Thread by @friede

As of tonight, @CritRoleBib has collected analysis of #CriticalRole in:
- 10 scholarly book chapters
- 10 peer-reviewed journal articles
- 4 academic conference papers
- 4 Undergraduate Theses
- 11 Master's Theses
- 1 Dissertation
- 1 Syllabus

And much more to come.

#CR7Years

You can find them all in the master sheet at aub.ie/critrolebib (or SUBMIT at aub.ie/submitcritrole…) but here's a highlight thread.

First, CritRoleBib co-founder @MariaKAlberto organized a #CriticalRole Week on @MC_IMR last December, including work by @jessb915 @jtloveridge @RaeLynFox and yours truly, on everything from fan art to Byroden's pie to ... well, go take a look: mediacommons.org/imr/content/cr…

@MariaKAlberto @MC_IMR @jessb915 @jtloveridge @RaeLynFox @McFarlandBooks published two edited collections on actual play with CR essays in 2021:
@slhedge & @jgrouling's Roleplaying Games in the Digital Age: Essays on Transmedia Storytelling, Tabletop RPGs and Fandom mcfarlandbooks.com/product/rolepl…

@MariaKAlberto @MC_IMR @jessb915 @jtloveridge @RaeLynFox @McFarlandBooks @slhedge @jgrouling Followed quickly by @shellyjansen's WATCH US ROLL: Essays on Actual Play and Performance in Tabletop Role-Playing Games
mcfarlandbooks.com/product/watch-…

The current winner for VERY FIRST reference to #CriticalRole goes to Christopher Madan's "Multiple statistical tests: Lessons from a d20" (2016) 10.12688/f1000research.8834.2

As some longtime Critters will already know, the first academic work to focus on #CriticalRole is Robyn Hope's 2017 MA Thesis, "Play, Performance, and Participation: Boundary Negotiation and Critical Role" (which I believe @matthewmercer read) spectrum.library.concordia.ca/983446/

The first book chapters on #CriticalRole wouldn't appear until 2019, academic publishing being what it is. CR is discussed in Steven Lumpkin's "Procedural Storytelling in #dnd" (2019) taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/…

The first chapter to *focus* on CR (& TAZ) was Josh Zimmerman & Antonnet Johnson's "'Roll for Seduction': Sex as Forbidden Play in Critical Role and The Adventure Zone Fan Fiction" in Representing Kink (2019), eds. Sara K. Howe & Susan E. Cook
rowman.com/ISBN/978149859…

2019 was also the year of the first currently-known conference paper, Elise Vist's “Their Game or Our Show? Creating a White Canon in Critical Role” presented at @FSNNorthAmerica fsn-northamerica.org/wp-content/upl…

Most submissions so far to CRBib are in English, but in 2021 there was a Czech MA thesis by Adéla Motlová "Current role-playing and role of mediation in the Czech Republic on example of Dungeons & Dragons" supervised by Jaroslav Švelch hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/1…

We have yet to see a book-length, single-authored academic work or dissertation on #CriticalRole, but Joe Lasley's dissertation (Leadership Studies), "An Examination of Gaming Environments in Dungeons and Dragons Groups" (2021) does make reference to CR. digital.sandiego.edu/dissertations/…

I expect that @MariaKAlberto's dissertation in progress on canon formations will be the first dissertation to include a full chapter on #CriticalRole

The only syllabus to include #CriticalRole *that has been submitted to CRBib* is my own Fall 2021 course, which had #ExU visitors @quiddie and @aimeecarrero hcommons.org/deposits/item/…

That said, I know @anitchang beat me by a semester, as his summer 2021 course addressed CR as part of its larger scope.

So, those are the milestones currently in the @CritRoleBib. But roots grow in the dark: my @AtPost45 intro will discuss CR alongside the other important actual plays past & present, & (fingies crossed, y'all) a #CriticalRole edited collection is in the works.

From Musicology to Political Theology to the History of Emotions to Pop Culture to Fan Studies to Statistics to the study of the Irish English Accent, scholars from a wide variety of fields have put their nerdy-ass talents to the study of #CriticalRole. To another #CR7Years!