Our guest is Jonathan Alexander. He is a Professor of English and Campus Writing Director at the University of California, Irvine, CA. Prof. Alexander is the author of Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice of Composition Studies and Digital Youth: emerging Literacies on the World Wide Web; co-author of Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies and Argument Now: A Brief Rhetoric; and co-editor of Role Play: Distance Learning and the Teaching of Writing and Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others.

We discuss Prof. Alexander’s chapter “‘A Real Effect on the Gameplay’: Computer Gaming, Sexuality, and Literacy,” in Cynthia Selfe and Gail Hawisher Eds., Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century (Hounds Mills, UK: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007): 167-189.