Joshua D. Miner

Joshua Miner
  • Associate Professor
  • Director of Graduate Studies
  • Film & Media Studies

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Lawrence

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Biography —

Joshua Miner specializes in sound design, music and screenwriting for animation. As a filmmaker and composer, he uses textural sound recording, editing and processing as methods for exploring the entanglement of technology and our environment—from the field to the dubbing stage. His scholarship in sound studies, Indigenous screen aesthetics, and digital media has appeared in Animation, Games and Culture, Screen Bodies, and many other academic journals and collections. At the University of Kansas, he teaches courses in sound design, scoring for film and media, film aesthetics, and video game development.

Selected Publications —

Miner, J. (2022). Critical Protocols in Indigenous Gamespace. Games and Culture - Issue 1 | Volume 17. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120211005366.
Miner, J. (2021). Experiments in Hybrid Documentary and Indigenous Model Animation. Animation - Issue 1-2 | Volume 16. https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477211025664.
Miner, J. (2020). Surveying the Frontier: Subjective Rendering and Occlusion in Open World Westerns. gamevironments - Volume 12. https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/180.