Mia Consalvo

Biography

Mia Consalvo is the associate director of Graduate Studies and associate professor in the School of Media Arts & Studies at Ohio University. She teaches courses in the theory of digital games, digital games and global culture, cultural and critical theory, and textual analysis. She is the author of Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames (MIT Press, 2007), and she is currently co-editor of The Blackwell Handbook of Internet Studies with Charles Ess and Robert Burnett, to be published in 2009. Her research focuses on the hybrid character of the global games industry, as well as gender and sexuality as related to digital gameplay. She has published related work in The Video Game Theory Reader, as well as the journals Game Studies, Games and Culture, Television and New Media, and The International Review of Information Ethics.

Sessions

• Western Otaku: Games Crossing Cultures
  Wednesday, June 10

  2:00–3:00

  Browsing Library (2nd floor, West Central)