Ashlee Bird

Biography

Ashlee Bird is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame and a Native American game designer. She is Western Abenaki, originally from Vermont’s Champlain Valley, and teaches courses on gaming and play. Her research covers Native American representation, visual sovereignty and decolonial media, and digital media and popular culture. Her first book project, tentatively titled Red Dead Redemption, examines how video games portray Native characters and argues for decolonial approaches to game design. Her original games One Small Step and Full of Birds were featured at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Festival in 2018 and 2019.