Samantha Blackmon
- Associate Professor // English
- Affiliated Faculty // Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies // SIS
Research Focus
Computers and composition, African-American culture, lesbian and women's studies
Office and Contact
Room: SC 203
Email: blackmos@purdue.edu
Ph.D., Wayne State University, 2001
Biography
Samantha Blackmon is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition. Her research focuses on games as cultural critique and the intersections of race, gender, and technology in and around the games industry. She is a speaker and consultant who has worked with developers and platforms of all sizes. She is also a content creator as well as an anti-academic who has been featured in publications such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Verge as well as numerous podcasts and talk shows. Her work can be found in Feminist Media Histories, Computer Games and Technical Communication, CCC, Computers and Composition, JAC, and CEA Critic. She is the co-founder and host of the award-winning feminist game studies blog and podcast Not Your Mama’s Gamer, co-founder and co-curator of the Black Games Archive, a five time winner of Microsoft’s MVP Award, and the winner of the SIGDOC Rigo Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to the field of communication design in game design.