David O’Grady is a lecturer in the Department of Design Media Arts at UCLA, and a long-time staff member of the UCLA Game Lab. He also serves as Co-Director of UCLA Game Lab’s Summer Institute program. David has taught digital media theory and culture at California State University, Long Beach, and courses on media history and video games at UCLA.

His scholarly work reflects interests in interactive digital media, videogames, contemporary cinema, and documentary film. Publications include How to Play Video Games (NYU Press, 2019), various entries in the Encyclopedia of Video Games: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming (2021 and 2012), a chapter on cutscenes and time in video games in The Game Culture Reader (2013), and an essay on Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou for the journal New Review of Film and Television Studies (March 2012).