PronounsShe/Her

Department/College/UnitArts Division

TitleAssociate Professor

AffiliationFaculty

Other UCSC Campus AffiliationArt & Design: Games + Playable Media (AGPM)

Primary Office LocationDigital Arts Research Center
337

Additional Location(s)Little Stories Lab: DARC 325

Office HoursEmail eswensen@ucsc.edu for this quarter's schedule.

Mail StopDigital Arts Research Center

Biography, Education and Training

Elizabeth Swensen is a game designer, paper-tearer, and Associate Professor of Art & Design: Games & Playable Media at UCSC. She received her M.F.A in Interactive Media from the University of Southern California and her B.A. in Classics from Willamette University. Her research is in designing narrative for interactive experiences, system design for playful learning, and experimental Tabletop RPG design as a part of the UCSC Center for Monster Studies. 

Research Interests

• Interactive narrative and performance
• Monstrous identities in play
• Metacognitive development outcomes and strategy-based learning in games
• Game design exploring the role language plays in enforcing identity.

Teaching Interests

• Writing for interactive experiences
• Production and collaboration methods
• Games as personal narrative
• Experience design
• TTRPG design