Dr Richard Bingham

Profile

I teach and research digital cultures with a focus on how cultural practices of representation and interpretation engage the complex structures and affordances of digital objects. I received my PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2020 following the completion of my dissertation, “Digital Natives: Imagining the Millennial in Twenty-First Century Fiction”. My current research explores how online communities of hackers reinterpret videogame narratives while recompiling and modifying game source code, and the broader implications such practices have for understanding the “meaning” of digital texts.

Teaching

In 2026-27 I am teaching:

• STA7010 Theories and Critical Concepts of Digital Media and Global Culture
• STA7009 Digital Global Audiences and Participatory Culture
• STA7008 Digital Methods and Ethics in Digital Media and Cultures
• STA7007 Digital Media and Global Cultures Dissertation
• LIB5203 Digital Culture and Society

In the past I have also taught on:

• SML4006 Culture and Language

Research

Publications

Bingham, Richard, ‘At the Multiface: Encounters with Depthiness in Majora’s Mask’, Games & Game Studies Beyond Postmodernism, eds. Nataliya Gorbina et al. (De Gruyter, forthcoming)

Bingham, Richard, ‘Engine Interpretation: Time and Temporality in Zelda 64’, Games as Creative and Cultural Forms: New Perspectives in Game Studies, eds. Alessandra Micalizzi et al. (Springer, forthcoming)

Bingham, Richard, ‘“My generation, her generation, blah blah blah’: Forms of Generationality in the Millennial Novel’, The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel, ed. by Loïc Bourdeau and Christopher Lloyd (Edinburgh University Press, 2025)

Bingham, Richard, ‘The Master Clock’, Heterotopias 009 (2022), pp. 112-122,

https://www.heterotopiaszine.com/009-2/ [accessed 12 February 2025]

Bingham, Richard, ‘Zadie Smith’s Nonhuman Turns’, Textual Practice, 36.2 (2022), pp. 454-472, doi:10.1080/0950236X.2022.2030120

Bingham, Richard, ‘The Disabled Body Under Surveillance Capitalism’, C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 8.1 (2020), pp. 41-28, doi:10.16995/c21.1770

Bingham, Richard, ‘Identifying with Our Contemporaries’, Alluvium, 7.1 (2019), n. pag. doi:10.7766/alluvium.v7.03

Supervision

I am currently not accepting PhD students. I encourage you to explore other research staff in the department whose work may align with your interests.