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Dr. Alainya Kavaloski is an Associate Professor of English and Humanities at SUNY Canton, teaching courses in digital graphic storytelling, electronic literature, and critical game design. Her research examines rhetorical infrastructures in emerging media (graphic narratives, AR games, hybrid storyscapes) to analyze geopolitical border representations in U.S. and Israel-Palestine contexts.
- Education: PhD (English, UW-Madison), MA (Literary Studies, Hebrew University), BA (English, Edgewood College)
- Research Focus: Digital media poetics, critical security studies, transnational Jewish literature, and game studies
- Leadership: Department Chair (2021-present), MLA Delegate Assembly Member
Her work bridges decolonial mapping and digital pedagogy, including collaborations with Games Learning Society and co-editorship of SUNY Canton’s Grasse Roots journal. Awards include SUNY IITG Grant (2017) for digital writing lab development and UW-Madison’s Innovation in Teaching Award (2015).
Key publications analyze:
- Security logics in ISIS-focused war games (2018)
- Graphic narratives’ affective border representations (2015)
- Postcolonial digital homeland construction (2015)
She has developed studio-based pedagogical models like ARIT (Augmented Reality Interactive Theory) and co-founded SUNY Canton’s New Media Writing major.
