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Zach Whalen : Curriculum Vitae
Book
Foss, C., et al., editors. Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives. 1st ed. 2016 edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
“Notion – The All-in-One Workspace for Your Notes, Tasks, Wikis, and Databases.” Notion, https://www.notion.so. Accessed 26 Feb. 2023.
Whalen, Zach, and Laurie N. Taylor. Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games. Vanderbilt University Press, 2008.
Articles and Chapters
Whalen, Zach. “Any Means Necessary to Refuse Erasure by Algorithm: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s Travesty Generator.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 017, no. 2, July 2023.
———. “Channel F for Forgotten: The Fairchild Video Entertainment System.” Before the Crash: An Anthology of Early Video Game History, edited by Mark J. P. Wolf, Wayne State University Press, 2012.
———. “Cruising in San Andreas: Ludic Space and Urban Aesthetics in Grand Theft Auto.” The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto, McFarland, 2006.
———. “Deviant Materialities: Reflecting Surfaces and Hollow Bodies in CSI.” Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media, no. 13, May 2008.
———. “Film Music vs. Video-Game Music: The Case of Silent Hill.” Music, Sound and Multimedia, Edinburgh University Press, 2007, pp. 68–84.
———. “Game/Genre: A Critique of Generic Formulas in the Video Games in the Context of ‘The Real.’” Works and Days, vol. 22, no. 43/44, 2004.
———. “Ludology: Who Gets to Play.” M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, vol. 7, no. 2, Mar. 2004, http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0403/08-ludology.php.
———. “Play Along: An Approach to Video Game Music.” Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Game Research, vol. 4, no. 1, 2004, http://www.gamestudies.org/0401/whalen/.
———. “The 2020 Presidential Debate But Only the Parts Where Someone Breathes Loudly or Sighs.” Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, no. 26, 2023. hyperrhiz.io, https://doi.org/10.20415/hyp/026.a02.
Whalen, Zach, and Laurie N. Taylor. “Introduction to Playing the Past.” Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games, edited by Zach Whalen and Laurie N. Taylor, Vanderbilt University Press, 2008.
Conference Presentations
Whalen, Zach. “Altering Reality: Teaching with and about ARGs.” [Fredericksburg, VA], 2009, Faculty Academy.
———. “Alternate Reality Games and the Futures of Textuality.” Futures of Digital Studies [Gainesville, FL], 2010, 5th Digital Assembly Conference at the University of Florida.
———. “An Archaeology of the Videogame Image.” [Philadelphia, PA], 2008, 2008 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference.
———. “Bodies and/as/of Evidence: CSI: Dark Motives and Uncanny Doubles.” [Jacksonville, FL], 2005, PCAS/ACAS 2005 Conference.
———. “Close Enough.” [Seattle, WA], 2012, 2012 Modern Language Association Convention, http://zachwhalen.net/blog/12/jan/mla-2013-close-enough.
———. “//Create Magnetic Children: Videogame Code as Critical Paratext.” [Boston, MA], 2012, 2012 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference.
———. “Game(Text): Videogames and Textual Aesthetics.” [Blacksburg, VA], 2010, Center for Digtial Discourse and Culture.
———. “Heads-Up Display: Text in the Videogame Interface.” [Chicago, IL], 2007, 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference.
———. “House of Leaves and Digital Ontology.” Visual Culture: Image, Icon, and Ideology [Manhattan, KS], 2005, 14th Annual KSU Cultural Studies Conference.
———. “How I Use Drupal to Roll My Own.” [Fredericksburg, VA], 2009, Faculty Academy.
———. “Ideology and Discourse in Videogame Co[Ntext]De.” [Fairfax, VA], 2009, Southern American Studies Association.
———. “Is Digital Scholarship Really Scholarship?” [Fredericksburg, VA], 2010, Faculty Academy.
———. “Lost in Emulation: World of Difference in Videogame Typography.” World Building: Space and Community [Gainesville, FL], 2007, 3rd Annual UF Game Studies Conference.
———. “Play Me a Story; Music and Narrative in Video Games.” 2003, 2003 UF Graduate and Professional Student Forum.
———. “Playing with the Past: Structural Pastiche and Visual Nostalgia XIII and Viewtiful Joe.” Comics & Animation: Simultaneity & Sequentiality, 2004, 2004 UF Conference on Comics.
———. “Quest for Saddam / Quest for Bush: Fantastic Abstractions in Videogame Rhetoric.” [Gainesville, FL], 2007, UF English Graduate Organization 7th Annual Conference.
———. “Reading as Cryptography: The Role of Encoding and Decoding in Digital Print Culture.” Elective Affinities [Philadelphia, PA], 2005, IAWIS/AIERTI 7th International Conference on Word & Image Studies.
———. “Survival Horror Stories: Musical and Aural Landscapes.” [Los Angeles, CA], 2004, Narr@tive: Digital Storytelling.
———. “The Silence of the Hills: Video Game Music, Diegesis, and the Poetics of Empty Space.” Constellations of Youth: Intersecting Adults’ and Children’s Culture. [Gainesville, FL], 2004, 2004 UF EGO Conference.
———. “The Videogame Text.” [University of Maryland], 2009, Digital Dialogues.
———. “Zork and the Problem of a Video Game Canon.” [Los Angeles, CA], 2010, 2010 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference.