Morgan Pinder

Hi! I’m researcher and PhD candidate at Deakin University based out of southern Wiradjuri country in Australia. I’m currently researching ecocritical approaches to video games.

My publications include ecocritical examinations of monstrous motherhood in the Resident Evil series and evil rabbits in film.

My most recent publications are “Monstrous Gatekeepers–Eco-gothic Bodies in Video Games” in Monsters and Monstrosity in Media: Reflections on Vulnerability  and “Negotiating Anthropocentrism and Ecologies in Cozy Games” in Replay: Polish Journal of Game Studies.

Other areas of research output:

• Transmedia gaming cultures and extremism
• Dating simulators
• Gender, environment and Metal Gear Solid
• Subjective player experience in video game research
• Transmedia ecogothic narratives
• Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos in video games
• Vegetal horror
• Science fiction and ecocriticism