Curriculum vitae Prof. dr. Joost Raessens (short)
- Name: Joost Raessens.
- Address:
Titiaanstraat 19 - I, 1077 RD
- Telephone:
+31 20 4894108 / +31 6 11340241.
- Date of
Birth: 18 February 1960.
- E-mail:
J.Raessens@uu.nl.
- Website:
www.raessens.com, www.raessens.nl.
- 2007:
Senior research qualification, Utrecht University (UU).
- 2005:
Senior teaching qualification, UU.
- 2003/2004:
Training program academic leadership, UU.
- 2001:
PhD in Philosophy at the
- 1994:
Diplôme d’études approfondies (DEA) en recherches cinématographiques
et audiovisuelles, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III (très
bien).
- 1994:
MA in Film and Performing Arts at the Faculty of Arts, Radboud University
Nijmegen (RUN) (cum laude).
- 1993:
MA in Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, RUN (cum laude).
- 1987: Minor
in French Language and Literature at the Faculty of Arts, RUN.
- Academic
positions
- May 2009-to date: Professor of Media Theory,
Department of Media and Culture Studies, UU.
- April 2006-July 2006: Visiting Professor at the
Department of Communication Studies,
- November
2004-January 2005: Visiting Fellow at the Center for Ideas and
Society/Film and Visual Culture,
- 2002-April
2009: Associate Professor New Media and Digital Culture, Department of
Media and Culture Studies, UU.
- 2001-2002:
Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Culture Studies, UU.
- 1998-2001:
Lecturer, Department of Media and Culture Studies, UU.
- 1994-1998:
Lecturer, Faculty of Arts,
- Research
and management tasks
- 2006-2012:
Project leader of the research program Design Rules for Learning through
Simulated Worlds, GATE-program.
- 2005-2010:
Project leader of the research program Playful Identities, Netherlands
Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). In
collaboration with Prof. dr. Jos de Mul (EUR) and Prof. dr. Valerie
Frissen (TNO/EUR).
- 2003:
Conference chair Level Up. Digital Games Research Conference 2003 (4th,
5th and 6th November), organized by the Faculty of Arts (UU) in
collaboration with the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA).
- 2001-to
date: Director of the MA New Media and Digital Culture, UU.
- Fellowship 2008-2009
for dr. D. W. Shaffer, Professor of Educational Psychology, University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Research project: Assessment Frameworks for Epistemic
Games. Marie Curie Actions, International Incoming Fellowships (IIF). In
collaboration with Prof. dr. Paul Kirschner, Faculty of Social Sciences,
UU and Prof. dr. Robert-Jan Simons, IVLOS, UU.
- Research
project Design Rules for Learning through Simulated Worlds, GATE-program
(2006-2012).
- Research
project Playful Identities,
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO (2005-2010).
- Level
Up. Digital Games Research Conference 2003. Subsidies received from the
University Board, UU; the Research Institute for History and Culture
(OGC), UU; the Institute for Media and Re/presentation, UU; the
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); the Mondriaan
Foundation; Electronic Arts; Nokia; Nintendo.
Co-supervison
- Imar de Vries, Tantalisingly Close: An Archaeology of Communication Desires
in Discourses of Mobile Wireless Media, UU, OGC
(September 26, 2008). Supervisor: Prof. dr. Frank Kessler.
- Mirko
Schäfer, Bastard Culture! User participation and the extension of
the cultural industries, UU, OGC (December 1, 2008).
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Frank Kessler.
- Douglas
Rushkoff, Renaissance, Dimensionality, and Interactivity, New York
University-UU, OGC (from 2003). Supervisor: Prof. dr. Frank Kessler.
Membership of promotion committee
- Sigrid Merx, Beelden van tijd. Op zoek naar de tijdsdramaturgie in de
Proustcyclus van Guy Cassiers, UU, OGC (June 12, 2009). Supervisor:
Prof. dr. William Uricchio.
- Edyte
Just, New reproductive assemblages: understanding, managing and
'using' human In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), UU, OGC (January
12, 2009). Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rosi Braidotti and Prof. dr. Rosemarie
Buikema.
- Maaike Lauwaert, The
Place of Play. On Toys, Technological Innovations and Geographies of Play,
- Hanne-Lovise Skartveit, Representing the Real through Play and Interaction, University
of Bergen, Department of Information Science and Media
Studies (February 29, 2008). Supervisor: Prof. dr. Katherine Goodnow.
- Steven Malliet, The
Challenge of Videogames to Media Effect Theory, K.U. Leuven, Faculty
of Social Sciences (September 7, 2007). Supervisor: Prof. dr. Gust De
Meyer.
- Marinka Copier, Beyond the Magic Circle. A Network Perspective on
Role-Play in Online Games, UU, OGC (June 12, 2007). Supervisors:
Prof. dr. Berteke Waaldijk and Prof. dr. Rosi Braidotti.
Membership of supervision committee
- Teun Dubbelman, GATE-Game
Design as Narrative Architecture, UU, OGC (from 2008). Supervisors:
Prof. dr. William Uricchio and Prof. dr. Robert-Jan Simons.
- Jeroen Timmermans, Playful identities-Web Identity: Between Globalization and
Localization, EUR (from 2005). Supervisors: Prof. dr. Jos de Mul and
Prof. dr. Valerie Frissen.
- Michiel de Lange, Playful Identities-Mobile Identity: Between M-Commerce and
Communicative Action, EUR (from 2005). Supervisors: Prof. dr. Jos de
Mul and Prof. dr. Valerie Frissen.
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