Jesper Juul

Who is Jesper Juul?

Jesper Juul is an influential game designer, educator, and theorist in the field of video game studies. He is an associate professor at the Danish Design School.

Juul is co-editor, with William Uricchio and Geoffrey Long, of the MIT Press Playful Thinking series.

He has previously worked at the New York University Game Center, Comparative Media Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Center for Computer Games Research at the IT University of Copenhagen.

Born in Denmark, in 1970, he graduated from the University of Copenhagen where he earned a M.A. degree in Nordic literature. He earned a PhD. in video game theory from the IT University of Copenhagen.