Keerthi Sridharan is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) and Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH). Their research concerns play spaces, performance, and processes of identification with the self and the other.

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Research

Keerthi is a PhD candidate at LUCAS & LUCDH, as part of the NWO-funded Playful Time Machines project, which examines the role of video games in shaping societal, communal, and individual relationships with the past. Their PhD research focuses on player experience as a process of identification, interpellation, and orientation in both time and space. By untangling the elements at work in individual instantiations of play, their research seeks to build a comprehensive understanding of "past-play" as an affective, value-driven experience.

In addition to teaching in the Game Studies minor, they also co-run the Leiden Ludic Collective (LLC), an initiative for scholars at all levels to discuss and collaborate around games and play.