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Timothy Welsh

Associate Professor

Education

Ph.D., University of Washington

M.Ed., University of Notre Dame

B.A., University of Notre Dame

Departments

  • College of Arts and Sciences
  • English

Bio

Timothy J. Welsh is an Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at 91ΑΤΖζ. He is the author of Mixed Realism: Videogames and the Violence of Fiction (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) as well as articles on video games, interactive narrative, and digital society such as β€œ(Re)Mastering Dark Souls” (Game Studies, 2021), "Doing Nothing in San Andreas: Contesting the Value of Play in Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V" (Configurations, 2024), and "Gaming in Ruins: Alienation and Hope in NieR: Automata" (Digital Culture & Society, 2025). He co-authored with Ed Chang Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide (Routledge Press, 2025). He is managing editor of the Journal of Games Criticism.

Classes Taught

  • Media and Mediation
  • How to Do Things with Videogames
  • Studies in Technoculture
  • Posthumanism
  • Reading Historically II
  • Narrative Across Media
  • Violence and Videogames
  • Videogames and Literature
  • Remix: Music, Art, Culture
  • Videogames and Literature
  • Web Composition
  • Cyberspaces of Everyday Life

Areas of Expertise

  • Digital Media Studies
  • 20th-Century US Fiction
  • Critical Theory
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