Bonnie Ruberg (Berkeley)

Bonnie Ruberg is a PhD student at the University of California at Berkeley, where she studies comparative literature and new media, and specializes in representations of “perversion” through language – both literary and digital. She has also worked as a video game and tech journalist for publications like The Village Voice and The Economist, covering everything from female monsters in Resident Evil to prostitution in Second Life to lesbian imagery in Portal.

Bonnie opens the Gotland Game Conference with a keynote talk on interpreting videogames like litterature and other art forms.