Hi! My name is Agata Waszkiewicz.

I’m an Associate Professor at the Institute of Literary Studies at the Catholic University of Lublin. I research video games, with a special focus on metafictional and experimental titles on the one hand, and, on the other, cozy games and comfort play.​

I am active in the game studies community as the Vice-Chair of the Central and Eastern European Chapter of Digra (responsible for the organization of the CEEGS conference), a member of the organizational committee of GamesLit conference, and a board member of Eludamos: Journal for Video Game Culture.

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Selected articles

Agata Waszkiewicz & Martyna Bakun
Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds | 2020
Towards the Aesthetic of Cozy Video Games
Agata Waszkiewicz
Journal of Games Criticism | 2020
“Together They Are Twofold”: Player-Avatar Relationship Beyond the Fourth Wall
Agata Waszkiewicz
Games and Culture | 2024
The Show, the Game, and the Old Gods: On the Ontological Reframing and the Fiction/Real Boundary
Agata Waszkiewicz & Martyna Bakun
Przegląd Kulturoznawczy | 2024
Narrative Refusals, Lacunae, and the Reference by Absence in Quantum Break Novelization
Agata Waszkiewicz
Replay: The Polish Journal of Game Studies | 2024
Soft horrors: the visual and ludic safety of dark cozy games
Agata Waszkiewicz
Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds | 2024
Roll for consent: Trigger warnings and consent negotiations in video games
I am a co-founder of Cozy Media Research Network

Cozy Media
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