James Paul Gee is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies and Regents' Professor. He is a member of the National Academy of Education. Gee's book Sociolinguistics and Literacies (Fifth Edition, 2015) was one of the founding documents in the formation of the "New Literacy Studies". His book An Introduction to Discourse Analysis (Fourth Edition, 2014) brings together his work on a methodology for studying communication in its cultural settings, an approach that has been widely influential over the last two decades. Gee's most recent books have dealt with video games, language, and learning. What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (Second Edition 2007) argues that good video games are designed to enhance learning through effective learning principles supported by research in the learning sciences. Situated Language and Learning (2004) places video games within an overall theory of learning and literacy and shows how they can help us in thinking about the reform of schools. The Anti-Education Era: Creating Smarter Students through Digital Media appeared in 2013 and Literacy and Education in 2014. He is currently writing a new book, Reconceiving Teaching, Learning, Literacy, and Development in our High-Risk High-Tech World Before it's Too Late. The book will appear in 2017 from Teachers College Press. The book offers a cross-disciplinary view of the role of language, learning, literacy, and identity in development. It also highlights new types of teaching and learning that are emerging out of schools thanks to digital technologies. Finally, the book places human development in the context of the serious problems we face in today's high-risk, fast-changing, and highly polarized world. Gee has published widely in journals in linguistics, psychology, the social sciences, and education.