Hi, my name is Emily,
I’m a writer, curator & researcher.

I'm a First Class BA (Hons.) and MA graduate of the University of Sheffield.

I was born in Tauranga, New Zealand, and grew up in Coffs Harbour, Australia before settling in Sheffield, in the UK.

I’m a creative Curator with a focus on videogames most recently working for four years as in-house Curator at the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield.

For my doctoral research, I looked at film, videogames, and new visual media with a specific interest in religion and depictions of Jesus and Jesus figures; looking at gender, sexuality, and hybrid masculinities within texts from the 1970’s to today.

Previously I’ve written for PC Gamer, TheGamer.com and Tech Radar as well as working as a Research Assistant for the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, assisting with the 'Videogames' exhibition, which opened in 2018.

In October of 2016 I started work on further postgraduate studies, thanks to a full scholarship awarded by the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH).

Since then I've had the chance to speak in the UK and US on topics of sexuality in games, religion, fan studies, film theory and more. You can read about my previous research talks here.