Becoming, Circumstances and Practice: A CollectiveBiography of 3 Games Lecturers

Becoming a Game Studies lecturer.What is the point?We work in a field that is interdisciplinary (Deterding 2017).Yet, the ways in which our field is imagined can be relatively narrow -as in the recent UK Video Games Research Framework (UK DfCMS 2023).Here, we focus on the relationships between teaching Game Studies and the field.Ongoing questions about the field are one reason why it is important to continue to reflect on what we are doing, and why.In this paper, three games lecturers, collectively reflect on our teaching practices as a form of 'cultural work' (Freire 2005), constituting and cultivating the future of Game Studies.