Joe Bisz

Joe Bisz is a part-time educational games designer and an Associate Professor of English at CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College. Not so long ago, he received a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and English Literature from Binghamton University. Since then he has sailed his theoretical ship into a few ports of the world, including gender & sexuality studies, Popular Culture & Sci-fi, and game-based learning. His critical work has been published in Transformative Works and Cultures and Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, and his creative writing in a dozen journals and anthologies including Diagram.

“In traditional teaching, we would call this scaffolding. In GBL, we would call this a game.” - Joe Bisz