Nicholas (Nick) Taylor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University. He received tenure in 2018, during his 10-year stint in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University, where he also served for two years as Director of the interdisciplinary PhD program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (CRDM).

Nick combines critical and ethnographic approaches to analyze the subjectivities, communities, and industries associated with professionalized leisure practices. His work has appeared in journals such as Convergence, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and New Media & Society. He is also the lead editor of Masculinities in Play (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), the first volume on the intersections of masculinities and games, and LEGOfied: Building Blocks as Media (Bloomsbury, 2020).

During the 2022-23 academic year, he will serve as the Högskolestiftelsen Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies at Åbo Akademi University in Vaasa, Finland.

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Nicholas (Nick) Taylor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University. He received tenure in 2018, during his 10-year stint in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University, where he also served for two years as Director of the interdisciplinary PhD program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (CRDM).

Nick combines critical and ethnographic approaches to analyze the subjectivities, communities, and industries associated with professionalized leisure practices. His work has appeared in journals such as Convergence, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and New Media & Society. He is also the lead editor of Masculinities in Play (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), the first volume on the intersections of masculinities and games, and LEGOfied: Building Blocks as Media (Bloomsbury, 2020).

During the 2022-23 academic year, he will serve as the Högskolestiftelsen Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies at Åbo Akademi University in Vaasa, Finland.

Research Interests

Current Courses

Upcoming Courses