If you are one of the 1.2 million people who subscribe to the Critical Role Youtube Channel, you already understand how a group of voice actors has transformed role-playing games by playing their campaign of Dungeons and Dragons live online. Assistant Professor Lisa Horton and David Beard have written an essay explaining how role-playing games have changed in the digital age for The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities.
Prof. Horton has written previously on remix theory in “Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: Steampunk Superhero?” in Clockwork Rhetoric: The Language and Style of Steampunk and in "From Medievalism to Memes" in the Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric 7 (2017).
Prof. Horton teaches a wide array of courses in the department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies, from first-year writing to Arthurian myth. For more information, visit the ELWS department website.