Christopher B. Patterson

Christopher B. Patterson is associate professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games (New York University Press, 2020) and Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific (2018). Under his pen name Kawika Guillermo, he has published Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir (Duke University Press, 2023), Stamped: an anti-travel novel (Westphalia Press, 2018)...See more

Christopher B. Patterson is associate professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games (New York University Press, 2020) and Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific (2018). Under his pen name Kawika Guillermo, he has published Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir (Duke University Press, 2023), Stamped: an anti-travel novel (Westphalia Press, 2018), and All Flowers Bloom (Westphalia Press, 2020). See less