An Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, TreaAndrea M. Russworm teaches classes on video games, digital cultural studies, and African American popular culture. She is a co-editor of the forthcoming book Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games (Indiana University Press, 2017). Her other books on media and representation include Blackness is Burning: Civil Rights, Popular Culture, and the Problem of Recognition (Wayne State University Press, 2016) and From Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry (University of Mississippi Press, 2016).