Alexandra Petrus

Pronouns: she/her

Email: petrus@usc.edu
Advisor: Anikó Imre

As a scholar-practitioner, Alexandra Petrus' work moves across issues of labor and property through filmmaking, game design, and research. In 2020 she co-founded Achtung Autobahn Studios, a Germany-based studio specializing in social-realist games, and continues to work with experimental analog and digital media forms alongside her scholarship. Her developing dissertation project explores the ways the nascent "cozy game" genre operates within the contradictions posed by utopian praxis across select sites of history, offering not just an escape from our current state of environmental and political-economic crisis but also a means of tracing how we arrived at them.