TTRPG Scholars
People doing/who have done academic work (research, teaching, and so on) around tabletop role-playing games, actual play (AP), and more (broadly defined, intersecting with board games, card games, LARP, etc.).
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@carolinethegeek.bsky.social
@celestes-psych.bsky.social
clinical psychologist | research faculty at RIT | research: building DTx games to for mental health skills, esp self-regulation, cognitive, & communication skills | advocate & educator on games research, DTx, and mental health in all games
@hadeeljeanne.com
Historian. Researching niche online communities, collective memory, and childhood. Lover of archives, haver of fun.
@dochib.bsky.social
PhD in rhetoric. He/they and transmasc. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech. Writing, TTRPGs, Archiving, Fiber Arts, Podcasts, and Cats.
@chellemcmullin.bsky.social
Academic, games, rhetoric, tech comm, Ghostbusters and Real Genius Quotes
@drjags.bsky.social
Views are mine, unless retweets. Posts about wpalife, ttrpgs, trans rights, cats & random observations.
@kierancutting.bsky.social
Transforming futures of relationships, power, and work at fractals co-op. Researcher, designer, facilitator, writer, poet, games designer. Former indie publisher at EXIT Press. they/them
@culliope.bsky.social
PhD, Middle school teacher, ttrpg researcher and academic. Cat, rabbit and teen wrangler. Living that rural NH life. Tabletopedu.org or culliopescauldron.com.
@wanderingshrink.bsky.social
PsyD | Connecting gaming and psychology | Your friendly goth psychologist https://linktr.ee/wanderingshrink
@magesandmentors.bsky.social
Cube! MTG and SWU are my main games at the moment.
@sparksforsharks.bsky.social
@adamjohns.bsky.social
Founder of Game to Grow. Marriage and Family therapist specializing in seeing geeks and gamers in therapy. Co-Host of The Next Session Podcast.
@rollforkindness.bsky.social
Autistic self advocate and disability nonprofit specialist in the Seattle area. International speaker, published author on autistic socialization. Running advocacy focused TTRPG groups for autistics for 11 years. He/Him. Bi/pan. Rollforkindness.com
@snapdragoness.bsky.social
She/her. 📚 Associate Professor of Human-Centred Computing @ Monash University 🎮 Researching trans gaming and disaster response (unrelatedly) 🌟 STA Superstar of STEM 🐉 Ancient D&D nerd 🎶 Metalhead I like dragons and corvids. Opinions are my own.
@shannonappelcline.bsky.social
Author of the DESIGNERS & DRAGONS series of RPG histories, including THIS IS FREE TRADER BEOWULF: A SYSTEM HISTORY OF TRAVELLER. Science-fiction, fantasy, comic, and RPG fan.
@lucasjmaxwell.bsky.social
Librarian. Author. D&D Dungeon Master. Winner of the Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition. https://linktr.ee/lucasjmaxwell
@meganpsyd.bsky.social
Psychologist, cofounder of both Health Quest Innovative Therapeutics and Geeks Like Us. Author of Tabletop Role-Playing Therapy the Guide for the Clinician Game Master. I talk psychology and TTRPGs. Opinions are my own.
@increment.bsky.social
Author of game histories, mostly wargames and role-playing games. Playing at the World, Elusive Shift, Game Wizards, Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana, Making of OD&D, Heroes’ Feast, etc.
@illmare.bsky.social
UK-based game-maker, writer, university researcher and Green Party member. manchestergamecentre.org Tabletop Games, LARP, TTRPG, Horror, Gothic, Weird, Fantastika, Environmental Philosophy. Find stuff at frankandalex.itch.io and over at academia.edu.
@persephone.blue
🔥 ludoarsonist 🕹️ media scholar 🎮 game maker AP of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. Dir. @ https://darcmode.org + https://triptable.top. 🔍 trans play 🏳️⚧️ TRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨ 🌐 https://persephone.blue 🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io
@playingresearch.bsky.social
📚 PhD student on informal learning & fiction in board games 🎓 Experice lab (Sorbonne Paris Nord university) 📢 Ex research fellow at Game in Lab 💬 they/them Own opinions in 🇬🇧 & 🇫🇷
@edmondchang.bsky.social
Teacher. Writer. Gamer. Associate Professor of English at Ohio University. Scholar of literature, games, & pop culture. Author of Tellings RPG & Archaea LARP.
@gregisonthego.bsky.social
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/central-michigan-university-press/keep-the-faith?ref=Gbsky Game designer (Ahoy, 2022; Bloc by Bloc: Uprising, 2022 w/ T.L. Simons; Keep the Faith, 2025). Asst.Prof. Game Studies & Game Design @HarrisburgU
@rosgakori.bsky.social
PHD student at Tampere University Game Research Lab. Freelance writer. Feminist. Antifascist. Warhammer hobbyist. Poly Lesbian. Part-time Mancunian. Likes might contain spice. She/Her 🏳️⚧️ 33 https://medium.com/@aasa.timonen4 https://throne.com/aasat
@jennsutcliffe.bsky.social
Ed Psych/Tech Ph.D. student, MSU | Instructional Designer | TTRPG writer/designer, @ImmaterialPlane | Georgia (US) Wikimedia affiliate rep | Research: Game studies, social learning, learning communities, digital literacies ~ she/her
@pfwgames.bsky.social
UK academic researching games and the environment. Writing book on Blood Bowl. Co-director of the Manchester Game Centre.
@emnk.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ Howard Explores how people imagined themselves in the past & how we (mis)remember them. I’ve a book on #c18 representations of the Ottomans, articles on Black Britons, teach gender/sexuality, & talk games with @friede.bsky.social
@anterobot.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Stanford University. NCTE President Elect. Education. Speculative Imagination. Healing. Dad of twins. he/him/his lacuenta.substack.com
@nicklalone.com
I research disaster, geospatial concerns, and history of technology at RIT. Will talk about games, tech, policy, history, social theory, and the politics of all those things. I am less diffuse than I seem. https://nicklalone.com/
@easays.bsky.social
It’s a double first name! genderqueerfemme crip they/she studiatrix of all things disability, queer/trans, 18th and 19th century, and TTRPG.
@shellyjones.bsky.social
English Prof. Editor at https://analoggamestudies.org/ Writer, gamer, nature nerd. BLM Player Elimination out Aug 27 - Available for pre-order now. Updates at: https://shellyjonesauthor.com/
@dashiellsteven.bsky.social
Research Asst Prof at Morgan State University - social scientist who studies discourse, masculinity, and disparities, specifically in male-dominated subcultures (like game communities and social media). Army veteran. UMBC grad.
@onlyplaywizards.com
📖UC Merced writing professor & TTRPG Educator 🚀 @AbraxasPrecipic.bsky.social #TheExpanse #RPG 👕 @CauldronNTower.bsky.social 📚Academic Librarian 🎼Vinyl collector 📝Dysgraphic linktr.ee/onlyplaywizards
@jamiemadigan.bsky.social
My book about the psychology of Dungeons & Dragons is out! See www.psychologyofdnd.com. I'm also the author of Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games. I write and podcast at www.psychologyofgames.com
@melissainau.bsky.social
#academicsky HCI: boardgames & hybrids, interaction, evaluation, distanced play. Play. IGA Jury. OMG. Spiel. Shoes. Handbags. Random rants. This is all me, not work official. Dr. She.
@drtanenbaum.bsky.social
🦋 Moth Mother Music 📖 Ex-Academic(ish)🎓 Professor of Anarchy 🎵 Songwriter and Composer 🎮 Game Designer 📚 Storyteller 🧹 Witch 🪶Poet ♿ Disabled 🌶️ Neurospicy! 🏳️⚧️ Extremely Dangerous Trans Rights Activist https://linktr.ee/MothMother
@adriiadventures.com
she/they 🇸🇻 writing and studying rpgs 🎮 finally a phd candidate 😵💫
@jaakkostenros.bsky.social
Scholar of games and play, author or editor of eleven books, into comic books, role-playing games, and art. Website: https://jaakkostenros.wordpress.com/ Email: jaakko.stenros (at) tuni.fi
@scottdejong.bsky.social
Making and studying games about disinformation. Fulbright scholar. PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar. scottbdejong.ca
@emwalz.bsky.social
She/her. Researcher/Lecturer at UCI. Editor-at-large @AnalogGameJrnl. Writing a book on ASMR. Occasional posts on tv, film, theater, & games. (opinions my own)
@noizangel.bsky.social
aspiring Doctor of D&D, but not how you think @ YorkU • coined 'D&D industrial complex' • STS/Communications • recovering larp burnout • i love pizza and cats noizangel: literally everywhere https://linktr.ee/nicolewinchester she/her/any/all 🇨🇦🇫🇮🌈
@mariakalberto.bsky.social
PhD English '24, University of Utah | she/her 🏳️🌈 | 📚 pop culture, #fanstudies, DH, Tolkien | diss: D&D, canon, & drow | header by galxrax (Unsplash)
@anitchang.bsky.social
Professor Univ. of Bonn. Director at FIW 🏛🌎🎓 and Study of Religion (he/him). Religion/cultural studies/documentary film/Southeast Asia/TTRPGs.
@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social
Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
@aarontram.bsky.social
Anyone who ever had a heart, they wouldn't turn around and break it. Anyone who every played a part, they wouldn't turn around and hate it.
@doctorkilmer.bsky.social
Qualitative Researcher with Take This. Clinical psychologist using games in therapy. Opinions are all mine. (she/they)
@friede.bsky.social
Storyteller about storytellers. 18th century to today & beyond. Associate Professor of English Words at Polygon, LA Review of Books, more. Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (on #TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance) www.ecfriedman.com
@carolinethegeek.bsky.social
PhD. youth+tech+community+design researcher, UW iSchool Postdoc, TTRPG-er, moderator/ModSquid🦑, enjoyer of things. She/her. Profile pic by Ari! Yes, I'm here. On the job market!