Professor Tanya Krzywinska
Professor of Digital Games
Tanya started playing computer-based games on Usenet when working at the Digital Equipment Corporation while doing her Masters in film. Several years later, after completing her PhD and teaching film and media, she realised that there was very little academic writing about video games and decided to remedy that. She gave her earliest paper on horror games at one of the first-ever academic conferences on games in 2000 and, soon after, edited with Geoff King the first collection of essays to be devoted to the study of the relationship between games and cinema. Since then, she has focused her attention mainly on games, with a particular interest in developing the use of games technologies and design in heritage contexts. She has also maintained her enthusiasm for the gothic and horror generally across various media.
Joining forces with Steve Jackson, a veteran of the games industry, in 2005, Tanya developed and convened a successful MA focused on videogame design, boasting 60% graduate employability in the games industry. Subsequently, a suite of BAs in Games Design were added to her portfolio of course development, most recently a single honours award in games design. She has joined Falmouth University to bring her expertise and experience to the development of a Digital Games Academy that will offer a suite of Games BA(Hons) and BSc(Hons) courses in Digital Game Art, Animation, Design, Music, Programming and Writing in 2014. She supervises PhD students on the Games Doctoral programme.
Over the course of her career, Tanya has had published many articles and books on screen-based and interactive media fiction. She became president of the Digital Games Research Association in 2006 and has been the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Games and Culture, published by Sage https://journals.sagepub.com/home/gac. The journal has an impact factor of 1.574 and a 5-year impact factor of 1.685. She is also an artist with a studio at Krowji, Redruth. www.tanyakrzywinska.com
Joining forces with Steve Jackson, a veteran of the games industry, in 2005, Tanya developed and convened a successful MA focused on videogame design, boasting 60% graduate employability in the games industry. Subsequently, a suite of BAs in Games Design were added to her portfolio of course development, most recently a single honours award in games design. She has joined Falmouth University to bring her expertise and experience to the development of a Digital Games Academy that will offer a suite of Games BA(Hons) and BSc(Hons) courses in Digital Game Art, Animation, Design, Music, Programming and Writing in 2014. She supervises PhD students on the Games Doctoral programme.
Over the course of her career, Tanya has had published many articles and books on screen-based and interactive media fiction. She became president of the Digital Games Research Association in 2006 and has been the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Games and Culture, published by Sage https://journals.sagepub.com/home/gac. The journal has an impact factor of 1.574 and a 5-year impact factor of 1.685. She is also an artist with a studio at Krowji, Redruth. www.tanyakrzywinska.com
| tanya.krzywinska@falmouth.ac.uk | |
| Telephone | 01326 259357 (ext 59357) |
Research Outputs
Publications and research outputs
Article
Krzywinska, Tanya  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144, Phillips, Tim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7762-9742, Parker, Alcwyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2374-1229 and Scott, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6803-1490 (2020) From Immersion’s Bleeding Edge to the Augmented Telegrapher: A Method for Creating Mixed Reality Games for Museum and Heritage Contexts. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 13 (4). ISSN 1556-4673 | |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 (2019) “Everything is True”: Urban Gothic meets the Chthulucene in Multiplayer Online Game, The Secret World. Item availability may be restricted. | ![[img]](http://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/text.png) |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 (2016) Dangerous Agencies: Norns, Games and Aesthetics of Emergence. Dangerous Women Project, no volume number. ISSN no Issn | |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 (2016) Dangerous Agencies: Norns, Games and Aesthetics of Emergence. Dangerous Women Project, no volume number. ISSN no Issn | |
| Perez Ferrer, Blanca, Colton, Simon, Powley, Edward ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144, Geelhoed, Erik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7152-1186 and Cook, Michael (2016) Gamika: Art Based Game Design. Art/Games, Beginnings (1). pp. 18-24. | |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 (2015) The Gamification of Gothic Coordinates. Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural, 1 (1). pp. 58-78. ISSN 2397 8791 | |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 (2015) Gaming Horror’s horror: Representation, Regulation and Affect in Horror Videogames. Journal of Visual Culture, The Design and Componentry of Horror (14(3)). pp. 293-297. ISSN 14704129 | |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 (2014) Conspiracy Hermeneutics: The Secret World as Weird Tale. Well Played: a journal on video games, value and meaning, 3 (2). pp. 123-143. ISSN 2164-344X | |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 (2006) Blood Scythes, Festivals, Quests and Backstories: World Creation and Rhetorics of Myth in World of Warcraft. Games and Culture, 1 (4). pp. 383-396. ISSN 1555-4139 |
Book Section
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 (2018) Playing the Intercorporeal: Frankenstein's Legacy for Games. In: Global Frankenstein. Studies in Global Science Fiction . Palgrave Macmillian UK, London, pp. 283-300. ISBN 9783319781419 Item availability may be restricted. | |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 (2017) Gothic American Gaming. In: Cambridge Companion to the American Gothic. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 229-242. ISBN https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316337998 | |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 (2016) Formations of Player Agency and Gender in Gothic Video Games. In: Women and the Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh University, pp. 214-227. ISBN 9780748699124 Item availability may be restricted. | |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 and Brown, Douglas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6662-6629 (2015) Games, Gamers and Posthumanism. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television. Palgrave Handbooks . Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK, pp. 192-201. ISBN 9781349577019 Item availability may be restricted. | |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 and Brown, Douglas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6662-6629 (2015) Games, Gamers and Posthumanism. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television. Palgrave Macmillian UK, London, pp. 192-201. ISBN 9781137430328 (online) 9781349577019 (print) | |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 and Brown, Douglas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6662-6629 (2015) Online Games and Genre. In: International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society. John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 978-1-118-29074-3 Item availability may be restricted. | |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 (2014) Digital Games and the American Gothic: Investigating Gothic Game Grammar. In: A companion to American Gothic. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 503-516. ISBN 9780470671870 Item availability may be restricted. | |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 (2013) Transmedial Aesthetics: Where form and content meet - Film and Videogames. In: Content and Representation. International Companions to Media Studies . Blackwell-Wiley, Oxford, UK. ISBN 978-1405193566 |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 (2012) The Strange Case of the Misappearance of Sex in Videogames. In: Computer Games and New Media Cultures: A Handbook of Digital Games Studies. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany. ISBN 978-94-007-2777-9 | |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 (2009) Movie-games and Game-movies: Towards an aesthetics of transmediality. In: Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies. Routledge/AFI, New York, USA. ISBN 978-0415962629 |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 (2008) Arachne v. Minerva: The Spinning out of long narrative in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and World of Warcraft. In: Third Person: authoring and exploring vast narratives. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. ISBN 9780262232630 |
Conference or Workshop Item
| Scott, Michael James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6803-1490, Parker, Alcwyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2374-1229, Powley, Edward ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7317-7304, Saunders, Rob, Lee, Jenny, Herring, Phoebe, Brown, Douglas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6662-6629 and Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 (2018) Towards an Interaction Blueprint for Mixed Reality Experiences in GLAM Spaces: The Augmented Telegrapher at Porthcurno Museum. In: Proceedings of the 32nd BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference, 2-6 July, 2018, Belfast, NI. | |
Book
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144, MacCallum-Stewart, Esther and Parsler, Justin, eds. (2011) Ring Bearers: The Lord of the Rings Online as Intertextual Narrative. Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK. ISBN 978-0719082924 |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 and Atkins, Barry, eds. (2007) Videogame, Player, Text. Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK. ISBN 978-0-7190-7400-4 |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 and King, Geoff (2005) Tomb Raiders and Space Invaders: Video Games in the 21st Century. I B Tauris, unknown. ISBN 978-1850438144 |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 and King, Geoff, eds. (2002) ScreenPlay: cinema/videogames/interfaces. Wallflower Press, unknown. ISBN 190336423X |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 and King, Geoff (2000) Science Fiction Cinema: From Outerspace to Cyberspace. Wallflower Press, unknown. ISBN 978-1903364031 |
| Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 (2000) A Skin for Dancing In: Witchcraft, Possession and Voodoo in Film. Flicks Books, unknown. ISBN 978-0275976552 |
Project
| Geelhoed, Erik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7152-1186 and Krzywinska, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-4144 (2017) Games Research Opportunities and Research Excellence in Cornwall and the EU (project): GRO / ERA. [Project] (Unpublished) Item not available from this repository. |