Ken McAllister

Ken McAllister is Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Program Innovation in the College of Humanities. A scholar of popular culture, Ken has published on topics ranging from bagpipe music and magic shows to video games and alien languages. He is also an avid collector and taster of uisge beatha and other regional spirits from around the world. He specializes in digital humanities, rhetorics of technology, and computer game studies. He has authored or co-authored six books, three edited collections, and dozens of articles and book chapters on media history, theory, and analysis. In his role as Co-Director of the Learning Games Initiative Research Archive–one of the largest publicly accessible collections of computer games and related material in the world–he has also published and lectured widely on the politics and processes of digital artifact archiving and preservation.