Timothy Welsh
Timothy Welsh received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington in 2011. His research and teaching interests cluster around the intersection of modern literary and artistic practice and digital media studies. His book Mixed Realism: Videogames and the Violence of Fiction (University of Minnesota Press 2016), compares print novels and console videogames to present an approach to narrative fiction that responds to the expanded role of virtual environments in contemporary life.
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