Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling: The Dynamic Game Character (2023) by Joleen Blom. A Book Review

Authors

Gia Coturri Sorenson University of North Carolina at Greensboro https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8146-2021

Transmedia, Narrative, Characters, Video Games, gamevironments

A review of Joleen Blom's book Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling: The Dynamic Game Character (2023, Amsterdam University Press).

Gia Coturri Sorenson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Gia Coturri Sorenson is an instructor in the English Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the Assistant Director of the University Writing Center. She earned her PhD in nineteenth century British and American literature and environmental humanities from UNCG in 2020. Her dissertation examined how Romantic era historical fiction authors personify trees to encourage environmentalism. She teaches on environmental justice in literature and videogames as well as environmental advocacy, ecocriticism, and narrative. She serves as the English Department’s Videogame Studies liaison, helping develop new classes and train instructors, and advises undergraduate and graduate students working on interdisciplinary environmental projects.