Péter Makai Hired as Assistant Professor in Game Studies at Kazimierz Wielki University in Poland
07.09.2022
Péter Kristóf Makai, who recently completed his Landhaus Fellowship at the Rachel Carson Center, researching how computer and board games represent and simulate climate change, was hired as assistant professor of game studies at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. At Kazimierz Wielki, he will be teaching a variety of subjects related to the humanistic study of games, including introductory courses, worldbuilding, and serious games. With Ágnes Karolina Bakk, he is editing Theorising and Designing Immersive Environments: Enchanting Spaces (forthcoming in 2023). Previously, he worked as a KWI International Fellow at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen in 2021 and was the Crafoord Postdoctoral Research Fellow in intermedial and multimodal studies at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden. He obtained his PhD in English literature and literary theory from the University of Szeged, Hungary, writing about the representation of autism in literature and literary theory. He regularly published works on the intersection of science fiction and Tolkien studies on the one hand and games studies on the other. An avid cyclist and hiker, he one day hopes to complete the 1160 kilometer-long National Blue Trail of Hungary and holds a Level 3 Award from the Wine and Spirits Education Trust.
The RCC would like to warmly congratulate Péter on this new position!