The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy_ I Link Therefore I Am - Luke Cuddy [121]
JONATHAN FROME is an Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of Texas at Dallas. His research focuses on how media generate emotions. Instead of driving to work, he often glides through the air with a Deku leaf.
JAMES PAUL GEE is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University. He has published widely in the areas of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, literacy studies, and, most recently, video games and learning. Unlike Link, he is right handed (most of the time) and talks, but he does check his left hand each morning for a Triforce mark.
JOYCE C. HAVSTAD is a PhD student in the Philosophy Department as well as the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego. She usually remains in the Light Realm of philosophy of biology, bioethics, environmental ethics, and technology studies, but occasionally enjoys straying into the Dark Realm for some aesthetics, philosophy of film and television, cultural studies, and feminism.
CHARLES JOSHUA HORN is a graduate student in the doctoral program at the University of Kentucky. Joshua earned his BA in philosophy and government at Morehead State University. His interests range from ethical theory to political philosophy. Josh often wanders the local horse tracks in Kentucky, humming Epona’s song. It hasn’t worked yet, but he’s hopeful.
IRIS M. JAHNG has an MA in philosophy from San Diego State University. Her research interests are ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of science. She sometimes goes to small ponds with a whistle, hoping to find a stairway beneath the water.
ANNA B. JANNSEN can’t help but think of the great mysteries of life and death when she plays video games, macabre as it may sound. Partially because she dies in them so often, but partially because that’s the kind of gal she is. Drawing from her diverse interests and her post-graduate education in media, philosophy and publishing, Anna offers a map to these ancient, feuding philosophies, because it’s dangerous to go alone.
CARL MATTHEW JOHNSON, a beach bum based primarily out of Waikiki, has cleverly deceived friends and acquaintances into believing his self-stylings as a philosophy MA candidate and raconteur at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. From 2004 to 2006, he posed as an English teacher in distant Toyama prefecture, an area best known for heavy snows, cheap electricity, and a crippling bone disease called itai-itai byÿ (literally, “ouch-ouch disease”). Asked about his dreams, Carl remarked, “Oceans as far as the eye can see.”
DENNIS MILLARKER is a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Philosophy at Florida State University. He eagerly looks forward to attempting to write off his Wii as a business expense following the publication of this volume.
ROGER NGIM divides his time between the game world and the real world. A former writer, editor and arts critic, he earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and has exhibited work nationally and internationally. He’s an avid board gamer and has lectured on games and culture at the University of California at San Diego.
PETER RAUCH is an itinerant writer trying to be less itinerant. When he was a child, he stumbled upon a magical sword, and woke up to find he’d earned an SM in Comparative Media Studies from MIT. He’s particularly interested in how videogames embody ideologies in virtual worlds, and maintains a blog at undisciplinedtheory.blogspot.com.
RACHEL ROBISON is a graduate student in the philosophy department at UMass Amherst. She does research in metaphysics and epistemology, and has published papers in epistemology. When she goes clubbing in Hyrule her favorite dance is the ocarina (hey ocarina!).
LEE SHERLOCK is an MA student in Digital Rhetoric and Professional Writing at Michigan State