Graduate Student Lunch & Learn with Dr. Emily Friedman

Join Dr. Emily Friedman for an intimate conversation about the writing (and publishing) in academic that happens above the table and what to focus on at the table. In other words, spend the lunch hour with Dr. Friedman talking about "what to publish, when."

Emily C. Friedman teaches courses on British literature, book history, games, and playful media. Trained as a book historian, narratologist, and digital humanist, her work examines the history of cultural production outside of commercial mass media from the eighteenth century to today, from never-published manuscript fiction to analog games. Now one of the senior scholars and public intellectuals in the field of "Actual Play," a new media form where roleplaying games are performed for audiences, her research on the topic has appeared in multiple academic books and journals, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and the game media site Polygon. Her next book, The Actual History of Actual Play, is forthcoming from MIT Press, and she is at work on a book on the comic and roleplaying game DIE for University of Michigan Press, a multiauthored critical companion to major Actual Play Dimension 20, and future work on microcelebrity and "nerd fame". In 2026-27 she is in residence in Washington, DC as the Public Humanities Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

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