"Open World Empire" explores connections between race, erotics, and the global rise of video games"--
Christopher B. Patterson is Associate Professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia.. His books include Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games (2020), which was a finalist the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize and Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific (2018), which won the Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize for International Scholarship in Transnational American Studies. He is co-editor of Transpacific, Undisciplined (2024), and Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) About Us (2024).
