272390/forum/topic/introductions-4/ Wed, 17 Oct 2018 16:32:58 -0400 Hi All!

Let’s use this thread for introductions–and if you’re just joining the group, please introduce yourself!

I’m Cody Mejeur, a PhD candidate at Michigan State University in the Department of English. I work with narrative in games, specifically the narrative construction of ludic realities in the lived, embodied experience of play. My…[Read more]

]]> 0 1edf05c5a8fa2963ba01ffd751a2f95e Cody Mejeur created the group Game Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1621275/ Tue, 16 Oct 2018 20:29:00 -0400 0 e47e4f027aea71f303ce39cce43c3f84 Cody Mejeur's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1621270/ Tue, 16 Oct 2018 19:43:31 -0400 0 4b9fa48c2e36028f67888307d8438212 Cody Mejeur created the doc Caitlin & Cody Meeting 9/13 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1618152/ Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:59:54 -0400 0 2bd5dd63d762824c3ba036c55febb020 Cody Mejeur's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1617433/ Tue, 04 Sep 2018 17:47:20 -0400 0