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Rebecca Rouse, PhD

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Welcome!

Rebecca Rouse is an Associate Professor (Biträdande Professor) in Media Arts, Aesthetics, and Narration in the Division of Game Development at the University of Skövde, Sweden.

Rouse holds a PhD in Digital Media from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA), an MA in Communication & Culture from the joint program at York University and Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada), and a BA in Theatre Studies and German Studies from Brown University (Providence, RI).

Rouse's research focuses on investigating new forms of storytelling with new technologies such as immersive and responsive systems via queer, critical, feminist perspectives and methods. Rouse designs and develops projects across theatrical performance, interactive installation, movable books, and games. This design work dovetails with Rouse's research in critical pedagogies and design methods, and queer feminist media theory and history of technology.

Selected Recent Publications
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Parvin, N., Rouse, R., Alvarez, D., Haghani, S., Clark, S., Gaskins, N. R., Sullivan, A., Mergil, E., Pelizari, J., Anupam, A., Casula, P., Gupta, S. (2022) “Mess and Making Matters in Feminist Teaching.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Journal 8 (2): 1-45. https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/37713/29221

Rouse, R., Holloway-Attaway, L. (2022) “Playing at the Page: Designing to Support Creative Readership Practices.” JIB: Journal of Interactive Books, 1(1) April 2022: 147-166. DOI:  https://doi.org10.57579/2022JIB013RR
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Rouse, R., Holloway-Attaway, L. (2022) “Behind the Page: Historical Connections and the Making of Simmer, a Mixed Reality Movable Book.” Movable Stationery, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 20-25. https://movablebooksociety.org/newsletter/movable-stationery-volume-30-number-1/​

Rouse, R., Corron, A. (2022) “Why Video Games Education Needs Harriet Tubman.” Ms. Magazine, February 22, 2022: https://msmagazine.com/2022/02/22/video-games-sexism-racism-harriet-tubman-feminist/​

Rouse, R., Holloway-Attaway, L. (2022) “Troubling Games: Materials, Histories, and Speculative Future Worlds for Games Pedagogies.” Convergence, February 2022. DOI: 10.1177/13548565211063080
​Rouse, R. (2021) “Against the Instrumentalization of Empathy: Immersive Technologies and Social Change.” In: Fisher, J. A., Ed. Augmented and Mixed Reality for Communities. Taylor & Francis CRC Press. pp. 3-19. 
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Holloway-Attaway, L., Rouse, R. (2020) “Augmenting Affect: Interaction, Materiality, and Mimetic Communication in Augmented Reality Movable Books.” In: Bown, R., Salisbury, B., Eds. The Art Exhibit at ICIDS 2019 Art Book: The Expression of Emotions in Humans and Technology. Carnegie Mellon ETC Press: Pittsburgh, PA. pp. 69-78.
https://press.etc.cmu.edu/index.php/product/the-art-exhibit-at-icids-2019-art-book/

Marklund, B. B., Rouse, R., Holloway-Attaway, L. (2020) “Contextualizing Game Literacy: a Transhistorical Approach to Understanding Game-Based Learning Environments.” International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games 2020 Proceedings, ACM.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3402942.3409610

Rouse, R., Holloway-Attaway, L. (2020) “A Prehistory of the Interactive Reader and Design Principles for Storytelling in Postdigital Culture.” Yates, S. G., Ivanescu, A. (Eds.) Book 2.0 Journal: special issue on the book and digital technology, vol. 9, Issue 2.
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/btwo/2020/00000010/00000001/art00002;jsessionid=2lftlf639cqlt.x-ic-live-03

Rouse, R., Corron, A. (2020) “Leveling Up: A Critical Feminist Pedagogy for Game Design.” Bradbury-Rance, C.  (Ed.) MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture Journal, Focus Issue: Feminist Pedagogies. Issue 5, Winter 2020.
https://maifeminism.com/leveling-up-a-critical-feminist-pedagogy-for-game-design/