Bonnie Ruberg, Ph.D. is a Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar in the Interactive Media and Games Division at the University of Southern California and an incoming Assistant Professor of digital media and games in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine. Her research explores gender and sexuality in digital cultures, with a special interest in LGBTQ issues in video games. Bonnie is the lead organizer of the annual Queerness and Games Conference, the co-editor of the volume Queer Game Studies, and the author of a current book project titled Playing Queer: Sexuality, Gender, and Identity in Video Games beyond Representation.