Author of Cheating: Gaining Advantage of Videogames (2007), she is currently writing a book about Japan’s influence on the videogame industry and game culture. Her work has been published in Critical Studies in Media Communication, Games & Culture, Game Studies, Convergence, and many other journals. Consalvo is president of the Association of Internet Researchers. She has held positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ohio University, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Chubu University in Japan. She has presented her work at various academic and professional conferences, including several times at the Game Developers Conference.