Faculty Profile

Stephanie Boluk
Associate Professor of English
Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Media

Ph.D. University of Florida

Stephanie Boluk is an associate professor in Cinema and Digital Media and English. Research areas include game studies, game design, media studies, computer history, and electronic literature. 

Room 253, Voorhies
boluk[remove-this-and-replace-with-at]ucdavis.edu
Announcement

Boluk and LeMieux Publish “Metagaming”

Patrick LeMieux Stephanie Boluk

In their new book Metagaming, Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux argue that “the greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games rather than a medium for making metagames.” Elegantly defined as “games about games,” metagames implicate a diverse range of practices that stray outside the boundaries and bend the rules: from technical glitches and forbidden strategies to Renaissance painting, algorithmic trading, professional sports, and the War on Terror.