Jason Hawreliak earned his PhD in English Language & Literature from the University of Waterloo. His research examines meaning in videogames, with an emphasis on multimodal semiotics and rhetoric. He is the author of the 2018 monograph, Multimodal Semiotics and Rhetoric in Videogames (Routledge), the first book-length study of multimodal game studies, and the author of numerous journal articles, book chapters, and middle-state publications. He has previously researched the relationship between videogames and military propaganda, knowledge mobilization in game studies, and irony in videogames. He is a co-founder of the online game studies periodical, First Person Scholar, and the current Graduate Program Director for the MA in Game Studies.