Andrei Nae is a lecturer and PhD at the University of Bucharest and an associate lecturer at Echo School of Technology, Digital Arts and Video Games, in partnership with Abertay University, where they teach courses and seminars on video games and twentieth-century and contemporary English literature. They also are a postdoctoral researcher at “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, where their work focuses on the ideological functions of paraliterature.

Their research interests include ludology, cultural studies, and narratology. They have been involved in several research projects, the most notable being “Colonial Discourse in Video Games”, funded by UEFISCDI, where they served as project director.

Among their main publications are the monograph Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games (Routledge, 2021), the article “From Saviour to Colonial Perpetrator: Manipulating Player Empathy in Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill Origins” published in Parallax in 2022 in the special issue Gaming and Affect edited by Laurent Milesi, and the collective volume Video Games between Postcolonialism and Postcommunism published by De Gruyter in 2025.