Dr. Victoria Lagrange
Assistant Professor of Game Narrative
vlagrang@kennesaw.edu
Office: EB 166
Dr. Victoria Lagrange is an Assistant Professor of Game Narrative within the Department of English at Kennesaw State University (Georgia, USA). Her research sits at the confluence of media studies, narratology, reception studies, and cognitive science, with a primary emphasis on transmedia storytelling, comics, digital interactive fiction, empathy, and immersion.
Her scholarly interests revolve around the examination of novel storytelling formats and their impact on audience reception and participatory culture. Dr. Lagrange’s scholarship includes multiple published articles, including analyses of the transmedia expansions of Bill Willingham’s Fables, the intricate relationship between violence, empathy, and decision-making in interactive fiction, and the study of user reception of video games. Her recent publications include work in Behavioral and Brain Sciences and PloS ONE.
Additionally, she serves as the director of the Game Narrative Lab at Kennesaw State University, where her team’s focus is on the creation and evaluation of prosocial video games. Notably, their latest endeavor, Corporation, Inc., recently achieved recognition by winning an international critical thinking games competition.
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Concentration Area(s)
- Applied Writing
- Creative Writing
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MAPW Courses Taught
- PRWR 7900 Special Topics: Interactive Narrative & Games
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Select Publications
2023
- “Individualized Communal Experience: Players of Detroit: Become Human”, Digital Games Research Association 2023 Conference Proceedings
- Breithaupt, F., Hicks, M., Hiskes, B., Lagrange, V., “High-stakes decisions do not require narrative conviction but narrative flexibility”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, E85, Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/S0140525X22002606
2019
- Lagrange, V., Hiskes B., Woodward C., Li B., Breithaupt F., “Choosing and enjoying violence in narratives”, PLoS ONE 14(12), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226503
