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We here at CMS/W were excited to hear last week that many of our colleagues, including Professor of Comparative Media Studies T.L. Taylor, were named fellows by the Higher Education Video Game Alliance. Fellows, nominated by their peers, are recognized as “senior scholars in the games domain who have made significant contribution to the field in design, theory, or research.”
To highlight some of their incredible work, we thought we’d list the ones that have played a role in the academic life of CMS/W:
Faculty (current and past)
- T.L. Taylor, Professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT. Podcast: “Professional Play and the E-sports Industry”
- Eric Klopfer, Professor and Director of the Scheller Teacher Education Program and The Education Arcade
- Henry Jenkins, co-founder of MIT Comparative Media Studies and now at the University of Southern California. Video: “Henry Jenkins Returns”
Researchers (current and past)
- Scot Osterweil, Creative Director of the Education Arcade and the Game Lab. Podcast: Jane McGonigal discusses “SuperBetter” with MIT’s Scot Osterweil
- Mia Consalvo, Concordia University and former CMS/W visiting scholar. Podcast: “Western Otaku: Games Crossing Cultures”
- Jesper Juul, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Visiting Associate Professor at MIT. Podcast: “The Pain of Playing Video Games”
- Kurt Squire, Associate professor at the University of Wisconsin and former research manager of MIT’s Games-to-Teach project and past co-director of the MIT Education Arcade
Guest Speakers
- Ian Bogost, Georgia Tech. Podcast: “The Cartoonist and the Whaler: Notes on the Future of Journalism and Other Media”
- Mary Flanagan, Dartmouth College, “Humanist Inquiry Through Critical Play: Designing and Enacting our Enduring Questions”
- Tracy Fullerton, University of Southern California. Podcast: “Finer Fruits: Experiment in Life and Play at Walden”
- Frank Lantz, Director of the NYU Games Center. Podcast: “The Aesthetics of Games”
- Colleen Macklin, Associate Professor in the school of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design
- Michael Mateas, Department of Computational Media at UC Santa Cruz. Podcast: “The Authoring Challenge for Interactive Storytelling”
- Celia Pearce, Associate Professor of Game Design at Northeastern University. Podcast: “Identity-as-Place: Fictive Ethnicities in Online Games & Virtual Worlds”
