Max José Dreysse Passos De Carvalho is a PhD candidate and researcher in the American Studies Department. He got his B.A. at Gutenberg University Mainz, and his M.A. at Goethe University Frankfurt. 

He is editor and frequent contributor to adaptinglovecraft.com, an online blog wrestling with all things H.P. Lovecraft. In the same vein he coedited The Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft together with Tim Lanzendörfer. 

His PhD research is part of the DfG-funded project Spiel|Erfahrung: Kunst und (Post-)Kritik in Transmedialen Kontexten zwischen Spielen und Literatur. In it, he investigates the aesthetics of games (esp. video games), particularly as they relate to the notions of art and commodity.