Carlos Kelly
Dr. Carlos Gabriel Kelly González (known to students as Profe) is a first-generation Mexican American specializing in US Latine media, gender, and critical game studies. He is an emerging scholar and one of the few Latine voices working to grow the field of video game studies through US Latine perspectives.
He works to infuse Latine ways of seeing into video game studies through borderland perspectives and lived/embodied experience. Carlos earned his Ph.D. from Ohio State University and is an Assistant Professor of English at Kennesaw State University. His book Ready Player Juan: Latinx Masculinities and Stereotypes in Video Games is the first book to deploy US Latine studies (via his embodied borderlands upbringing, border studies, and performance theory) to interrogate AAA action-adventure video games.
Currently, Carlos is thrilled to be co-editing the first-ever collection of Latinx video game studies, Coded Latinx: Latinx Gaming and Game Studies in North America, with Dr. Regina Marie Mills.
In addition to his research, Carlos is also a published performance poet with his 2019 debut collection, Wounds Fragments Derelict, published with 2Leaf Press.
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