Dr. Bo Ruberg, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine and the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Ruberg’s research explores gender and sexuality in digital media with a focus on LGBTQ issues in video games. They are the author of three books: Video Games Have Always Been Queer (NYU Press, 2019); The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games (Duke University Press, 2020), for which they received the 2021 Stonewall Book Award for Non-Fiction from the American Library Association; and Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies (MIT Press, 2022), for which they received the Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies. Ruberg is also the co-editor of multiple volumes and served as the lead organizer of the Queerness and Games Conference from 2013 to 2018.