Ian Bogost

Bogost received his bachelor's in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California in 1998. He then went on to get his masters in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2001, and received his doctorate in Comparative Literature from UCLA in 2004. ==Professional career==

In 2008, Bogost became an associate professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2010, he was appointed Director of the Graduate Program in Digital Media, a position he held until 2012. In 2011, Bogost became a professor of Digital Media and an adjunct professor of Interactive Computing. In 2012, he was named the Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and a professor of Interactive Computing, both positions he still holds. With Christopher Schaberg, he is co-editor of the series Object Lessons from Bloomsbury Publishing. His book ''Alien Phenomenology or What It's Like to be a Thing'' (University of Minnesota Press, 2012) critiques aspects of Bruno Latour's actor-network theory. In 2021, Bogost quit his job at the Georgia Institute of Technology partly because of the university's lack of COVID-19 protection requirements. He took a joint professorship at Washington University where he serves as director and professor of the Film and Media Studies program in Arts & Sciences and the McKelvey School of Engineering. Bogost was a co-founder of the game studio Persuasive Games, for which he is currently the chief designer. ==Honors and awards==

• Winner, Vanguard & Virtuoso Awards, Indiecade Festival 2010 (for A Slow Year). • Finalist, Indiecade Festival 2010 (for A Slow Year). ==Games==