Robyn Hope, PhD

Publications

Hope, Robyn (2025). “Bunker wombs, open worlds, and other post-apocalyptic containers”. Critical Studies in Media Communication.

Hope, Robyn (2024). “Pathologic 2 and the Phenomenology of Illness”. In Playthrough as Method. Ed. Milena Droumeva. Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press.

Hope, Robyn (2023). “Games Done Quick, Organizational Presence, and Speedrunning Identity”. In Real Life in Real Time: Live Streaming Culture. Eds. Johanna Brewer, Bo Ruberg,  Christopher Persaud, Amanda Cullen. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Hope, Robyn (2021). “Critical Role and Audience Impact on Tabletop Roleplay.” In Watch Us Roll: Essays on Actual Play and Performance. Ed. Shelly Jones. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company.

Hope, Robyn (2020). “Texts and Turnabouts: Analyzing the Words of Ace Attorney.” In What is a Game? Essays on the Nature of Videogames. Ed. Gaines S. Hubbell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company

Hope, Robyn. (2018). “The Magnificent Memory Machine: The Nancy Drew Series and Female History”,  in Kishonna L. Gray, Gerald Voorhees, Emma Vossen. (eds.) Feminism in Play. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave MacMillan.

Video Essays

Hope, Robyn. July 27, 2024. Pathologic 2 and the Phenomenology of Illness. Part of the Playthrough as Method project, Ed. Milena Droumeva. Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuXhee_ZnwE

Conference Presentations

2024. Panelist. “Wombs for the End of the World: The Discursive Role of Doomsday Bunkers”. On ‘(De)containing Games’. Canadian Game Studies Association Annual Conference.

2024. Roundtable Panelist. “Games Done Quick and Speedrunner Identities”. On ‘Live Streaming Culture.’ Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference,

2023. Panelist. “Counting Blessings: The Quantification of Ability and Disability in Fantasy”. On ‘Troubling Diversity and Monstrosity: Discrimination in Fantasy and Roleplaying Games.’ Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference.

2022. Panelist. “Speedrunning and the Tracking Aesthetic”. Communications, Rhetoric and Digital Media Research Symposium, ‘Infrastructures and/as Anti-Colonialism.”  March 25, 2022.

Teaching

Environmental Ethics: Fall 2019 (Online), Spring 2020 (Online), Fall 2023, Spring 2024

Introduction to Humanities and Social Sciences: Fall 2020 (Online), Spring 2021 (Online)

Media History and Theory: Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2023

Game Studies: Spring 2022, Spring 2023

Communication Media in a Changing World: Summer 2022

Guest Lecture: Masculinity and Bunkers as Domestic Technology. York University, October 23, 2024. For Race, Gender and Digital Technology, prof. Rianka Singh.

Guest Lecture: Narrative Architecture in Apocalyptic Games. University of Toronto Missisauga, October 25, 2024. For Game Writing and Narrative Design, prof. Christine Tran.

Professional Development & Workshops

2025. Participant. Labs for Liberation Summer Institute on Disability and Design. Directors: Moya Bailey and Aimi Hamraie

2021. Panelist. “How Make Book Go: Getting Started with Publishing” Communications, Rhetoric and Digital Media colloquium, professional development presentation. October 28, 2021.

2019. Workshop Participant. Inclusive Streaming Workshop, University of California, Irvine. Director: Bo Ruberg

Research Assistantships and Fellowships

2020. Collective knowledge (literature review). Assistant to Dr. Jean Goodwin

2017. Assorted Ethnographic Projects. Assistant to Dr. Mia Consalvo

2016. Centre of Excellence. Assistant to Dr. Mia Consalvo

2014-2015. Jackman Humanities Institute Undergraduate Research Fellowship: Humour, Play, and Games.