Kevin Wong

Research interests: classical reception in video games and new media; game studies; media studies; commercial and creative path dependencies in ancient and modern cultural production; ancient athletics, gladiatorial games, and competition; epic, myth, and historiography in fantasy worldbuilding; cross-cultural receptions in Eastern and Western media; online rhetoric and livestreaming; antiquity, virtual worlds, and immersive technologies; livestreaming and digital sophistry; Latin elegy and technologically-mediated love

Dissertation title: “Multiplayer Classicism: Replaying Epic from Greco-Roman Antiquity to Online Gaming Culture”

Secondary field: Science, Technology, and Society (STS)

MSt in Classical Languages and Literature, University of Oxford, 2022

BA in Literature and Liberal Arts, Yale-NUS College, 2021

LLB (Bachelor of Laws), National University of Singapore, 2021