Ryan Banfi, Visiting Assistant Professor, MassArt. Ryan Banfi holds a PhD in Cinema Studies from the Martin Scorsese Cinema Studies Department at NYU. He is a Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar on the Games and Culture editorial board. Ryan’s writing has been published in Design Issues, Critical Inquiry,Contexts, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Television & New Media, New Review of Film and Television Studies, The International Journal of James Bond Studies, Games and Culture, Game Studies, Mediapolis, Flow Online Journal, Studies in European Cinema, and In Media Res. He currently teaches video games, film, TV, and American literature at MassArt and Emerson College.