Kelly I. / Crowley Aliano

Kelly I. Aliano is the author of Theatre of the Ridiculous: A Critical History and The Performance of Video Games, published by McFarland, Inc,. and of the forthcoming Immersive Storytelling. She holds a PhD in Theatre and currently serves as the Member-at-Large for Focus Group Representatives for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She works in the Education Department at New-York Historical Society and in the English Department at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York.

Adam Crowley is the author of The Wealth of Virtual Nations: Videogame Currencies (2017) and Representations of Poverty in Videogames (2022). His work has also appeared in edited collections on Resident Evil, the science-fiction western, and the Horizon Zero Dawn franchise. He lives in Bangor, Maine, where he works as a Professor of English and as the Associate Director of Online and Distance Education at Husson University.