by bgacademics | Feb 16, 2024 | Alexander Jacobi, Issue 1
Increasingly, story worlds of the 21st century are forged through intertextual narrative practices. From the branching texts of popular book and film franchises to the relationships between authorized and non-authorized texts (including fan fictions) that form...
by bgacademics | Feb 16, 2024 | Matthew Konerth, Issue 1
INTRODUCTION On October 23, 2020, the chess world was changed forever when The Queen’s Gambit (hereafter TQG)miniseries was released on Netflix. Set against the backdrop of Cold War era United States and Europe, TQG follows a fictitious female chess prodigy named Beth...
by bgacademics | Feb 16, 2024 | Justin Cosner, Issue 1
I. Teaching Games and Procedural Rhetoric Rhetoric and composition courses are a staple of university education, bringing students into a critical practice of academic inquiry, disciplinary familiarity, and rigorous participation in the discourses around them....
by bgacademics | Feb 16, 2024 | Stephanie Hedge, Issue 1
The sounds of dice rattling and soft pencil scratching permeate a first year composition classroom as students, individually and in small groups, play through tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) designed by their peers that tackle the topic of writing a research...
by bgacademics | Feb 7, 2024 | Issue 1
Alongside the general increase in interest in tabletop gaming, the historical wargaming hobby has taken significant strides in the last several decades and is illustrated both by the changing mechanisms of play and designers’ conscious appeal to wider audiences. ...