Jean Ketterling

I am an interdisciplinary researcher who specializes in the study of sex and videogames. I hold a PhD in Legal Studies from Carleton University in Ottawa, where I was a Vanier Scholar.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies - Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Saskatchewan.

I am also the communications officer for the Sexuality Studies Association (SSA) and the vice president of the Canadian Game Studies Association (CGSA)

My interdisciplinary work on videogames is rooted in legal, game and pornography studies and is informed by feminist and queer theories. I am particularly interested in sexual video games: how they represent sex, their ability to make space for experimental sexual play, and how sexual content in video games is promoted, controlled, and regulated by platforms. Recently, my work has appeared in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies, Surveillance & Society and Feminist Media Studies.