Derek A. Burrill is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Die Tryin’: Videogames, Masculinity, Culture (2008) and The Other Guy: Media Masculinity Within the Margins (2014), as well as essays in a variety of journals and anthologies. He currently sits in the editorial board of Games & Culture and the Journal of Games and Virtual Worlds