MLA Resources
I’ve included select, relevant presentations that demonstrate key research interests.
You Must Remember This
“You Must Remember This: Gendered Conflicts and Stereotypes within Interactive Dramas.” Different Games Conference, October 2018.
You Must Remember This Presentation
You Must Remember This Proposal
The following presentation explores the performance of gender across a spectrum of video games that encourage player agency in shaping the narrative. As a genre, interactive games have afforded complex representations of playable female characters, such as Clementine in Telltale’s The Walking Dead, Max from Life is Strange, and the women of Until Dawn. Despite notable women, games emphasizing player choice are grounded by female suffering, stereotyping, and silences.
Domestic Battles, Gendered Conflicts
“Domestic Battles and Mutilated Mothers: Gendered Conflicts of Resident Evil’s Experimentation.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, March 2018.
Domestic Battles and Mutilated Mothers
Domestic Battles documents how, over two decades of games, Resident Evil equated female spaces as domestic, creating invulnerable women in the home, only to brutally murder them and create sexualized monsters as soon as they trespass to work spaces, the male sphere of control. To demonstrate this, I applied domestic and feminist rhetorics to the project, a revision of my MA thesis.
Enabling Tutoring
“Sound Writing: Enabling and Enacting Tutor Training for Audio Essays” (poster) (co-authored with Brynn Kairis). Conference on College Composition and Communication Convention, March 2017.
This poster stems from an IRB approved research project, inspired by watching our tutors in a multimodal writing center struggle under the assumption they would ‘teach’ technology instead of the teachers in question.
Renee Ann Drouin 