Steven Gotzler

Steven Gotzler is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of English & Comparative Literature, serving as Associate Director of the Digital Literacy and Communications (DLC) Lab. He specializes in teaching writing, digital humanities, and game studies, with research focusing on labor regimes, game studies, and materialist media theory. His work emphasizes minimal computing principles for digital projects like MARXdown, a sustainable online resource for reading Marx's Capital Vol.1.

His research explores intersections of labor history, game formalism, and media materiality. Current projects include analyzing worker placement board games as capitalist realism exemplars and cognitive mapping in Disco Elysium. He co-hosts Subject Matter: Table Top, a podcast dissecting board games' cultural themes. Upcoming publications address teaching video games in humanities and lumpenproletariat theory.

Gotzler teaches courses on writing, horror fiction, video games, and tabletop game design. His research interests span British literature (1900–present), critical race/gender studies, ecocriticism, and media studies. He actively develops digital humanities tools prioritizing accessibility and sustainability.

Lab affiliations include the DLC Lab, where he advances digital literacy initiatives. His interdisciplinary work bridges humanities scholarship with computational minimalism, emphasizing ethical tech practices and community-driven knowledge curation.