Part1: Ludic and Narrative Intertextuality.

1. Heather Hess. Powerful Innocence: George MacDonald's Legacy in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

2. Lin Young. Silence by (Game) Design: Shapeshifting and Assimilation in “The Little Mermaid” and The Wolf Among Us.

3. Jesse Gauthier & Ian Clark. Futurity and the Death Drive in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014)

4. Felipe Espinoza Garrido. Race, Gender, and Reparative Revisions in Lauren Woolbright and Marie Jarrell’s Videogame Sequel Blood of the Vampire.


Part2: Genre and Character (re)Creation.

5. Zoe Eddy. ‘Her beauty was blinding': Amnesia: Justine as Sensation Fiction.

6. Shannon Payne. The Pastoral Reimagined in Stardew Valley.

7. Mimi Okabe. London Detective Mysteria: A Case Study on the Limitations and Potentials of the Otome Detective in Japanese neo-Victorian Video Games.

8. Rachel Friars. Queering the Neo-Victorian Video Game: Intrigues at the Boarding School.


Part3: Navigation, Colonization, Exploration.

9. Holly Wiegand. 80 Days, 80 Plays: Victorian Novelty and Narrative Replayability of Inkle Studio’s 80 Days.

10. Travis Hay. The Return of Franklin’s Lost Expedition: Virtual Victorians and Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit in Three Recent Video Games.

11. Brooke Cameron. Autistic Masking in Wuthering Heights and Little Nightmares II

12. Kelsey G. Quinn. “I caught a frog! Or it’s a new neighbor…and I have some apologizing to do.”: Victorian Species in Animal Crossing: New Horizons


Part4: Science, Systems, Technologies.

13. David A. Smith. Fragments of Time, Technological Ghosts, and Gothic Narratives in Horizon: Zero Dawn.

. Blood and Blackness in FromSoftware’s Bloodborne

15. Melissa Kagen & Jennifer Minnen. Dangerous Collecting in Strange Horticulture.

16. Mattia Belli &, Francesca Arnavas. The Post-Human, Metamorphic Body of Pinocchio: Lies of P and Its Victorian Influences.