Colton Barton is a current M.A. student in the English department at the University of Kentucky, where he also received his B.S. in English and B.A. in Gender & Women's Studies. His areas of interest include twentieth and twenty-first century speculative fiction and horror; particularly, his research looks at queer temporalities and uses of space in depictions of the future. In the past, he studied queer narratives in video games, which culminated in his undergraduate thesis titled "Exploring Queer Transgressive Play Through Role-Playing Games: The Queer Potential of Dragon Age: Inquisition."

His LinkedIn can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colton-barton-2b276413a.