Nate Garrelts
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Nate Garrelts | |
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| Born | Nathan Garrelts |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | PhD, Michigan State University, American Studies |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, Professor |
| Known for | Cultural Studies |
| Notable work | Understanding Minecraft (2014), The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto (2006), Digital Gameplay (2005) |
Nate Garrelts is an Associate Professor of English at FSU in the Languages and Literature Department. His scholarship is focused on digital culture, and he has edited three collections of essays on digital games: Digital Gameplay (McFarland, 2005), The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto (McFarland, 2006), and Understanding Minecraft (McFarland, 2014). He has also contributed essays to the websites Bad Subjects and Berfrois.
Contribution to Game Studies
Garrelts received his PhD in American Studies from Michigan State University (2003), where his dissertation was titled The Official Strategy Guide for Video Game Studies: Grammar and Rhetoric. In 2003, he founded the Video Game Studies area at the Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association National Conference in New Orleans and continued to coordinate it until 2007. The area, which has since been renamed Video Game Studies, is one of the longest continually run scholarly games studies events in the United States. His book The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto was the first academic collection to focus on a single game series.
In print
- Garrelts, Nate (2005). Digital Gameplay: Essays on the Nexus of Game and Gamer. Jefferson, North Carolina, United States: McFarland. ISBN 9780786422920.
- Garrelts, Nate (2006). The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto: Critical Essays. Jefferson, North Carolina, United States: McFarland. ISBN 9780786428229.
- Garrelts, Nate (2014). Understanding Minecraft: Essays on Play, Community and Possibilities. Jefferson, North Carolina, United States: McFarland. ISBN 9780786479740.