Mia Consalvo to speak at Colloquium

Mia Consalvo, Canada Research Chair in Game Studies and Design at Concordia University in Montreal, has been confirmed to speak at the Mensa Foundation's Colloquium on social and video gaming.

Dr. Consalvo is the author of Cheating: Gaining Advantage of Videogames and is currently writing a book about Japan's influence on the videogame industry and game culture. She has published her work in Critical Studies in Media Communication, Games & Culture, Game Studies, Convergence and many other journals. She has presented her work at professional as well as academic conferences including regular presentations at the Game Developers Conference. She is the President of the Association of Internet Researchers and has held positions at MIT, Ohio University, Chubu University in Japan and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. And she recently participated in the Mensa Foundation's Conversations with Mensa podcast series.