Christopher James Goetz Department of Cinematic Arts University of Iowa http://clas.uiowa.edu/ccl/people/chris-goetz [email protected]

EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor in Film Studies and New Media – University of Iowa, 2016 Department of Cinematic Arts, and the Public Humanities in a Digital World initiative

EDUCATION Ph.D. The University of California, Berkeley, 2016 Department of Film & Media Film Studies, Designated Emphasis in New Media M.A. The University of California at Berkeley, 2007 Rhetoric Department Film Studies B.A.

Michigan State University, May 2006 College of Social Science, Honors College Political Science and English, focus in Film Studies

DISSERTATION At Home Everywhere: Empowerment Fantasies in the Domestication of Videogames. Kristen Whissel (chair), Linda Williams, Abigail De Kosnik PUBLICATIONS Peer Reviewed Articles: “Tether and Accretions: Fantasy as Form in Videogames” in Games and Culture. Vol. 7 (6). pp. 419-440. December, 2012. Peer Reviewed Articles Under Consideration: “Nintendo’s Fruit-Snack Aesthetic: How Games Taste”. Undergoing recommended revisions for resubmission at the Journal of Visual Culture. “The Fantasy that Never Takes Place: Gaming’s Nostalgic ‘Second Sight’”. Undergoing revision.

Articles by Invitation: “Securing Home Base: Separation-Individuation, Attachment Theory, and the ‘Virtual Worlds’ Paradigm in Videogames,” in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. Forthcoming, 2017. “Stepping out of the Virtual World Paradigm” in Memory Insufficient. September, 2015. “Building Queer Community: Report on the Queerness and Games Design Workshop” in First Person Scholar, Special Feature. February, 2015. Book Chapters (Invited): “Sideways Desire in Videogames” in Queer Game Studies: Gender, Sexuality, and a Queer Approach to Game Studies. Under review, University of Minnesota Press. Forthcoming, 2016. Book Reviews: Review of How to Do Things With Videogames. New Media & Society 15:805. August, 2013. Review of Subversion, Sexuality, and the Virtual Self. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. Forthcoming. PAPERS PRESENTED “Microworlds and ‘Time Out of Time’ in Videogames” at Extending Play 3. September 30 and October 1, 2016: Rutgers University. “Playing at/and History: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Video Game Historiography” Panel (chaired). “The Fantasy that Never Takes Place: Nostalgia and Videogames” SCMS 55th Annual Conference. Montreal, Quebec, March 25-29, 2015. “Para-Gaming: Gaming Beside Itself” Panel. “Nintendo’s Fruit-Snack Aesthetic: How Games Taste” at the Yale Graduate Film Conference, Eye Candy: Consuming Moving Images at the Cinema and Beyond. Yale University, New Haven, CT. Feb 13-15, 2015. “‘Heart On Your Sleeve’: The Psychic Dimension of Wearable Media,” The Contours of Algorithmic Life Conference. University of California, Davis, Davis, California. May 15-16, 2014. “Pleasures” panel. “Sideways Desire in Videogames,” Sex, Media, Reception: New Approaches Conference. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. February 14-15, 2014. “Phenomenology of Digital Encounters” Panel “From Plungers to Flippers: The Discursive History of a Fantasy,” SCMS 53rd Annual Conference. Chicago, IL, March 6-10, 2013. “Beyond Screen Convergence: Commercial Games in Cultural Context” Panel (chaired). “Layton, House, and Holmes: The ‘Master Puzzler’ Fantasy in Videogames, Television, and Cinema,” Midwestern Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI, Fall 2011 2

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Film 26, Film Production. GSI. UC Berkeley, Fall 2015 New Media 1B, Nostalgia and the Future in New Media. Instructor. UC Berkeley, Summer 2015 Film 1B, “Like a Video Game”: War, Participation, and Detachment. Co-instructor. UC Berkeley, Spring 2015 Film 26, Film Production. GSI. UC Berkeley, Fall 2014 Film 1B, Videogame Thought and Culture. Instructor, UC Berkeley, Summer 2014 Film 1B, Critical Videogame Analysis. Co-instructor, UC Berkeley, Spring 2014 Film 100, History of Film Theory. Co-instructor, UC Berkeley, Summer 2013 Theater 177, Sound Design and Media Theater. TA. UC Berkeley, Spring 2013 Media Studies 102, Effects of Mass Media. GSI. UC Berkeley, Fall 2012 Art 26, Film Production. GSI. UC Berkeley, Spring 2012 Film 25A, History of Silent Cinema. Instructor. UC Berkeley, Summer 2011 Film R1B, Intro to Gaming Thought and Culture. Senior GSI. UC Berkeley, Fall 2010 Film 108, Superhero Film. Instructor. UC Berkeley, Summer 2010 Film R1B, Gaming Culture. Instructor. UC Berkeley, Spring 2010 Film R1B, Points of View in Cinema. Co-GSI. UC Berkeley, Spring 2009 INVITED PRESENTATIONS 7/21/2016 “Global Context of Videogame History” in Special Topics in History: Japanese Popular Culture from Postwar to Postmodern. Instructor Andrea Horbinski. UC Berkeley 10/28/2015 “On Virtual Worlds and Cinematic Navigation” in Film & Media Cultures. Professor Damon Young. UC Berkeley 03/09/2015 “Diversity in Videogames” with Bonnie Ruberg in Zoning and Grinding: The Rhetoric of Games. Professor Greg Niemeyer. UC Berkeley 10/25/2014 “Organizing Undergraduate Design Workshops” on the panel, “Queer Gaming Communities” at the Queerness and Games Conference. 06/25/2014 “The Adultness of Games” in Playing Race: Investigating American Racial Identities Through Video Games. Instructor Bonnie Ruberg. UC Berkeley 09/26/2013 “The Philosophy Behind the Turing Test Tournament.” Acing the Turing Test: AI and What Makes Us Human. Panel presentation with Greg Niemeyer on the Turing Test Tournament. UC Berkeley 01/30/2013 “Videogames: Medium Specificity and Play as Fantasy,” in Red, Flame, Crackle, Burning: An Incendiary Investigation of the Inters of Language and Visual Culture. Instructor Robert Perez. St. Mary’s College 12/04/2012 “Fantasy in Videogames and Cinema: The Ludic Body in Media Convergence.” Part of a lecture series, The Digital Society in Context—New Media Research Group. University of California, Berkeley. Organized by Jen Schradie.

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11/09/2012 “The Notion of the Classic Videogames” and a discussion of Tether/Accretions in the Graduate Seminar, On the Idea of the ‘Classical’ in Film and Media. Instructor Linda Williams. UC Berkeley. AWARDS AND HONORS Student Technology Fee Award Recipient, “Queer on Campus” workshop, 2015 Outstanding GSI Award Recipient, 2014/2015 Innovation Grant: Equity, Inclusion, Diversity (“Difference at Play” and “Queer on Campus” Projects), 2014, 2015 New Media Summer Research Fellowship Award, Berkeley Center for New Media, 2013 Chancellor’s multi-year Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2006—2011 McNair/SROP Scholar, Michigan State University, 2005—2006

ACADEMIC & EXTRACURRICULAR SERVICE AND EXPERIENCE Seven Fables Chat Script Writer Geppetto Labs, Mark Meadows Spring, 2015 Queerness and Games Conference Co-Creator, Co-Organizer, 2013, 2014, 2015 October (2013, 2014, 2015) U.C. Berkeley http://www.qgcon.com/ Queerness and Games Undergraduate Design Workshop Lead Organizer, 2015 Co-Organizer and Publicist, Session Leader, Conference Liaison, 2014 Turing Test Tournament Design Committee, Summer 2013 http://ttt.berkeley.edu/ On The Same Page Program (Campus-wide student outreach), U.C. Berkeley http://computerage-onthesamepage.berkeley.edu/ Meet Your Bot Hackathon Planning Committee Member October 12th, 2013. Competitive Hackathon for developing chat script for Turing Test Tournament Special Guests Bruce and Sue Wilcox New Media Working Group Co-Facilitator, 2012-14; Member, 2008-present BCNM, U.C. Berkeley 4

Games and Culture Peer Reviewer, 2014-Present Executive Committee, Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) Student Member, 2011-2014 U.C. Berkeley Research Committee, BCNM Student Member, 2009-2011 BCNM, U.C. Berkeley Second International Berkeley Conference on Silent Cinema Planning Committee Department of Film & Media, U.C. Berkeley UC Press Liaison, Spring 2013 New Media & Society Peer Reviewer, 2008-2012 Opinion Space BCNM, U.C. Berkeley Design Committee, 2009-2010 Research Assistant 2009-2010, Professor Abigail De Kosnik 2008-2009, Professor Kristen Whissel AFFILIATIONS Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) SCMS Video Game Studies Scholarly Interest Group HASTAC MLA REFERENCES Kristen Whissel Professor, UC Berkeley Department of Film & Media The University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 [email protected] Linda Williams Professor, UC Berkeley Departments of Rhetoric and Film & Media 5

The University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 [email protected] Abigail De Kosnik Associate Professor, UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, and the BCNM The University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 [email protected] Greg Niemeyer Professor, UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice, and the BCNM (Director) The University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 [email protected]

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