Shira Chess

Shira Chess is author of The Unseen Internet: Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse (MIT Press, 2026), Play Like a Feminist (MIT Press, 2020), Ready Player Two: Women Gamers and Designed Identity (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), and co-author of Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man: The Development of an Internet Mythology (Palgrave, 2014).