Andrei Nae

Andrei Nae (zie/zir) is Lecturer at the University of Bucharest, Associate Lecturer at the IL Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film, and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. Zie teaches courses in game studies and seminars in twentieth-century and contemporary English literature. Zir main research interest lies at the intersection of game studies, cultural studies, and narratology. So far zie has been involved in several research projects, the most important being “Colonial Discourse in Video Games,” where zie held the position of principal investigator. Zir most relevant publications include the monograph Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games published by Routledge in 2021, the article “From Saviour to Colonial Perpetrator: Manipulating Player Empathy in Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill Origins” featured in the 2022 special issue “Gaming and Affect” hosted by Parallax, as well as the upcoming collective volume Video Games between Postcolonialism and Postcommunism that will be published by De Gruyter in 2025.