Andrei Nae. Lecturer, University of Bucharest

I am Lecturer at the University of Bucharest and at the Echo School of Technology, Digital Arts and Video Games in partnership with Abertay University where I teach courses in game studies and seminars in twentieth-century and contemporary English literature. I am also Postdoctoral Researcher at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu where I work on ideology in paraliterature and vice-chair of Central and Eastern European Game Studies (DiGRA Chapter), as well as an educational YouTuber working on popularising the humanities in Romania with focus on critical theory.

My main research interest lies at the intersection of game studies, cultural studies, and narratology. So far I have been involved in several research projects, the most important being “Colonial Discourse in Video Games,” where I held the position of principal investigator. Some of my most relevant publications include the monograph Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games published by Routledge in 2021, the article “From Saviour to Colonial Perpetrator: Manipulating Player Empathy in Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill Origins” featured in the 2022 special issue Gaming and Affect edited by Laurent Milesi and hosted by Parallax, as well as the collective volume Video Games between Postcolonialism and Postcommunism published by De Gruyter in 2025.

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