TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Amherst, Massachusetts, is associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is author of Blackness is Burning: Civil Rights, Popular Culture, and the Problem of Recognition and coeditor of Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games. Her work has been published in Cinema Journal's Teaching Media and in the books Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black Audiences and Game On, Hollywood! Essays on the Intersection of Video Games and Cinema.
