Nathan Kelber is a University of Maryland Ph.D. candidate whose research focuses on the early modern period and the digital humanities. In response to the work of eminent medieval cultural historian and play theorist Johan Huizinga, Kelber's work recovers play as a historical phenomenon while drawing upon diverse fields of the humanities and sciences. Investigating the long history of play, Kelber describes how the modern perspective of drama and games has shifted and what that might mean for game scholarship in the digital age. The recipient of numerous scholarships and fellowships, he has presented at major national and international conferences on topics including early modern theater, the phenomenology of the virtual, and computational stylistics.