Michael DeAnda

Dr. Michael Anthony DeAnda, a queer Tejano scholar-practitioner from El Paso, TX, is a professional lecturer in Game Design at DePaul University. He researches the intersections of games, queerness, and culture, considering the intimacies between LGBTQ and Latinaxo lived experiences and games. Using game design as research praxis, he develops games that draw comment on privileged structures, using intersectionality, queerness, and feminism as critical lenses. He earned a PhD in Technology and Humanities from Illinois Institute of Technology. Dr. DeAnda has published in Technical Communications Quarterly, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Video Game Art Reader, Queer Studies in Media, and Popular Culture and Widerscreens.