Christina Fawcett
Title: Instructor
Email: c.fawcett@uwinnipeg.ca
Biography:
Christina Fawcett specializes in Monster Theory, Fantasy, Science Fiction, young people’s texts and cultures, and new media. She is a member of the Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures (CRYTC) and the Centre for Research in Cultural Studies (CRiCS), both housed at the University of Winnipeg, and the Canadian Games Studies Association (CGSA/ACÉJ). She is the former Book Reviews Editor and current member of the Advisory Board for Jeunesse: Young People’s Texts and Cultures. Her recent publications focus on video game narratives and their representations of gender, criminality and monstrosity, and genre fiction’s intersections with law and ethics. She is the co-investigator for “Contemporary Cozy Media”, a SSHRC-funded project examining fantasy literature and media, mystery literature and media, and video games.
Teaching Areas:
Popular literature and genre (Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery), young people’s texts and cultures, media
Courses:
FW ENGL-2003-770 FIELD CHILDREN'S LIT
Publications:
Recent and Upcoming Publications
Fawcett, Christina and Andrea Braithwaite. “Subverting Victory: Cozy Gaming and Comfort.” Subversive Gaming. Palgrave Games in Context. Eds. Aparajita Bhandari and Sara Bimo. Palgrave MacMillan. Publication Upcoming 2025.
Fawcett, Christina and Marc Ouellette. “Transgression on the Frontier: The Ludicity of Incest in Bioshock Infinite.” Hell-Bent for Leather: Sex & Sexuality in the Weird Western, Vol. II. Eds. Kerry Fine, Michael Johnson, Rebecca Lush and Sara Spurgeon. University of Nebraska Press, 2024, 268-88.
Fawcett, Christina and Steven Kohm. “To Serve and Protect from Behind the Mask: Policing, Vigilantism and Justice in Marvel’s Spiderman and Spiderman: Miles Morales.” Video Games, Crime, and Control Getting Played. Eds. Jonathan Grubb and Kevin Steinmetz. Broadview Press, 2024, pp. 135-55.
Szilagyi, Katie and Christina Fawcett. “Buying and Selling the Metaverse: Science Fiction Speculation, Modern Technologies, and Digital Data Economies.” Jurisprudence of the Future. Eds. Kieran Tranter, Alex Green and Mitchell Travis. Routledge Press, 2024, pp. 247-70.
---. “Changeling the Outcome: Fairy-Tale Framing and the Ethics of Care in Michelle Lovretta’s Killjoys.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 34, no. 1, 2023, pp. 139-65.
McGreevy, Alan, Christina Fawcett and Marc Ouellette. “The House and the Infected Body: the Metonomy of Resident Evil 7.” Disease in Digital Games: Theories, Topics, Analyses. Eds. Arno Görgen and Stefan H. Simond. Transcript Press. September 2020, pp. 253-74.
---. “Consumed by Guilt: Horror, Retribution and Justice in Until Dawn.” The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, vol. 9, 2020, pp. 86-109.
Fawcett, Christina and Steven Kohm. “Carceral violence at the intersection of madness and crime in Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City.” Crime, Media, Culture, vol. 16, no. 2, 2020, pp. 265-85.