Session 1

Patrick Jagoda is a co-editor of Critical Inquiry and co-founder of both the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab and the Transmedia Story Lab. He is the author of Network Aesthetics (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and co-author of The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer (MIT Press, 2016). He is currently working on his next book, Experimental Games. Jagoda is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature and Cinema and Media Studies.

Sascha Ebeling is a literary scholar and cultural historian working on the literatures and cultural traditions of South India, Southeast Asia, and less commonly read literatures in Europe. More specifically, he has published studies of both modern and pre-modern Tamil literature, the ethnic conflict and civil war in Sri Lanka, the novel in colonial Asia, religion in Angkor-period Cambodia, and modernist poetry around 1900 from a global perspective. Ebeling is Associate Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Department of Comparative Literature.

Michael Dango is a scholar of 20th- and 21st-century American literature and culture, with a special focus on gender, sexuality, and the politics of emotion.  His book in progress, Styles of Repair, explores how emerging styles in art and literature respond to contemporary anxieties, from environmental pollution to political polarization. Dango is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Division of the Humanities.