Agata Waszkiewicz is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Studies at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. They hold the position of Chair of the Central and Eastern European Chapter of the DiGRA organization (DiGRA CEE), are a member of the GamesLit conference committee, and are a member of the editorial board of Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture. Their research focuses on two main areas: cozy video games and the analysis of video games through literary lenses. They are an author of over twenty publications, including two books Metagames: Games About Games (2024) and Delicious Pixels: Food in Video Games (2022).