Garrelts received his PhD in American Studies from Michigan State University (2003). His dissertation was titled The Official Strategy Guide for Video Game Studies: A Grammar and Rhetoric.9 He is currently Professor of English at Ferris State University.10
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"Nathan Garrelts". Ferris State University. Retrieved 9 October 2016. http://www.ferris.edu/arts-sciences/departments/languages-and-literature/lang-lit-faculty-staff/nathan-garrelts.htm ↩