Patrick Jagoda specializes in media theory, game studies and design, science studies, and twentieth and twenty-first century American literature and culture. He is the co-founder of the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab and the Transmedia Story Lab, faculty director of the Weston Game Lab and the Media Arts and Design major at the University of Chicago, and Executive Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Critical Inquiry. Jagoda has helped develop game studies and game design at the University of Chicago, including as a co-founder of the Fourcast Lab collective, which designs alternate reality games about topics such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. He is the author of Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification (University of Chicago Press, 2020), Network Aesthetics (University of Chicago Press, 2016), and other publications.

To learn more about Patrick Jagoda's research and publications, see his profile page at the Department of English.