Dr Emma Westecott is associate professor in Game Design and co-director of the game:play lab at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) University in Toronto, Canada (http://www.ocadu.ca). She has worked in the game industry for over 25 years: in development, research and the academy. She originally achieved international recognition for working closely with Douglas Adams as producer for the best-selling CD-ROM Adventure Game, Starship Titanic (1998, Simon & Schuster). Since then, Emma has built up a worldwide reputation for developing original as well as popular game research projects. As a feminist game studies scholar, Emma’s research connects the aesthetic, expressive, and political potential of digital game form to a longer tradition of critically informed research-creation practice.
Contact: OCAD University, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, ON M5T 2W7, Canada.
