Matthew Thomas Payne

Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame

Matthew Thomas Payne is the author of Eugene Jarvis: King of the Arcade (Bloomsbury, 2025) and Playing War: Military Video Games after 9/11 (NYU Press, 2016). He is co-author of Ultima and Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game (Amherst College Press, 2024), and is a co-editor of the anthologies How to Play Video Games (NYU Press, 2019), Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games (Routledge, 2009) and Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence (Routledge, 2010). He teaches media studies at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

Areas of Interest: social histories of video games, video essays, mediated warfare, and media literacy