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Bianca Batti Curriculum Vitae Website
Bianca Batti Curriculum Vitae Website
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English – Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 2019
Primary: Literary Studies
Secondary: American Literature from 1940 to the Present, Feminist Game Studies,
Feminist Science Fiction Studies, Feminist New Media Studies
Graduate Concentration: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Dissertation: Worldbuilding in Feminist Game Studies: Toward a Methodology of
Disruption (Defended April 10, 2019)
Committee: Samantha Blackmon (co-chair), Marlo David (co-chair), John Duvall, and
Cheryl Cooky
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship 2019
Georgia Institute of Technology
Writing and Communication Program
School of Literature, Media, and Communication
PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed:
Batti, Bianca. “Feminist Worldbuilding: Intersectional Methodologies in Feminist SF Criticism
and Feminist Game Studies.” TransMissions: Journal of Film and Media, vol. 2, no. 2,
2018, pp. 30-46.
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---. “The Past, Present, and Future of Game Studies: An Interview with Janet Murray.”
Historiographies of Game Studies: Where It Has Been, What It Could Be, edited by
Cody Mejeur, et al., forthcoming.
---. “Something’s Not Right: Monstrous Motherhood and Traumatic Survival in Among the
Sleep.” The Popular Culture Studies Journal, vol. 6, no. 2 & 3, 2018, pp. 399-419.
---. “Speaking from Beyond the Grave: Abjection and the Maternal Corpses of William
Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Suzan-Lori Parks’s Getting Mother’s Body.” Absent
Mothers, edited by Frances Greenslade, Demeter Press, 2017.
---. “‘What’s real is family’: Maternal Bodies, Paternal Labor, and Parenting Roles in the Fast
and Furious Franchise.” Full-Throttle Franchise: The Culture, Commerce and Ideology
of The Fast and the Furious Films, edited by Joshua Gulam, et al., Bloomsbury,
forthcoming.
Batti, Bianca and Jasmine R. Linabury. “‘Are you okay?’: Online Harassment and
Cyberstalking.” Communication and Social Media: Case Studies Across Personal and
Professional Relationships. Oxford UP, 2019.
Karabinus, Alisha and Bianca Batti. “Game Review: Her Story.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric,
Technology, and Pedagogy, vol. 21, no. 2, 2016.
---. “The Experience of Embodiment: Video Games Are Better With Stories.” Proceedings of
Meaningful Play 2018 , ETC Press, 2019.
Linabury, Jasmine R. and Bianca Batti. “‘Should I Even Be Writing This?’: Public Narratives
and Resistance to Online Harassment.” Gender Hate Online: Understanding the New
Anti-Feminism, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Smith, Allegra, Libby Chernouski, Bianca Batti, Alisha Karabinus, and Bradley Dilger. “People,
Programs, & Practices: A Grid-Based Approach to Designing and Supporting Online
Writing Curriculum.” PARS in Practice, edited by Jessie Borgman and Casey McArdle,
WAC Clearinghouse, 2021.
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Burnett, Rebecca, Bianca Batti, Alexandra Edwards, Andy Frazee, Krystin Gollihue, Steve
Hodges, Courtney Hoffman, Darcy Mullen, McKenna Rose, and Wendy Truran.
“Online Teaching in Response to COVID19: Georgia Tech’s Writing and
Communication Program and the School of Literature, Media, and Communication.”
Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020.
Burnett, Rebecca, Bianca Batti, Andy Frazee, Courtney Hoffman, and McKenna Rose. A WCP
Teaching Guide: Creating Remote Courses for Summer 2020. Georgia Institute of
Technology, 2020.
Middle-State Publications:
TECHStyle, Editor and Staff Writer; published pieces that include:
• “7 Brittain Fellows Reflect on Antiracist Pedagogy”
• “Brittain Fellows Reflect on Teaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
(forthcoming)
Not Your Mama’s Gamer, Bi-Weekly Podcaster and Staff Writer of more than 60 published
pieces that include:
• “Feminist Science Fiction, Video Games, and Reimagining the Role of the Mother”
• “Clone Club: Motherhood and Technology in Orphan Black and Horizon Zero
Dawn”
• “The Power of the Fathers: Patriarchal Fatherhood and Oppressed Daughterhood
in The Last of Us”
• “Until Dawn: On Representation, the Horror Genre, and the Illusion of Choice”
“Remote Teaching Workshop: Creating Online Accessibility, Online Activities, and Online
Community.” New Brittain Fellow Onboarding Orientation, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, GA. August 2020.
“Remote Teaching Workshop: Creating Online Accessibility, Online Activities, and Online
Community.” Writing and Communication Program, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, GA. June 2020.
“Introduction to Night of the Living Dead.” Science Fiction Virtual Watch Party. Georgia
Tech Library, Atlanta, GA. May 2020.
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“Teaching Her Story: Integrating Games in First Year Composition Assignments.” With
Alisha Karabinus, Digital Praxis Poster Presentation, Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Pittsburgh, PA. March 2019.
“The Experience of Embodiment: Video Games Are Better With Stories.” With Alisha
Karabinus, Meaningful Play, East Lansing, MI. October 2018.
“Teaching with Games in Writing-Intensive Courses.” With Alisha Karabinus. Purdue Writing
Showcase, West Lafayette, IN. April 2018.
“Teaching with Games.” With Alisha Karabinus. Introductory Composition at Purdue Brown
Bag, West Lafayette, IN. February 2018.
“Whose Story? Reflections on Two Years of Teaching Her Story and Composing Through
Play.” Ball State Symposium on Games in Academia, Muncie, IN. November 2017.
“Anita Then and Now: Tracing Gender Incredulity from Physical to Digital Spaces.” Console-
ing Passions, Greenville, NC, July 2017.
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“Video Games, Interface, and the Gaze: What Does it Mean to See/Play and Be
Seen/Played?” Extending Play 3, New Brunswick, NJ. September 2016.
“Gaming Narratives: Bridging Literature, Rhetoric & Composition, and Second Language
Writing.” With Alisha Karabinus and Ashley J. Velázquez. Computers and Writing,
Rochester, NY. May 2016.
Guest Lecture, Dr. Cheryl Cooky’s WGSS 280: Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies course. April 2015.
“In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream: Gender Roles and Survival Narratives in the Space
Horror of Alien: Isolation.” Popular Culture Association / American Culture
Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA. April 2015.
“Subaltern Cannibalism: Power Relations and Identity Politics in World War Z.” Intersections
Conference at California State University, Northridge. Northridge, CA. March 2014.
“‘The Last Hope for Humanity Rests on a High-Powered Machine Gun’: Challenging Gender
Roles within the Zombie Genre of Planet Terror.” Far West Popular and American
Culture Association’s 24th Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, NV. February 2012.
“Introduction to the Zombie Genre.” Guest Lecture, Dr. William Nericcio’s ENGL 220:
Introduction to Literature course. October 2011.
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Group to plan, draft, edit, and revise the unit nomination for the Diversity Champion Award,
2020.
Honorable Mention, 2018 Berenice A. Carroll Feminism, Peace, and Social Justice Award
Purdue University, April 2018
Second Place, Kneale Award for Theory and Cultural Studies in Purdue University’s 87th
Annual Literary Awards Contest
Purdue University, April 2018
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA)
National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)
Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association (PCA/ACA)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
COURSEWORK
Literary Study in a Multicultural World Modernism and Psychoanalysis
Literary Theory and Critical Practice Visual Culture and Visual Theory
20th C. American Children’s Literature Feminist Theory
Gender, Sexuality, and Chicano Literature Feminism in/and Popular Culture
Literature of the South Issues in Feminist Research and
Prose Poetry and Flash Fiction Methodology
Theory of Film Introduction to Graduate Study
Contemporary American Fiction Theory and Practice of Teaching
Video Games and Narrative Design Composition
Bad Mothers in American Literature Gender, Rhetoric, and the Body
American Literature/Culture, 1820-1860 Computers, Language, and Rhetoric
Literature Seminar: Shel Silverstein Digital Pedagogy
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