Krzysztof M. Maj

About

Researcher in digital humanities (world-building, video games, transmedia storytelling), tutor, translator (English & Polish), and dweller of fantastic worlds.

Experience

• Assistant Professor at AGH University of Science and Technology
  Feb 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 6 mos

  • Lectures: Introduction to Video Game Studies; World-building in video games, Fantasy & SF in Contemporary Culture; Literary Theory; Culture & Innovation • Workshops: Video Game Design Workshop 1: Narrative Design, Video Game Design Workshop 2: World-building; Designing Transmedial Worlds • Research: world-building, transmedial, and video game studies • Tutoring in world-building studies • Publications: "Światotwórstwo w fantastyce. Od przedstawienia do zamieszkiwania [World-building in the Fantastic. From Representation to Inhabitation]" (2019), "Dyskursy gier wideo [Video Game Discourses]" (2019, co-editor Michał Kłosiński)

• Guest Lecturer at Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach
  Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Lectures: World-building in Fantasy & SF

• Guest Lecturer at Uniwersytet Warszawski
  Feb 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 6 mos

  • Classes: Światotwórstwo w fantastyce. Od teorii do praktyki (World-building in the Fantastic. From Theory to Practice); Eutopie i dystopie w kulturze (Eutopias and Dystopias in Culture) at Artes Liberales

• Expert at Freenovation
  Apr 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 4 mos

  • Being a part of an exceptional team with a chance to contribute in the area of *applied* world-building studies. That's more of a merit than any job description

• Tutor at Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach
  Feb 2021 - Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Co-supervisor of Tomasz Bonikowski's PhD project in the role of music in fantastic world-building