Welsh

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Middle Name

Jacob

Last name

Welsh

Position

Assistant Professor of Digital Media

Institution

Department of English, Loyola University New Orleans

Website

http://timothyjwelsh.com

Brief Bio

I am an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Loyola University New Orleans. I am interested in intersections of contemporary literary techniques and digital media, particularly narrative videogames. My current project, “Immersive Fictions: Modern Narrative, New Media, Mixed Reality,” presents an approach to narrative media that responds to the expanded role of virtual environments in contemporary life.

Full Bio

I am an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Loyola University New Orleans. I completed a doctorate in English at the University of Washington, with an emphasis on twentieth-century US fiction and new media. Prior to attending UW, I received an M.Ed. from the University of Notre Dame while volunteer teaching at St. Louis High School in Louisiana.

A version of my M.A. essay, “Everyday Play: Cruising for Leisure in San Andreas,” appears in the collection The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto. For my current project, “Immersive Fictions: Modern Narrative, New Media, Mixed Reality,” in which I read metafictional practices in recent novels alongside console video games in order to develop approach to narrative media that responds to the expanded role of virtual environments in contemporary life. My teaching and research interests include modern and postmodern fiction, literary and critical theory, contemporary art, media studies, and video games.

I formerly served as assistant director of the English department's computer-integrated courses and have enjoyed finding and sharing innovative ways of using digital media in my pedagogy. In addition, I was a founding member of the Critical Gaming Project at the University of Washington, an interdisciplinary collaboration aimed at promoting the study of videogames as meaningful and significant cultural artifacts.