Chris Hanson is an Associate Professor of Film and Screen Studies in the Department of English, and received his MA and PhD in Critical Studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and his BA in Media Studies from Carleton College. He previously worked for a number of years in video game and software development, and later assisted with the planning and production of an educational series and content for PBS. His first book, Game Time: Understanding Temporality in Video Games (Indiana University Press, 2018), examines the function of time in digital and analog games, and he is currently working on book projects about early digital game history and game designer Roberta Williams.

Chris was selected as a 2024-2025 Faculty Fellow for ASPI (the Autonomous Systems Policy Institute). He serves as an advising faculty member for the Goldring Arts Journalism Program in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and has also taught courses in the Renée Crown University Honors Program and for Project Advance. He serves as the faculty advisor for the university’s Gaming Club, and assisted with the planning and development of Syracuse University’s esports room and major, and the Digital Scholarship Space in Bird Library. His research and teaching focus on game studies, emerging media, television, and avant-garde film. His work has appeared in How to Play Video Games, The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Film Quarterly, Exploring Imaginary Worlds, and The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds.

Game studies, game industry studies, television studies, genre, emerging media, avant-garde film, intermedial and transmedia texts, and temporality.