Judith Pintar

Teaching Associate Professor and Acting BS/IS Program Director
PhD, Sociology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Research focus
Social Informatics, interactive AI and suggestibility, and the development of tools to foster programming literacy through collaborative game design, interactive digital narrative, and playful pedagogies; social narrative approaches to trauma and memory studies.
Biography
Pintar serves as acting BS/IS program director at the iSchool and director of Games @ Illinois: Playful Design for Transformative Education. Her research and teaching interests include digital storytelling, game studies, and the development of interactive and narrative AI, which she pursues through the Electronic Literatures & Literacies Lab (EL3), an Informatics initiative.
Courses currently teaching
- Summer 2022 - Independent Study - IS189JAP
- Summer 2022 - Independent Study - IS389JAP
- Fall 2022 - Intro to Information Sciences - IS101AD1
- Fall 2022 - Intro to Information Sciences - IS101AD2
- Fall 2022 - Intro to Information Sciences - IS101AD3
- Fall 2022 - Intro to Information Sciences - IS101AD4
- Fall 2022 - Intro to Information Sciences - IS101AD5
- Fall 2022 - Intro to Information Sciences - IS101AD6
- Fall 2022 - Intro to Information Sciences - IS101AL
- Fall 2022 - Independent Study - IS389JAP
Office hours
By appointment, please contact professor