Ashleigh Cassemere-Stanfield

Ashleigh Cassemere-Stanfield is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Colgate University. They work at the intersection of videogame studies, digital media theory, queer theory, Black studies, new materialism, and affect theory. Their research examines the generativity, ontological strangeness, and epistemic violence of digital media. Specifically they study videogames and AI. They are especially interested in what videogames can teach us about contemporary American subjectivity, and about how we become the flesh for, if not machinic “thought” then at least machinic affectivity. Their teaching combines speculative design and critical theory in order to teach students to thoughtfully engage with, remix, and reimagine the media objects and environments that constitute their lives.