Patrick Jagoda’s research focuses on media theory, game studies and design, science studies, and 20th- and 21st-century American literature and culture. He designs transmedia, digital and analog games, including the climate change alternate reality game “Terrarium” (2019), which received the 2020 IndieCade award for the best Location Based and Live Play Design. His books include Network Aesthetics (2016), The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer (2016), Experimental Games (2020), and Transmedia Stories (2022). He is a recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship. Jagoda is the William Rainey Harper Professor of English Language and Literature, Cinema and Media Studies, and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Chicago. He also serves as the director of the Weston Game Lab and co-founder of the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab and Fourcast Lab.