Books
Colonial Intersections in Video Games. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. (under contract)
Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. ISBN: 9780367894115, 236 pages.
Articles and chapters
„From Saviour to Colonial Perpetrator. Manipulating Player Empathy in Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill Origins”. Gaming (with) Affect and Trauma, special issue of parallax, edited by Laurent Milesi, 2022. (accepted for publication)
“(Anti)Colonial Anti-Communism in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. Appropriating the Anti-Colonial Rhetoric of Heart of Darkness and F.E.A.R. to Criticize Soviet Communism.” Transilvania, no. 4, 2022, pp. 15-21. ISSN: 0255-0539.
“The ‘Pure’ Romanian: (Re)writing Romanian National Identity in Dan Puric’s Romanian Soul.” Journal of Romanian Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2022.
“From Male to Colonial Gaze: The Intersection of Patriarchy and Colonial Discourse in the Rebooted Tomb Raider Video Game Series.” Video Games and Spatiality in American Studies. ed. Dietmar Meinel. Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. ISBN: 978-3-11-067510-8.
“Can Artificial Humans Go to Heaven? Transhumanist Salvation in Shelley’s Frankenstein and the Hitman Series.” Religious Narratives in Contemporary Culture: Between Cultural Memory and Transmediality. eds. Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, Dragoş Manea. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021.
Conference participations
| Date | 19.09.2021 (online participation) |
| Workshop | Video Games at the Intersection of Postcolonialism, Postcommunism, and Globalisation |
| Organizer | “Colonial Discourse in Video Games” postdoctoral research project via the Center for American Studies, University of Bucharest |
| Paper | Colonial Perpetuation in the Silent Hill Series |
| Date | 01-05.09.2021 |
| Summer school | Ecologies of Emancipation |
| Organizer | Tranzit |
| Paper | Video Games as Simulators of Cultural Identities: the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Class in the Context of the Climate Crisis |
| Date | 03-05.06.2021 (online participation) |
| Conference | The 22nd Annual International Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest – “Re-Writing/Re-Imagining the Past |
| Organizer | The English Department, University of Bucharest |
| Paper | Gameplay and the Colonisation of the Past in Fatal Frame |
| Date | 03-06.06.2021 (online participation) |
| Conference | “The art itself is nature”: Shakespeare’s Nature, Art, Politics, ESRA Virtual Conference 2021 |
| Organizer | European Shakespeare Research Association |
| Paper | Survival Horror and Colonialism: the Role of Caliban in Silent Hill: Origins |
Other public appearances
| Date | 12.11.2021 |
| Organizer | MA in British Cultural Studies, University of Bucharest |
| Event | Book launch: Nae, A. Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games. London: Routledge, 2021; guest speakers: Prof. Dr. Sascha Pöhlmann & Dr. Aline Job |
| Date | 05.11.2021 |
| Organizer | Z9 Popular and the Faculty of Letters and Arts, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu |
| Event | Book launch: Nae, A. Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games |
| Date | 12.05.2021 |
| Organizer | Cărtureşti |
| Event | “Representing LGBTQ Identities in The Last of Us Part II” as part of the YA Festival |
| Date | 23.09.2021 |
| Organizer | RADAR (Romanian Artists Developing Alternative Realities) |
| Event | New media art in Romanian education |
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