Esports isn’t all fun and games. It’s big business, a source for cultural and educational enrichment, an area of human performance science, and, for a professor at Slippery Rock University, a serious field for scholarly work.
Seth Jenny, an SRU associate professor of exercise science, is one of the leading global experts in esports education and curriculum design. He’s the senior editor of the first interdisciplinary textbooks about competitive video gaming, titled “Routledge Handbook of Esports,” released in fall of 2024.
The comprehensive 764-page text features 62 chapters and contributions from 93 authors across 27 countries. The book, which explores the rapid growth of esports within the sports and entertainment industries, covers 10 key themes, including esports research, esports business and management and global esports cultures, with Jenny co-authoring 17 chapters, nine as lead author and two as a solo author.
