Christine Tran

Christine H. Tran (they/she) is an Assistant Professor (LTA) at the University of Toronto Mississauga, where they are among the inaugural faculty hired to develop and teach the innovative Game Studies program offered by both the Department of English & Drama and the ICCIT.

International news outlets routinely interview Christine as an expert in Internet culture and digital platforms. You can read (or watch) her commentary in stories from  Rolling Stone, The Guardian, WIRED, BBC Future, CBC, Business Insider, Slate, The Globe and Mail, and other outlets. Their work is also frequently translated into creative and journalistic formats, with news features in The Conversation, Midnight Sun, and The Puritan, in addition to scholarly performance workshops on/about Zoom.

She has published research in peer-reviewed journals such as: Television & New Media, Communication, Culture & Critique, New Media & Society, JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Information, Communication & Society, Global Media & China, and The Canadian Journal of Communication.

Christine is also a cofounder of the Content Creator Scholars Network (CCSN), a global community hub for critical research of emerging platform economies, influencers, and digital creators.