Ashley ML Guajardo

Books I’ve Written

Ask, K., Guajardo, A., Shivonen, T., Tompkins, J. 2026. Playing Like a Fangirl. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.

Brown, A. 2015. Sexuality in Role-Playing Games. New York: Routledge.

Mortensen, T.E., Linderoth, J. and Brown, A. (eds) 2015. The Dark Side of Game Play. New York: Routledge.

Books I’ve Written Chapters In

Journal Articles I’ve Written

  • Loomis, A., McLaughlin, R., Levi, B., Campbell, K., and Guajardo, A. 2026. Leveraging Serious Games to Support Trauma-Informed Training for Early Childhood Educators. Journal of Early Childhood Education. In press. 
  • Tompkins, J. and Guajardo, A. 2024. ‘Gatekeeping the Gatekeepers: An Exploratory Study of Transformative Games Fandom & TikTok Algorithms.’ Games and Culture.
  • Karhulahti, VM, Saarenmaa, L, and Brown, A. 2019. Sexuality and Play. WiderScreen Special Issue.
  • Brown, A. and Stenros, J. 2018. Adult Play: The Dirty Secret of Grown Ups. Games and Culture. 13(3), pp 215-219. 
  • Harviainen, J.; Brown, A. M. L. and Suominen, J. (2016) ‘Three Waves of Awkwardness: A Meta-Analysis of Sex in Game Studies’, Games and Culture, 11(3).
  • Brown, A. (2015). ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Sexy Analogue Play’, Analogue Game Studies, 2(5).
  • Brown, A. (2013) ‘‘I Put on my Robe and Wizard Hat’: A brief introduction to erotic role play (and the questions it raises)’. First Person Scholar Blog. Found at: http://www.firstpersonscholar.com/i-put-on-my-robe-and-wizard-hat/
  • Brown, A. (2012). ‘‘No One-Handed Typing’: An exploration of cheats and spoilsports in an erotic role play community in World of Warcraft’. Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds, 4(3).
  • Brown, A. and Temple, E. M. (2011). ‘A Feminist Critique of Outdated Constructions of Gender: A response to Zucker et al. (1999)’. Psychology of Women Section Review. 13 (1).
  • Perry, N., Mitchell Kay, S., Brown, A. (2007) ‘Continuity and Change in Home Literacy Practices of Hispanic Families with Preschool Children’. Early Childhood Development and Care. Volume 178, issue 1.