Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
Purdue University | Department of English | 500 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47906
biancabatti.com | bbatti@purdue.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English – Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Expected 2019
Primary: Literary Studies
Secondary: American Literature from 1940 to the Present, Feminist Game Studies
Graduate Concentration: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Dissertation: Worldbuilding in Feminist Game Studies: Toward a Methodology of
Disruption
Committee: Samantha Blackmon (co-chair), Marlo David (co-chair), John Duvall, and
Cheryl Cooky
PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed:
Batti, Bianca. “Something’s Not Right: Monstrous Motherhood and Traumatic Survival in
Among the Sleep.” The Popular Culture Studies Journal (under review).
Batti, Bianca and Jasmine R. Linabury. “‘Are you okay?’: Online Harassment and
Cyberstalking.” Communication and Social Media: Case Studies Across Personal and
Professional Relationships (forthcoming).
Linabury, Jasmine R. and Bianca Batti. “‘Should I Even Be Writing This?’: Public Narratives
and Resistance to Online Harassment.” Gender Hate Online: Understanding the New
Anti-Feminism, Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming).
Batti 1
Karabinus, Alisha and Bianca Batti. “Game Review: Her Story.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric,
Technology, and Pedagogy, 2016.
Batti, Bianca. “Speaking from Beyond the Grave: Abjection and the Maternal Corpses of
William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Suzan-Lori Parks’s Getting Mother’s Body.”
Absent Mothers, edited by Frances Greenslade, Demeter Press, 2017.
Middle-State Publications:
Not Your Mama’s Gamer, Staff Writer and Bi-Weekly Podcaster; More than 60 published
pieces, including:
• “Feminist Science Fiction, Video Games, and Reimagining the Role of the Mother”
• “The Power of the Fathers: Patriarchal Fatherhood and Oppressed Daughterhood
in The Last of Us”
• “Until Dawn: On Representation, the Horror Genre, and the Illusion of Choice”
“The Experience of Embodiment: Video Games Are Better With Stories.” With Alisha
Karabinus, Meaningful Play, East Lansing, MI. Forthcoming, October 2018.
“Teaching with Games in Writing-Intensive Courses.” With Alisha Karabinus. Purdue Writing
Showcase, West Lafayette, IN. April 2018.
“Teaching with Games.” With Alisha Karabinus. Introductory Composition at Purdue Brown
Bag, West Lafayette, IN. February 2018.
Batti 2
“Whose Story? Reflections on Two Years of Teaching Her Story and Composing Through
Play.” Ball State Symposium on Games in Academia, Muncie, IN. November 2017.
“Anita Then and Now: Tracing Gender Incredulity from Physical to Digital Spaces.” Console-
ing Passions, Greenville, NC, July 2017.
“Video Games, Interface, and the Gaze: What Does it Mean to See/Play and Be
Seen/Played?” Extending Play 3, New Brunswick, NJ. September 2016.
“Gaming Narratives: Bridging Literature, Rhetoric & Composition, and Second Language
Writing.” With Alisha Karabinus and Ashley J. Velázquez. Computers and Writing,
Rochester, NY. May 2016.
Guest Lecture, Dr. Cheryl Cooky’s WGSS 280: Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies course. April 2015.
“In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream: Gender Roles and Survival Narratives in the Space
Horror of Alien: Isolation.” Popular Culture Association / American Culture
Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA. April 2015.
“Subaltern Cannibalism: Power Relations and Identity Politics in World War Z.” Intersections
Conference at California State University, Northridge. Northridge, CA. March 2014.
“‘The Last Hope for Humanity Rests on a High-Powered Machine Gun’: Challenging Gender
Roles within the Zombie Genre of Planet Terror.” Far West Popular and American
Culture Association’s 24th Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, NV. February 2012.
Batti 3
“Introduction to the Zombie Genre.” Guest Lecture, Dr. William Nericcio’s ENGL 220:
Introduction to Literature course. October 2011.
Honorable Mention for the 2018 Berenice A. Carroll Feminism, Peace, and Social Justice
Award
Purdue University, April 2018
Second Place in the Kneale Award for Theory and Cultural Studies in Purdue University’s
87th Annual Literary Awards Contest
Purdue University, April 2018
Batti 4
the Creativity and Technology Learning Community, English 223: Literature and
Technology
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Popular Culture Association (PCA)
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
International Game Developers Association (IGDA)
COURSEWORK
REFERENCES
Samantha Blackmon
Associate Professor of English
Purdue University
Batti 5
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907
blackmos@purdue.edu
(765) 494-3742
Marlo David
Associate Professor of English, African American Studies, and Women's, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies
Director of African American Studies
Purdue University
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907
mdavid@purdue.edu
(765) 494-4177
Irwin Weiser
Professor of English
Purdue University
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907
iweiser@purdue.edu
(765) 494-3740
Batti 6