Sarahlynnebowman

Sarah Lynne Bowman (Ph.D.) teaches as Adjunct Faculty in English and Communication for several institutions including The University of Texas at Dallas. McFarland Press published her dissertation in 2010 as The Functions of Role-playing Games: How Participants Create Community, Solve Problems, and Explore Identity. She edited The Book of Mad About the Boy (2012 US run) and has presented a Nordic Larp talk on Bleed. Together with Aaron Vanek, Bowman co-edits The Wyrd Con Companion Book, a collection of essays on larp and related phenomena. Along with her work on social conflict and bleed effects, her current research interests include applying Jungian theory to role-playing studies, studying the benefits of edu-larp, and comparing the enactment of role-playing characters with other creative phenomena such as drag performance.