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Judith Pintar

Teaching Associate Professor

PhD, Sociology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Room 329, 501 E. Daniel St.

jpintar@illinois.edu

Research focus

Game studies and design, narrative AI and the data undead, persuasion, propaganda and misinformation, trauma and memory studies, Southeastern & Central European studies, digital literacies and gameful pedagogies.

Biography

Pintar is a teaching associate professor at the iSchool and serves as the director of the Game Studies and Design Program. Her research and teaching interests include narrative design, game studies, and gameful pedagogies which she pursues through the Extended Literatures & Literacies Lab (EL3).

Courses currently teaching

Office hours

By appointment, please contact professor

Presentations

"Course Design for Well-being: A Students' Bill of Rights," Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning, September 1, 2022.

In the News

Pintar and Hopping’s new book explores the basics of information science February 14 2023

iSchool researchers present work at Playful by Design Conference January 17 2023

iSchool instructors ranked as excellent March 28 2022

iSchool instructors ranked as excellent April 5 2021

iSchool participation in iConference 2021 March 16 2021

Pintar to serve as project manager for Training in Digital Methods for Humanists November 5 2020

iSchool faculty present at digital humanities conference October 26 2020

iSchool instructors ranked as excellent for Summer 2020 September 24 2020

iSchool instructors ranked as excellent September 2 2020

New HRI Research Clusters include iSchool faculty July 6 2020