Colton Barton is a current M.A. student in the English department at the University of Kentucky, where he also received his B.S. in English and B.A. in Gender & Women's Studies. His research focuses on queer embodiment and expressions of gender and sexuality in depictions of the future. In his previous work, he looked at queer narratives in video games, which culminated in his undergraduate thesis titled "Exploring Queer Transgressive Play Through Role-Playing Games: The Queer Potential of Dragon Age: Inquisition."