
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four, examining the impact of Orwell‘s visionary novel, is now available in Japanese!
Included is my essay on the influence of Nineteen Eighty-Four on video games.

Professor, Film + Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz / semurray[at]ucsc[dot]edu

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four, examining the impact of Orwell‘s visionary novel, is now available in Japanese!
Included is my essay on the influence of Nineteen Eighty-Four on video games.
Many thanks for the wonderful opportunity to share some research from my forthcoming book at the UCSC Cultural Studies Colloquium. I spoke on the presence of the black technology expert in technothriller films from the 1970s to the present. I appreciate the stimulating conversation and responses to my work, and look forward to sharing the longer version of the research in my book, out in February 2026 with MIT Press.


