Curtis Maughan

I am the Director of the World Languages and Digital Humanities Studio at the University of Arkansas. I earned my Ph.D. in German Studies from Vanderbilt University. My research embodies the meaningful coalescence of German Studies and emerging digital technologies, as exemplified by my dissertation on Walter Benjamin’s concept of flânerie in the context of open world gameplay and game design practices. My most recent scholarly efforts explore the potential of videogames in the process of a ludic Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past); a project that has produced an initial publication titled “Toward a Camera Ludica—Agency and Photography in Videogame Ecologies,” forthcoming in Moving Frames: Photographs in German Cinema (Berghan Books, 2022).