Carly Kocurek

Carly A. Kocurek is an assistant professor of Digital Humanities and Media Studies at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Her book, Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade, examines the cultural history of coin-op video games and the emergence of gaming culture, and she is co-editor and co-founder of the Influential Game Designers book series published by Bloomsbury. Her work has appeared in journals such as Game Studies, Visual Studies, and The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds as well as in outlets such as The Atlantic and Ms.