Austin Anderson Ph.D is a Provostial Fellow at Stanford University who studies how video games and techniques of play overlap with racial, gendered, and class considerations. His first book project, Racial Recursivity: A Methodology for Critical Race Game Studies, creates a ludic-textual framework for reading video games as racial cultural projects. He has published in the area of Game Studies, African American Literature, Comic Studies and more, and his work has appeared in the Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, Electronic Book Review, The Comparatist, Popular Culture Review, and other outlets. He received his PhD from Howard University in 2025.
