Nate Garrelts

{{short description|American academic}}

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| nationality = American

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| field = Cultural Studies

| training = PhD, Michigan State University, American Studies

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| works = Responding to Call of Duty (2017), Understanding Minecraft (2014), The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto (2006), Digital Gameplay (2005)

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Nate Garrelts is an American academic who studies digital games and other media. He has edited four collections of essays on digital games: Digital Gameplay (McFarland, 2005), The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto (McFarland, 2006), Understanding Minecraft (McFarland, 2014), and Responding to Call of Duty (McFarland, 2017).{{cite web|title=McFarland: A Leading Independent Publisher of Academic and Non-Profit Books|url=https://mcfarlandbooks.com/?s=garrelts&search_id=product&post_type=product|access-date=13 June 2015}}The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto was the first academic collection to focus on a single game series.{{cite web|last1=Dredge|first1=Stuart|title=Top 10 things you never knew about Grand Theft Auto (because you're not brainy enough)|url=http://www.techdigest.tv/2006/12/top_10_things_y.html|website=TechDigest|date=5 December 2006|access-date=17 June 2015}}{{cite web|last1=Sauvé|first1=Christian|title=The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto, Ed. Nate Garrelts|url=http://www.christian-sauve.com/2009/01/the-meaning-and-culture-of-grand-theft-auto-ed-nate-garrelts/|access-date=13 June 2015}} He has also contributed essays to the websites Bad Subjects{{cite web|title=Search Results|url=http://bad.eserver.org/search?SearchableText=garrelts|website=Bad Subjects|access-date=13 June 2015}} and Berfrois. In 2003, he founded the Video Game Studies area at the Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association National Conference in New Orleans{{cite book|last1=Voorhees|first1=Gerald|title=Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens: The Digital Role-Playing Game|date=2012|publisher=Continuum|page=2|isbn=9781441141088|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RdioAwAAQBAJ&q=nathan+garrelts&pg=PA2|access-date=20 June 2015}}{{cite web|last1=Barr|first1=Brandon|title=Video Game Studies (11/10/02; PCA/ACA, 4/16/03-4/19/03)|url=http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/5153/|website=Rhizome|access-date=13 June 2015}} and continued to coordinate it until 2007.{{cite web|title=CFP: Digital Games (11/1/06, PCA/ACA, 4/4/07-4/7/07)|url=http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/6325|website=cfp.english.upenn.edu|access-date=13 June 2015}} This area, which has since been renamed Game Studies, is one of the longest continually run game studies events in the United States.{{cite web|title=PCA/ACA Conference: Game Studies Area|url=https://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=206648|website=HNET|access-date=13 June 2015}}