Join us for a special stream featuring student-made games with Molly Appel, assistant professor of English at Nevada State University. During our time together, we will play through a variety of games created by Molly’s students while discussing video games as literature, storytelling and narrative in games and other media, and more.

Molly Appel is an assistant professor of English at Nevada State University. Her work focuses on how Latinx and Latin American literatures have been a space of feminist and decolonial pedagogies of human rights and social justice. She has been an educator in K-12 and higher education classrooms for over 15 years. At Nevada State, she teaches a range of courses including Human Rights and World Literature, Chicanx literature, Theater of the Americas, Gloria Anzaldúa, Video Games, and composition courses on education and its history in Nevada. Her research appears in the journals College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies (in press); AmLit: American Literatures; Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures; and the in the edited volumes Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts (in press); Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons; Human Rights, Social Movements, and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema.  

Humanities at Play explores and showcases the significance of the humanities in everyday life through games, media, and popular culture. Join us for dynamic and interactive online and in-person events designed to spark thoughtful conversation and reflection. Learn more at nevadahumanities.org/humanities-at-play.