Faculty and Staff

Selected Publications

Books

• Salter, A. Stanfill, M. (October 2020). A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy: Gendered Authorship in Transmedia Franchises. University of Mississippi Press.

• Reed, A; Murray, J; Salter, A. (February 2020). Adventure Games: Playing the Outsider. Bloomsbury Press: New York. 
• Salter, A., & Blodgett, B. (2017). Toxic Geek Masculinity in Media: Sexism, Trolling, and Identity Policing. Palgrave Macmillan.

• Salter, A. (2017). Jane Jensen: Gabriel Knight, Adventure Games, Hidden Objects. Bloomsbury Academic Press.

• Salter, A. (November 2014). What is Your Quest? From Adventure Games to Interactive Books. University of Iowa Press. 

• Salter, A. and Murray, J. (September 2014). Flash: Building the Interactive Web. Platform Studies Series, MIT Press.

Edited Collections

• Boluk, S.; Flores, L.; Garbe, J.; Salter, A. (2016). The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 3. The Electronic Literature Organization. (Collection features over 100 works of electronic literature from around the world, editors listed alphabetically.)

Articles/Essays

• Salter, A. (2020). “#NostalgiaGate? Comics as Battleground in Transmedia Networked Publics.” In ImageText: Interdisciplinary Comic Studies special forum ImageTech: Comics and Materiality. Vol 11.3. 
• Salter, A. (2020) "Plundered Hearts: Infocom, Romance, and the History of Feminist Game Design." Feminist Media Histories, Vol 6:1, Winter 2020: 66-92. <https://fmh.ucpress.edu/content/6/1/66>.
• Salter, A. (2019). "#RelationshipGoals? Suicide Squad and Fandom’s Love of 'Problematic' Men." Television & New Media. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476419879916
• Winter, R. and Salter, A. (2019). "DeepFakes: Uncovering hardcore open source on GitHub." Porn Studies Journal. <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23268743.2019.1642794> 
• Salter, A.; Whitson, R.; Helms, J. (2018). “Making comics as scholarship: A reflection on the process behind DHQ 9.4.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 23(1).  
• Blodgett, B.; Salter, A. (2018). “Ghostbusters is For Boys: Understanding Geek Masculinity’s Role in the Alt-right.” Communication Culture & Critique, 11(1), 133-146. 
• Salter, A.(2017). "Taking Over the World, Again? Examining Procedural Remakes of Adventure Games." Well Played Volume 6. No. 3. <http://press.etc.cmu.edu/index.php/product/well-played-vol-6-no-3/>
• Salter, A. (2017). “Code before Content? Brogrammer Culture in Games and Electronic Literature.” Hyperhiz: New Media Cultures 17. <http://hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz17/>.
• Watson, K. and Salter, A. (2016). "Playing Art Historian: Teaching 20th Century Art through Alternate Reality Gaming." International Journal for the Scholarship of Technology Enhanced Learning 1.1. 
• Salter, A. (2015). "Alice in Dataland 2.0." Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 20(1).
• Salter, A. (2015). "Learning through Making: Notes on Teaching Interactive Narrative." Syllabus Journal, 4.1.

Book Sections/Chapters

• Salter, A. (2020). “Virtual Farmer, Real Activist? Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang’s In Real Life.” EcoComix: Essays on the Environment in Comics and Graphic Novels. Edited by Sidney Dobrin. McFarland Press.

• Salter, A. (2020). "Gendered Authorship in War Gaming: Whose Fantasy is it Anyways?" Feminist War Games?: Mechanisms of War, Feminist Values, and Interventional Games. Edited by Saklofske, J., Arbuckle, A., & Bath, J. (Eds.). Routledge.
• Blodgett, B.; Salter, A. (2019). “What Was Missing: Children’s Queerbaiting and Homoromantic Exclusion in Adventure Time and Steven Universe.” Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fandom Fans Through Homoerotic Possibilities. Edited by Joseph Brennan. The University of Iowa Press.
• Salter, A. (2019). “Collaborative Voices: Kate Pullinger’s Digital Authorial Voice.” The Digital Imaginary. Edited by Roderick Coover. Bloomsbury Press.
• Salter, A. (2019). “Dead Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo: Supernatural and the Disposable Other.” Death in Supernatural: Critical Essays. Edited by Amanda Taylor and Susan Nylander. McFarland Press. (Peer reviewed)
• Salter, A. (2019). “King’s Quest: Narrative” Invited chapter for How to Play Video Games. Edited by Matt Payne and Nina Huntemann, under contract with New York University Press. Page 29-35.
• Forthcoming Salter, A. and Blodgett B. (2019). “Playing the Humanities: Feminist Game Studies and Public Discourse.” Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities. Edited by Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont. University of Minnesota Press. 
• Blodgett, B. and Salter, A. (2018). “The Doctors Who Waited: The Lonely Woman Scientist Trope in Geek TV.” Women in STEM on Television. Edited by Ashley Carlson. McFarland Press.
• Salter, A. (2018). “Building Interactive Stories.” In The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities. Edited by Jentery Sayers. Routledge Press. 
• Salter, A. (2016). “Comics and Art.” In The Routledge Companion to Comics. Edited by Frank Bramlett, Roy Cook, and Aaron Meskin. Routledge Press, June.
• Salter, A. (2016). “Educational Games.” In Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon.  Edited by Raiford Guins and Henry Lowood. MIT Press.

• Salter, A. (2014). “Writing Under Constraint” and “Mobile Entertainment.” In The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Humanities. Co-editors: Lori Emerson, Marie-Laure Ryan, Benjamin Robertson. Johns Hopkins University Press.

• Salter, A. (2013). “Hacking the Dissertation.” In Hacking the Academy, edited by D. Cohen and T. Scheinfeldt. University of Michigan Press.

• Salter, A. (2011). “Closed Minds: Tamora Pierce’s Teenagers and the Problem of Desire.” Supernatural Youth. Ed. J. Battis. Lexington Press.

Creative Publications

• Salter, A. (2019). "Being Mii." Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures 21. Special Issue: Buzzademia: Scholarship in the Internet Vernacular. Ed. A. Cong-Huyen; K. Knight; M. Marino. <http://hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz21/>.
• Salter, A.; Murray, J. (2019) "Blocked In." Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures 21. Special Issue: Buzzademia: Scholarship in the Internet Vernacular. Ed. A. Cong-Huyen; K. Knight; M. Marino. <http://hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz21/>.
• Burelle, M.; Kocurek, C.; Perez, A.; Reilly, M.; Salter, A.; Smith, G.; Vadakumchery, T. (2018). “The Spider’s Web: Alternate Reality Game” Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, Issue 13. (Peer-reviewed). <https://adanewmedia.org/2018/05/issue13-kuchera/>
• Salter, A.; Blodgett, B. (2017). “Alt-Right: Ctrl+A; Del.” Journal of Persona Studies 3.1. (Peer Reviewed) < https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/656> 

Conference Papers/Presentations

• Kretzschmar, M.; Salter, A. (2020). “Party Ghosts and Queer Teen Wolves: Monster Prom and Resisting Heteronormativity in Dating Simulators.” In Proceedings of the 15th Conference on the Foundation of Digital Games. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3402942.3402975. 
• Sullivan, A.; Stanfill, M.; Salter, A. (2020). “Crafting is So Hardcore: Masculinized Making in Gaming Representations of Labor.” In Proceedings of the 15th Conference on the Foundation of Digital Games. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3402942.3402976. 
• Eddy, R.; Baker, C.; Macy, R.; Murray, J.; Salter, A. (2020). “Hacking Droids and Casting Spells: Locative Augmented Reality Games and the Reimagining of the Theme Park.” In HT ’20: Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, July 13-15, 2020, Virtual Event, USA. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3372923.3404801. 
• Salter, A.; Stanfill, M.; Sullivan, A. (2019). “But Does Pikachu Love You? Reproductive Labor in Casual and Hardcore Games.” In Proceedings of the 14th Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. ACM. https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:26305/
• Salter, A.; Blodgett, B. (2018). “‘Every Word You Just Said is Wrong’: Online Rage and Inclusivity in Disney Franchise Fandom.” In Selected Papers of Internet Research 17. Association of Internet Research. 
• Salter, A.; Blodgett, B.; Sullivan, A. (2018). “‘Just Because It’s Gay’: Transgressive Design in Queer Coming of Age Visual Novels.” In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. ACM. <https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3235765> 
• Sullivan, A; Salter, A.; Smith, G. (2018). “Games Crafters Play.” In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. ACM. (Peer reviewed) <https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3235765>
• Salter, A.; Blodgett, B. (2017). “This is Fine: #ResistJam and the 2016 Election in Gaming.” In Foundations of Games 2017, Hyannis, MA, August 14-17. ACM.
• Sullivan, A.; Salter, A. (2017). “Towards a Narrative Taxonomy of Physical Games.” In Foundations of Games 2017, Hyannis, MA, August 14-17. ACM.
• Salter, A. (2016) "Playing at empathy: Representing and experiencing emotional growth through Twine games." Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH), Orlando, Florida. 
• Kourova, A., Salter, A., Pidberejna, I., & McDaniel, R. (2016). “From Orlando to Russia: Cross-cultural communication through gamemaking.” In Proceedings of the 34th Annual International Conference on the Design of Communication. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. Arlington, Virginia.
• Watson, K. and Salter, A. (2016). "Secret Societies of the Avant-garde: Designing a Game for Art History." Games Learning Society 11 Proceedings, ETC Press, 440-443.

Courses

• Spring 2021
• Fall 2020
• Summer 2020
• Spring 2020
• Fall 2019