Born amidst the sad cartoon of Nixon’s America and Evel Knievel’s ill-fated jump across the Snake River Canyon, Trevor Dodge spent big chunks of his childhood listening to Jackson 5 and Journey records. Everything was going fine until his next door neighbor brought over Queen’s News of the World album; the cover art depicted a massive robot squishing people between its fingers. Needless to say, twenty years of nightmares started immediately.
He has taught courses in fiction writing, comics and game studies at Illinois State University, Boise State University, Pacific Northwest College of Art and Clackamas Community College. He also co-hosts the weekly game culture podcast First Wall Rebate, and is managing editor for Chiasmus Press. His first novella, Yellow #10, was published in 2003; a collection of short fiction, Everyone I Know Lives On Roads, followed in 2006.
Click here to read an interview. And here to visit my author page at Goodreads.
April 15th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
hey Trevor, i’m glad you report that Gamer Theory worked with your students.
April 16th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
it’s been incredibly useful helping us frame our discussions, Ken. i actually had a student come up after class on Thursday to ask when we’d be discussing the “America” section. apparently, he’d been reading ahead…
thanks again for touching base. i’m delighted you’ve been dropping by.
May 8th, 2007 at 9:55 am
http://www.iplaycollective.com/ipod-FFFF0050018000C402171957.htm
have you had a chance to read up on this coming down the pipe?
May 8th, 2007 at 9:56 am
http://www.iplaycollective.com/ipod-FFFF0050018000C402171957.html
sorry forgot an l in the link
May 8th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Yeah, I saw that the other day. The technology is certainly interesting; the subject matter much less so.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
friend of mine is looking to generate a new site.
http://www.creepysanta.com/
once completed should be fun and disturbing
May 21st, 2007 at 12:43 pm
http://www.heavy.com/video/12911
sadl;y I found this 10 times funnier than the last 5 ‘top 10′ lists from letterman
May 24th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
so … when you decide to run a class like this give me a holler
I can come audit it
http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/05/cthulhu_cthursd_9.html
May 24th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
yeah, I downloaded and listened to the latest lecture in that series just last week. interesting, heady stuff involving chaos theory and magic. we addressed some interesting issues in the games & lit class when it came to lovecraft; check out the podcasts if you’re interested over at http://eng299.wordpress.com
June 7th, 2007 at 7:27 am
I wanted to share a link with you, it;s for one of the best movies that will not make it out of the film competition grind I have ever seen.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479162
If you ever see it avaialble, I’d encourage you watch it for yourself, and for the Lit class that covers ‘super heroes’.
March 7th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
so there you are. not that you’ve been hiding. i haven’t been keeping up. see that you’re still in the lit pipeline–and haunting all these places i have almost ended up. now at clackamas. congratulations on still teaching. envious, somewhat. i’ve pretty much dropped out of the scene, started me own school in Japan, where i’ve and raised a family for the last eight years since leaving ISU. been applying stateside for composition positions, but once you’re out of the system, they aren’t interested in ya. fun fun. yes yes. still reading, still thinking. working on an essay on Acker. interested? so, please drop a line, recommend a good book–I will check out yellow #10: was that the one you were working on at ISU?
March 7th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Yes, here I am. Good to hear from you here, Curt. Please notice that I didn’t confuse the spelling of “hear” and “hear”; that’s how useful my education is.
Seriously, very nice to know that you’re Out There, and by There I really mean here. Which, of course, is spelled just the way it should be.
March 20th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Trevor, go check out the “Honda Eco-Awareness” video i have just posted in my blog. Tell me what you think.