Kawika Guillermos will present their latest book and will
be available for discussion afterwards.
Kawika's recent book
Of Floating Isles. On Growing
Pains and Video Games is a collection of essays that combines an autobiographical approach with an analysis of the cultural
meaning of games and the social and political economy of emotions that surround them. By focusing not on the game as a system,
but on the player's personal experience, it breaks new ground in thinking and writing about games.
ParticipationMonday 19.01.2026, 18:30-20:00
Online
via ZoomKawika Guillermo (they/he) is an award-winning author of seven books and a third
generation Filipinx American whose family is primarily from Hawai’i and Texas. Their debut novel, Stamped: an anti-travel
novel, won the 2020 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Creative Prose, and was adapted into a free-to-play
video game, Stamped: an anti-travel game. Kawika publishes academic work under their patrilineal/legal name, Christopher
B. Patterson, where they work as Graduate Chair and Professor of The Social Justice Institute at The University of British
Columbia.
