About Steph
Dr. Stephanie Hedge (she/her/hers) is an associate professor of English and the Director of the Writing Program at the University of Illinois Springfield, where she teaches classes on first year writing, digital literacies, and the ways that words do work in the world. She researches digitally mediated pedagogies and game studies, and she is the co-editor of Roleplaying Games in the Digital Age: Essays on Transmedia Storytelling, Tabletop RPGs and Fandom (McFarland 2021) with Jennifer Grouling Snider and the first year composition textbook Digitally Mediated Composing and You: A Beginners Guide to Rhetoric and Writing in an Interconnected World (Kendall Hunt, 2nd ed 2024) with Courtney Cox. She is currently working on a new edited collection for the McFarland Studies in Gaming Series that explores Indie Tabletop Roleplaying Games.