Jean Ketterling (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies – Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Saskatchewan. Her interdisciplinary research is informed by feminist and queer theories and focuses on representations of sex in video games. She is particularly interested in how video games represent sex, their ability to make space for experimental sexual play, and how sexual content in video games is promoted, controlled, and regulated by platforms. Her current research focuses on the social, cultural, legal and economic factors that shape the production, distribution, and consumption of pornographic video games. Recently, her work has appeared in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies, Surveillance & Society and Feminist Media Studies.

Jean completed her PhD in Legal Studies from Carleton University in Ottawa, where she was a Vanier Scholar. She holds an MA in Legal Studies from Carleton University and a BA in Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies from St. Francis Xavier University.

She is currently the communications officer for the Sexuality Studies Association (SSA) and the vice president of the Canadian Game Studies Association (CGSA)

Jean is dedicated to research-driven, innovative pedagogical approaches. Most recently, she published “Ungrading Game Making: Incentivizing Creativity and Risk-Taking for Inexperienced Makers” in the JCMS Teaching Media Dossier. In 2023/24, she served as a faculty mentor in Mount Allison University’s first-generation student mentorship program and was awarded a J.E.A. Crake Humanities Projects Grant for a workshop she developed, entitled "Clay / Bodies: Feminist and Queer Theory and Craft."