Amanda Phillips

Amanda Phillips is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University, affiliated with the Departments of English, Film and Media Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and American Studies. Their research focuses on feminist and queer theory in digital media, with a particular emphasis on critical game studies and digital humanities.

Selected publications include Gamer Trouble: Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture and co-editing the Queer/Trans/Digital book series. Their scholarship appears in journals such as ROMchip, Feminist Media Histories, and Games and Culture.

• Research Interests:
  • Digital media and gender politics
  • Queer theory in gaming contexts
  • Decolonial and anti-racist digital humanities
  • Critical analysis of game mechanics
  • Digital labor and precarity
  • Affective histories of gaming
• Scientific Awards:
  • Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow
• Academic Leadership:
  • Former chair of the American Studies Association Digital Humanities Caucus
  • Co-founder of the #transformDH Collective
  • Editorial work on special issues of Game Studies and Antares: Letras e Humanidades
• Previous Institutions:
  • IMMERSe Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Davis
  • Ph.D. recipient from University of California, Santa Barbara with emphasis in Feminist Studies