Dr. Krystina Madej retired as Professor of the Practice in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech, Atlanta in August 2022. At Tech since 2011, her research concerned how humans adapted their narratives to changing media throughout the centuries. The main topics about which she has written include how disability is represented in narrative children’s video games, the use of social media to tell our stories, how children interact physically with narrative digital games, and Disney’s approach to stories across media since the 1920s. Adjunct Professor with the School for Interactive Art and Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, for ten years, she taught as Visiting Professor for the Center for Digital Media’s Master’s degree program. She is research faculty at University of Lower Silesia (DSW), Wroclaw, Poland where as Visiting Professor she has taught Disney History and Children’s Game Design for the Erasmus Program, Design Thinking and History of Social Media for the Big Data, Digital Media, and Trendwatching Master’s Program, and Virtual Reality in journalistic-based games. Prior to returning to academia in 1999, she was principal of a communications and design firm for 15 years, where, as design strategist, she planned and created successful branding programs and exhibits for government, business, industry, and museums.
Books:
Representation of Disability in Children’s Games (2024)
Disney Stories: Getting to Digital, 2nd Edition (2020)
Physical Play and Children’s Digital Games (2016)
Interactivity, Collaboration, and Authoring in Social Media (2016)
Disney Stories: Getting to Digital (2012)
Engaging Imagination and Developing Creativity (2010)
Affiliations:
Current
Research Professor, University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, Poland
Past
Professor of the Practice, School of Literature, Media and Communication, Georgia Tech
Visiting Professor, Masters of Digital Media Program, Center for Digital Media, Vancouver
Adjunct Professor, School for Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada