Jennifer Malkowski

Associate Professor of Film and Media at Smith College; working on digital media (games, digital cinema, Internet video), documentary, gender & sexuality, death

[Jennifer Malkowski @jmalkows]

Academics/filmmakers: my department at Smith is hiring a 3-year VAP, looking for a scholar (in experimental media, critical race studies in media, global cinema, or gender & sexuality in media) who can also teach some media production. Please circulate!
https://t.co/hAM2sbsTrk

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Game Studies folks, check out the amazing @ProfessorTMR's cfp for a guest edited special issue of the Journal of Play: Blackness @ Play: Communities, Culture, Creativity https://t.co/Pek6sx3fVa

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Honored to be a guest on the @bufferingcast podcast today talking about death and media representation in the Buffy episode "The Body." This was such a rewarding way to bring my academic research to a broader public: https://t.co/upgskxIw14

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FYI, a journal deadline extended: essay submissions to the special issue of American Literature on "American Game Studies" I'm co-editing with Patrick Jagoda are now due August 1, 2020. We're excited to read your work! https://t.co/Pzx5BmXvpp

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Excited to co-edit a special issue of the journal American Literature on "American Game Studies" with Patrick Jagoda. The deadline for essays is June 1, 2020. Hope to see work from some of you folks come in, and please spread the word! https://t.co/bqDP7fitYM

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Our 16-month-old knows about 20 words, but has started picking up random words from adults’ conversation. @BerkeleyKate and I were tickled when she made @algore her 21st word (22nd and 23rd were papyrus and Betelgeuse)

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@ProfessorTMR Followed! Let’s play some together!

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@NazcaTheMad @ProfessorTMR Just seeing this as I'm hardly ever on Twitter, but I am officially moving my next haircut up so that I can come prepared to the #fadefight. Game on!

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Happy to be in Seattle again for SCMS! If you're also here and want to hear some great ideas for teaching video game studies, come to our workshop Friday at 9 AM (Virginia room, 4th floor, Union St Tower) @ProfessorTMR @Ludology @sorayamurray @edmondchang

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@RavenGomez11 @DifferentGames @WPI_IMGD Would love that! I wish I were teaching a gaming class this semester to link it up with

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Film/Media friends: come be my colleague! Smith is hiring for an tenure-track job in moving image production. I'm really looking forward to having a new colleague joining me here at an amazing place to work. Please spread the word widely: https://t.co/DbC16zYbL6

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@sparklebliss Thanks for being game to Skype! I can't DM you here because you don't follow me, but if you follow I can send that or we can email

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@sparklebliss Wanna Skype with my students about Coin-operated Americans on Wednesday afternoon? Or send some quick 'n' dirty Q&As back and forth by video? No worries if not and I totally support you soaking up that well-earned parental leave!

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Can't wait to see everyone shortly at #SCMS18! And if you want to check out my talk, I'm on the panel "Remixing the Politics of Taste on Social Media," featuring authors from the forthcoming A Tumblr Book edited collection (Panel O20, Saturday at 1:00).

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TV studies folks: come be my colleague at Smith! We're hiring a 2-year VAP in global television studies. Please spread the word. Smith is a great place to teach! https://t.co/rfPBsWcU2D

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Come be my colleague in the Pioneer Valley! Digital media studies hire at Mount Holyoke. Let me know if you apply! https://t.co/OGD8fKRBJ8

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So happy to have such a great writer and thinker review by book! Many thanks, @klsycmmngs https://t.co/y4Gz3VmJTA

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@KeeganSLW @twinethreads Thanks, Keegan! And thanks for teaching me Twine in your great workshop

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French toast cradles & protects scone. Take-out box carries & protects both. How it ought to be, despite what your gender studies prof says.

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@edmondchang @ProfessorTMR Based on an email exchange with IUP today, I believe it's in print now! Author copies should be sent soon; they verify addresses first