Keita Moore received his PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his MA from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He specializes in the sociocultural politics and dynamics of Japanese videogames as they move between game texts, game designer discourses, and the wider public sphere. He is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the ways in which diverse constellations of social actors converged around narratives of videogame play time, the spaces and places of digital play, and the administration of childhood in the early history of the medium.

Other research interests include the transmedia representations of multiracial individuals in Japan, how gender is worked and reworked within videogames, and the interplay between media and the spaces of their consumption. He teaches courses on Japanese culture, modern and contemporary cultural production, media studies, literature, and content localization.

Moore’s work can be found in Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us (Duke University Press: 2024), the forthcoming The Handbook of Japanese Games and Gameplay (Amsterdam University Press: 2024), and the Journal of Asian Studies.

Prior to entering academia, Moore spent several years as an in-house localization specialist with Square Enix in Tokyo, where he translated games including FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn.