2025 Speakers
Anne Ladyem McDivitt, Academic Technology Specialist, Stanford University Libraries and Department of History
Anne Ladyem McDivitt is the Academic Technology Specialist for the Department of History at Stanford University, as well as a member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research at Stanford University Libraries. She has a background in digital public history and specializes in digital storytelling. She published her monograph Hot Tubs and Pac-Man: Gender and the Early Video Game Industry in the United States in 2020, as well as articles on video game studies, podcasting in education, and on advertising in Playboy Magazine in the 1970s and 1980s. Outside of academia, she co-hosts two weekly podcasts—one on video games, anime, and manga and another focusing episode-by-episode on multiple anime series. She also streams weekly on Twitch, where she exclusively plays unrealistic fishing games and fishing mini-games while wearing goofy fishing themed shirts
