Austin Anderson

Austin Anderson (he/him) is a Provostial Fellow, housed in the English Department, at Stanford University who studies video games, race, and class. His first book project, Racial Recursivity: Play, Race, and Neoliberalism in Contemporary Video Games, creates a ludic-textual framework for reading video games as racial cultural projects. His work has appeared in the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds, The Comparatist, Popular Culture Review, and other outlets. He is currently is co-organizing a volume (with David Hall) that explores Japanese videogame perspectives on Western aesthetics. He received his PhD in English from Howard University in 2025.