Joshua D. Miner, PhD


Joshua Miner
  • Associate Professor
  • Director of Graduate Studies

Contact Info

Summerfield Hall Room 118C
Lawrence

Biography

Joshua Miner specializes in the aesthetics of animation, with an emphasis in narrative, music and sound design. Across this work, he uses speculative storytelling as a mode for exploring the entanglement of technology and our environment.

His critical work has spanned digital media studies, ecological aesthetics in film and games, and the settler structures of digital media technologies, appearing in Animation,Games and Culture,Screen Bodies, International Journal of Cultural Studies, and other journals and collections.

Education

Ph.D. in English, University of Iowa
M.A. in Linguistics, University of North Texas

Research

Research interests:

  • Film scoring
  • Sound Design
  • Animation
  • Digital/screen aesthetics
  • Interactive media and design

Teaching

Teaching interests:

  • Scoring for film and games
  • Game design and development
  • Digital/screen aesthetics
  • Indigenous film + media
  • Documentary film + media