Grace Hagood is a doctoral student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of South Carolina. Her scholarly interests include game studies, new media, digital humanities, and women's studies. She has a background in commercial game design, including "Fallen Earth," winner of Game Industry News' 2009 Game of the Year award for Best Online Game, and "Fallen Earth: Bloodsports."
In 2010, Grace participated in the Humanities Gaming Institute, a three week long institute sponsored by U.SC's Center for Digital Humanities and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Grace worked on the NEH-funded serious game "Desperate Fishwives," a game of social drama and community interaction in early modern England. She has presented papers about "Desperate Fishwives" at the 2011 Popular Culture Association and the 2012 CCCC. Grace currently is researching movement as an invention trope in games and composition.