Kathryn Fedchun

Biography

Kathryn Fedchun (she/her) is a PhD candidate at Carleton University in the School of Journalism and Communication. She completed her undergraduate degree in sociology and philosophy at Queen’s University in 2015. She received a diploma from the Assaulted Women and Children’s Counsellor and Advocate (AWCCA) program at George Brown College in 2017. She then worked for two years as a counsellor in a women’s shelter. In 2020, she received a master’s degree in sociology with a specialization in gender studies from the University of Ottawa—her thesis looked at masculinity, failure, and subversive play in the video game League of Legends. She has been a Fellow at the Research on Comics, Con Events, and Transmedia Laboratory (RoCCET Lab) since 2020. Her dissertation focuses on the Queer Games Bundles released on the independent gaming platform itch.io every year during Pride month as affective, archived snapshots of a queer, indie game scene. She is generally interested in queer theory, game studies, comic studies, & affective media.

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