DA Hall (any/all) is an English & Comparative Literature PhD Candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. DA Hall is currently producing a dissertation that centers questions of historical development of genre, queer narrative temporalities, and radical community meaning-making within a genealogy of Japanese video games. DA Hall has written and presented extensively on FromSoftware’s Soulsborne series, and is currently co-organizing a volume with Dr. Austin Anderson, Director of Stanford’s Critical Game Studies Lab. The collected essays explore Japanese videogame perspectives on Western worlding as aesthetic navigations of the contested cultural situation of Japan in the wake of World War II. DA Hall is the Assistant Director of the Critical Game Studies Program at UNC, and in that capacity has worked to build the Greenlaw Gameroom, a game-focused classroom which centers accessibility and critical pedagogy, as well as the proposed Critical Game Studies Minor within the English & Comparative Literature department.