So, I am working on a paper to argue that video games should be considered a literary art form worthy of academic study, as any other work of literature. This would include Gender Theory, Queer Theory, Social Class, and other forms of theory that can be applied to literary works. I would argue that one can take a game like World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy and study the story, characters, narrative, and visuals to dissect it to understand its fragments and ultimately its whole.
The purpose would be that professors would be able to teach classes, on an academic level, such as Video Game Character Design, Creative Writing for Video Games, or World Design. This would be on the same level as teaching programming or an arts degree with video games in mind. This would also include English classes on different levels (Victorian Literature, Colonial Literature, etc). There is a divide in the community on whether video games can even be used in an educational setting or is a gimmick. I.E: Minecraft being taught to special needs children to help them cope with the real world.
Anyway, I just wanted to see what people thought so I could get a feel where to start.