Dr Andra Ivanescu
Senior Lecturer in Games Studies
Gaskell Building 175
- Email: andra.ivanescu@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265924
- Digital Arts - Games
Summary
Andra is a Lecturer in Game Studies and a ludomusicologist.
Andra’s research interests are broad, going beyond her primary focus of music in videogames, and including appropriation and nostalgia, genre, gender studies, and film studies. Her research has been published in journals like The Soundtrack (2015) and she has presented papers at a variety of conferences including Myth, Fantasy and Fairy Tales in Literature and the Arts (Cambridge, 2013) and the Ludomusicology Conference (Chichester, 2014; Utrecht, 2015; Southampton, 2016). She is also co-editor of the academic journal Book 2.0. Andra has also led (and co-led) two Global Lives-funded research clusters focusing on creative processes in poetry and games, as well as the dissemination of academic research through digital games.
Andra's first monograph - - is now available from Palgrave Macmillan.
Andra teaches a number of game studies modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, including Game Studies 1: Introduction to Game Studies, Game Genre, and Socio-Cultural Studies.
Responsibility
Lecturer in Game Studies, Undergraduate Admissions Tutor, Dissertation Supervisor (Undegraduate and Postgraduate).
Newest selected publications
Ivanescu, A. (2024) 'A Playlist for the Apocalypse: Popular Music in Death Stranding', in DiTommaso, L., Crossley, J., Lockhart, A. and Wagner, R. (eds.) End-Game: Apocalyptic Video Games, Contemporary Society, and Digital Media Culture. Berlin : De Gruyter. pp. 193 - 208. ISBN 10: 3-11-075280-8. ISBN 13: 978-3-11-075268-7.
Iv膬nescu, A. (2024) ''. Journal of Sound and Music in Games, 5 (1). pp. 24 - 38.
Ivanescu, A. (Accepted) '鈥淚鈥檒l Show You鈥: K/DA and the Role of the Virtual Popstar in the Games Industry', in L贸pez G贸mez, L. (ed.) Music, Sound, and Identity in Video Games. London : Palgrave Macmillan.
Iv膬nescu, A. (2021) 'Pop Music, Economics and Marketing', in Fritsch, M. and Summers, T. (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. pp. 395 - 408. ISBN 10: 1-108-67028-8. ISBN 13: 978-1-108-47302-6.
Ivanescu, A. (2021) 'Pop Music, Economics and Marketing', in Summers, T. and Fritsch, M. (eds.) Cambridge Companion for Video Game Music. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. ISBN 13: 9781108670289.