Gregory P. Garvey

Gregory P. Garvey, MFA, MSVS, BS holds the appointment of full Professor of Game Design & Development at Quinnipiac University. He is the founder and first Director (2011-2019) of the Game Design & Development Program in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts. He is currently a Fellow of the Peoples United Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Also at Quinnipiac he has held previous appointments as Fellow of the Collaborative for Interdisciplinary and Integrated Studies (CIIS), Fellow of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts and as Visiting Fellow in the Arts. Prior to his academic appointments he worked in the games industry starting in companies such as Parker Brothers (Beverly, MA) and Spinnaker Software (Cambridge, MA). Other appointments include as Associate Artist of the Digital Media Center for the Arts at Yale University (now the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media). Prior to joining Quinnipiac University, he was Chair of the Department of Design Art at Concordia University in Montreal and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Montreal Design Institute. From 1983-85 he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT.