Bryce Stout
Bio
I’m originally from Des Moines, IA. My past academic work has focused on gender and power in esports. My dissertation is focused on the people involved in establishing an esports presence on NC State’s campus.
Publications
(Scholl, B. & Stout, B., 2024). North American Esports in Routledge Handbook of Esports.
(Stout, B., 2023). A Beautiful Accident: Review of Melee is Broken. MAJORzine Issue 9.
(Nolla, K., Stout, B., Rosenthal, A., 2022). Governance Problems in the Competitive Super
Smash Bros. Community. Journal of Electronic Gaming and Esports Diversity
and Sustainability in Electronic Gaming and Esports’ Special Issue. (Accepted)
(Dufresne, K. & Stout, B., 2021). Anchorhold Afference: Virtual Reality, Radical Compassion,
and Embodied Positionality. C&C ’21: Creativity and Cognition Conference Proceeding
(Taylor, N. & Stout, B., 2020). Gender and the two-tiered system of collegiate esports. Critical Media Studies in Communication.
Presentations
(Stout, B., 2025). HOPE (Game). CRDM Symposium 2025. Raleigh, NC.
(Stout, B., 2024). Control in Yu-Gi-Oh!: Physical Versus Digital Cardboard. AMPS Conference
2024 – Arizona + Virtual: Society. Spaces. Screens. Tempe, AZ.
(Stout, B., 2023). The State of Collegiate Esports in North Carolina. IMC Conference:
Innovation, Meaning, and Communication in Integrated Marketing Communication. Wilmington, NC.
(Stout, B., 2023). Yu-Gi-Oh! Free Play. Carolina Rhetoric Conference 2023: Free Play.
Columbia, SC.
(Stout, B., 2022). Rise of the Resistance: Being a Glitch and Resisting Disney’s Star Wars
Overhaul. Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Symposium 2022: Infrastructure and/as Anticolonialism. Raleigh, NC.
(Stout, B., 2022). Execute Order 626: Star Wars Miniatures and The Stitch. Triangle Film Salon:
“Adaptation” 2022 Graduate Student Conference. Chapel Hill, NC.
(Stout, B., 2021). Bans: How and Why?. Eyes Open Conference: Safety,
Diversity, and Inclusivity in Smash 2021. (Online)
(Mejeur, C., Foxman, M., Cote, A., Scholz, T., Taylor, N., Stout, B., Romine, M., Brewer, J.,
Yoon, K., & Fickle, T., 2021). Entering the Arena: Critical Issues in the Institutionalization of Esports. International Communication Association Conference 2021. (Online, COVID-19)
(Dufresne, K. & Stout, B., 2021). Anchorhold Afferance. C&C ’21: Creativity and Cognition.
(Online, COVID-19)
(Stout, B., 2020). Years of Research: Top Player Privilege. Eyes Open Conference: Safety,
Diversity, and Inclusivity in Smash. (Online, COVID-19)
(Stout, B. 2020). Everyone is Here? An Ethnographic Exploration of Competitive Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. At the Crossroads: Narratives of the Excluded. (Online, COVID-19)
(Mejeur, C., Foxman, M., Cote, A., Scholz, T., Taylor, N., Stout, B., & Romine, M. 2020). Entering the Arena: Critical Issues in the Institutionalization of Esports. DiGRA 2020, Tampere, Finland. (Accepted, conference cancelled due to COVID-19)
(Stout, B., 2020). Hegemonic Hand Movements: Microethnography of Mimetics in Smash. North Carolina State University Graduate Research Symposium, Raleigh, NC. (Accepted, conference cancelled due to COVID-19)
(Taylor, N. & Stout, B., 2019). Gender and the two-tiered system of collegiate esports. ReFiG 2019 Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Education
A.A. Liberal Arts Des Moines Area Community College 2013
B.A. Sociology University of Iowa 2017
M.S. Communication North Carolina State University 2020