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Timothy Welsh

Associate Dean and Associate Professor of English

Timothy Welsh
Timothy Welsh

Timothy J. Welsh is an Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University New Orleans. 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 “(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.

 

 

Degrees

Ph.D., University of Washington; M.Ed., University of Notre Dame; B.A., University of Notre Dame

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