{"id":7,"name":"Roger Travis","url":"http:\/\/livingepic.org","description":"Roger Travis is Associate Professor of Classics in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages of the University of Connecticut. He is also the Director of the Video Games and Human Values Initiative (http:\/\/vghvinet.ning.com), based at UConn, an interdisciplinary online nexus for online courses and scholarly activities like fellowships, symposia, and the initiative\u2019s Proceedings, of which Travis is the editor. He received his Bachelor\u2019s degree in classics from Harvard College, and his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley before arriving at UConn in 1997. He has published on Homeric epic, Greek tragedy, Greek historiography, the 19th C. British novel, HALO, and the massively-multiplayer online role-playing game He has been President of the Classical Association of New England and of the Classical Association of Connecticut. He writes the blog Living Epic (http:\/\/livingepic.blogspot.com) about his discovery of the fundamental connection between ancient epic and the narrative video game. In the 2009-2010 academic year, Travis offered the first courses ever designed entirely as practomimes (see http:\/\/www.academicimpressions.com\/news.php?i=59 for detail), a form of serious game.","link":"http:\/\/www.playthepast.org?author_name=travis","slug":"travis","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c7a6e9a4811e11c227c2d814b3aef4c66b593f5304f6a560f928711e1c62bd4c?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c7a6e9a4811e11c227c2d814b3aef4c66b593f5304f6a560f928711e1c62bd4c?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c7a6e9a4811e11c227c2d814b3aef4c66b593f5304f6a560f928711e1c62bd4c?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":{"jetpack_donation_warning_dismissed":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.playthepast.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.playthepast.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}