Nicholas Holterman

Bonjour hi, I'm Nicholas!

I'm a PhD candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures (French). During COVID-19 I was a high school French teacher in my hometown at the Academy of the Holy Names (Albany, NY). My dissertation, "Playing the French Middle Ages" explores what happens when we look at French and francophone texts from 800 years ago through a lens of gaming structures, analog, and video games. From feminist & queer game design to digitally explorable lanscapes, my project situates itself uniquely between medieval-, gender & sexuality-, and video game studies.

Here at the University of Michigan, I'm also a Digital Studies Certificate and Graduate Teaching Certificate candidate.