I’m Noel Kirkpatrick, a graduate student at Georgia State University. I’m working on my Master’s thesis about superflat and its ideologies as applied to the PlayStation 2 video game Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 and the anime Samurai Champloo.
My research interests include animation (specifically anime), television, video games, film, narrative, genre, media industries, and the circulation of culture.
In addition to being a student, I’m the co-founder of Monsters of Television with Nicholas Campbell, and This Was Television with Cory Barker, Les Chappell, and Andy Daglas.
I’m all over the Internet, including Twitter and Academia.edu.
The entertainment news site The Wrap named me one of the 25 TV Superfans to Follow on Twitter in June of 2010. Which is pretty cool. I’ve also been interviewed by CNN.com about food TV and by Gameranx about what television can learn from video games.
You can e-mail me at noel DOT kirkpatrick @ gmail DOT com.
Photo: Tim Dorr, Oct. 31, 2010 in Washington, D.C. before The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.
