Dr. Dom Ford
Dr. Dom Ford
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (PostDoc)
Gebäude: SpT C6205
Telefon: +49 421 218 67912
Email: domfordprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de
| Since 04/2023 | Postdoc, University of Bremen Member of ZeMKI |
| Since 04/2023 | Managing editor, gamevironments |
| Since 2020 | Editorial board, copyeditor and layout editor, Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture |
| 08/2019 – 11/2022 | PhD, Center for Digital Play, IT University of Copenhagen |
| 08/2018 – 06/2019 | Teaching Assistant, MSc Games, IT University of Copenhagen |
| 08/2017 – 06/2019 | MSc Games (Design and Theory), IT University of Copenhagen |
| 09/2015 – 09/2016 | MA English Literary Studies, University of Exeter |
| 09/2012 – 06/2015 | BA (Hons) English, University of Exeter |
Research interests: myth and games, religion and games, game communities, monsters, spatiality.
Current
Community Mythmaking in Digital Games, postdoc project
EliteForsk-rejsestipendium-funded project on mythology in games through space and national identity
Completed
PhD, Mytholudics: Understanding Games As/Through Myth
Journal Articles
Ford, D. (2021). The haunting of ancient societies in the Mass Effect trilogy and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Game Studies, 21(4). http://gamestudies.org/2104/articles/dom_ford
Ford, D. (2016). ‘eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate’: Affective writing of postcolonial history and education in Civilization V. Game Studies, 16(2). http://gamestudies.org/1602/articles/ford
Conference Papers
Ford, D. (2020). Giantness and excess in Dark Souls. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG ’20). FDG ’20: International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, Bugibba, Malta. https://doi.org/10.1145/3402942.3402966
Ford, D. (2020). Techno-giants: The giant, the machine and the human. Proceedings of the 2020 DiGRA International Conference: Play Everywhere. 2020 DiGRA International Conference, Tampere, Finland. http://www.digra.org/digital-library/publications/techno-giants-the-giant-the-machine-and-the-human/
Ford, D. (2019, August). Beyond the wall: The boundaries of the neomedieval town in singleplayer roleplaying games. Proceedings of the 2019 DiGRA International Conference: Game, Play and the Emerging Ludo-Mix. 2019 DiGRA International Conference: Game, Play and the Emerging Ludo-Mix, Kyoto, Japan. http://www.digra.org/digital-library/publications/beyond-the-wall-the-boundaries-of-the-neomedieval-town-in-singleplayer-roleplaying-games/
PhD Dissertation
Ford, D. (2022). Mytholudics: Understanding games as/through myth [Doctoral dissertation]. IT University of Copenhagen. https://domford.net/publication/ford-mytholudics-2022/
In preparation
Ford, D. & Blom, J. (forthcoming). “Honor died on the beach”: Constructing Japaneseness through Monstrosity in Ghost of Tsushima. In M. Meriläinen, J. Blom, L. Hassan, & S. Stang (Eds.), Monstrosity in contemporary game cultures and societies. Amsterdam University Press.
Ford, D. (forthcoming). Approaching FromSoftware Games as Myth. Proceedings of the 2023 DiGRA Nordic Conference. 2023 DiGRA Nordic Conference, Uppsala, Sweden.
Seminar: ‘Community Formation in Digital Games’
Seminar: ‘Ritual in Digital Games’
Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA)
‘Literatures and Media of Religions’ lab at the University of Bremen