Bo Ruberg, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. They are the author of three books: Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies (MIT Press, 2022), The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games (2020), and Video Games Have Always Been Queer (2019). They are also the coeditor of two volumes, Live Streaming Culture (MIT Press, 2023) and Queer Game Studies (University of Minnesota Press, 2017). In addition, Ruberg is the incoming coeditor-in-chief of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.