Cody Mejeur (They/Them) is Assistant Professor of Media Study at University at Buffalo, SUNY, and Director of the Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio there. Their work uses games to theorize narrative as an embodied and playful process that constructs how we understand ourselves, our realities, and our differences. They are currently the game director for Trans Folks Walking, a narrative game about trans experiences coming out later this year. They are an editor of Historiographies of Game Studies (punctum 2025), co-editor of the trans narratology special issue of the Narrative journal (2024), and have published numerous articles and book chapters in Games & Culture, Digital Humanities Quarterly, and Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, among others. Upcoming projects include Trans/Narrative/Queer/Play, a monograph with NYU Press, The Post-Gamer Turn, an edited collection coming out 2027 with MIT Press, and Into the Fog: Essays on Dead By Daylight, an edited collection with McFarland (CFP out now!). They are currently Coordinator for the Ombuds Team of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA), have served as an Executive Council member for the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN), have served as Diversity Officer for DiGRA, and work with the LGBTQ Video Game Archive on preserving and visualizing LGBTQ representation.
More personally, I like to say that I’ve lived my entire life to date around the Great Lakes region of the US. Born and raised in West Michigan, my early life and education took place at Western Michigan University. I completed my masters degree at University of Chicago, followed by my PhD at Michigan State University in English. I began my faculty career as a Visiting Assistant Professor at University at Buffalo in 2019, where I’ve been since. Most years, I challenge myself to swim in every one of the Great Lakes (Michigan, Huron, Superior, Erie, and Ontario), though I don’t make it to all of them every year. I love playing games of all kinds, reading, baking, and going to the beach to swim with my dog, Luke.
Header Image is the main menu image for Trans Folks Walking created by Dana Hunt-Locklear, MFA and PhD student in Media Study at UB.