Comments on: So This Is Growing Up

By: Rev. Bob

Rev. Bob — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:00:57 +0000

If you’ve got a little math or computer science, look at Janet Murray’s CV. She’s the author of Hamlet on the Holodeck, and the second smartest person I’ve ever met. I can’t find a current university affiliation for the smartest, Tom Meyer, of WAXWEB fame, but it’s worth a little search time.

By: Dan Jacobson

Dan Jacobson — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:54:25 +0000

I’m currently in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at the University of Missouri Kansas City. It’s sort of a design-your-own curriculum kind of thing, and I’m using it for cartooning and comics, so I’m sure you could make a case for gaming. The program also feeds into an interdisciplinary PhD for those who are interested. Also, it’s comparatively inexpensive to live in Kansas City, so you won’t have to feel like you have to be constantly working in non-school jobs just to survive, to the detriment of your studies.

Information on the MALS program is available at http://www.umkc.edu/umkc/catalog/html/as/lbrl%2Dst/

By: KC

KC — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:00:27 +0000

With your mix of interests I think you definitely have to check out the University of California at Santa Cruz, especially UCSC’s program in the History of Consciousness.. From the web site:

Over more than 30 years of existence, the history of consciousness program has won increasing recognition as a leader of interdisciplinary scholarship. Program graduates are prolific scholars at prominent universities, and dissertations have been published by major publishing houses and academic presses. Graduates currently find academic employment in a wide range of disciplines, including literature, women’s studies, science studies, anthropology, sociology, American studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, communications, and philosophy. In addition, history of consciousness graduates can be found as filmmakers, museum researchers, freelance writers, postdoctoral researchers, and academic administrators.

By: JLG

JLG — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:08:43 +0000

I’m not familiar with many schools, only the one I went to, University of Iowa. MMORPGs could fall under Cinema & Comparative Studies there, I think. I managed to have a paper tying a video game into a narrative theory class (that professor noted other grad students were doing projects on games too), and took a class on US film and “cinematic TV,” so there are plenty of professors who are pretty open. Rob Latham is a great professor on SF lit (he had a great New Wave SF class that had a nice and informative section for feminist SF fiction), and the UoI library has a pretty extensive collection of fanzines now. The creative writing department, as is well-known, is top notch. So there’s my biased plug.

Good luck in your search!