FACULTY

Full Faculty List

Alexander Ames, Ph.D., Saint Louis

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Old and Middle English language, literature, paleography, and codicology; medieval and early modern drama; medievalism

Skiles 323
404-894-8482

Fernando Arenas, Ph.D., Kansas

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Audience studies, disability studies, art cinema narration, Latin-American cinema.

Skiles 320
404-894-0505

Philip Auslander, Ph.D., Cornell

Professor
Research interests: Performance Studies, media studies, cultural studies, popular music

Skiles 365
(404) 894-1160

Scott Banville, Ph.D., Ohio State

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Victorian literature and culture, digital media studies, cultural studies

Skiles 316
(404) 894-4815

Olin Bjork, Ph.D., Texas

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Milton Studies, digital humanities, bibliography and textual studies

Skiles 323
(404) 894-8482

Ian Bogost, Ph.D., UCLA

Assistant Professor
Research interests: Videogame criticism, videogame rhetoric, and visualization, including game design and educational, persuasive, and political speech in games

Skiles 363
(404) 894-1160

Jay Bolter, Ph.D., UNC Chapel Hill

Professor
Wesley Chair of New Media Studies
Research interests: Augmented Reality design, media theory

Skiles 017
(404) 385-2206

Ron Broglio, Ph.D., Florida

Assistant Professor
Research interests: British Romanticism, the picturesque, ecology, computing and the humanities

Skiles 359
(404) 894-1159

Rebecca Burnett, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon

Professor
Director, Writing & Communication Program

Skiles 348
(404) 894-1158

Carol Colatrella, Ph.D., Rutgers

Professor
Research interests: cultural studies, narrative theory,feminist theory

Skiles 364
(404) 894-1241

Andrew Cooper, Ph.D., Princeton

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Writing Program Coordinator
Research interests: Gothic fiction, history of the novel, 18th-19th century British literature

Skiles 301
(404) 894-8923

Emma Crandall, Ph.D., Michigan

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: American modernism & the avant-garde, gender & sexuality studies, Gertrude Stein

Skiles 307
(404) 894-7626

T. Hugh Crawford, Ph.D., Duke

Associate Professor
Research interests: American literature, imaging, literature & medicine

Skiles 345
(404) 894-8009

Angela Dalle-Vacche, Ph.D., Iowa

Associate Professor
Research interests: Early cinema, film and the visual arts.

Skiles Building 344
404-894-0063

Francis Desiderio, Ph.D., Emory

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: American studies, urban studies, and the production of space

Skiles 329
404-385-0626

Carl DiSalvo, Ph.D

Assistant Professor
Research interests: Critical design, participatory design, the construction of publics, imaging the city, community robotics.

Skiles

Shannon Dobranski, Ph.D., Texas

Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research interests: Renaissance studies, shakespeare, theater

Skiles 331
(404) 385-0625

Terry Easton, Ph.D., Emory

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Labor, immigration, culture and identity

Skiles 309
404-894-1021

Jason Embry, Ph.D. (cand.), Georgia State

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Postmodern American literature, Beat literature, science fiction studies, web culture, and pop-cultural studies

Skiles 328
404-894-6816

Lori Emerson, Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: American and Canadian literature, new media theory and writing

Skiles 328
(404) 894-6816

Kathryn Farley, Ph.D., Northwestern

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Digital performance studies, technological arts education, literary adaptation, multimedia improvisation, computers and creative learning

Skiles 313
(404) 894-1025

Daryl Farmer, Ph.D., Nebraska

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Fiction and literary nonfiction writing, 20th century literature, environmental studies, travel literature, and literature of contemporary West

Skiles 321
(404) 894-1289

Nihad Farooq, Ph.D., Duke

Assistant Professor
Research interests: American studies, cultural studies, transatlantic anthropologies of race, migration, and ethnicity, evolutionary theory, gender studies, British fin-de-siecle literature, naturalism, phenomenology.

Skiles 366
404-894-7004

Clara Fernandez-Vara

Ph.D Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant

Skiles Building 005

Ute Fischer, Ph.D., Princeton

Research Scientist
Research interests: Effect of status, culture and gender on the interaction and decision strategies of small teams, effect of communication medium on distributed team decision making

Skiles 341
(404) 385-1496

Michael Fournier, Ph.D. (cand.), Georgia State

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Renaissance literature, instructional technology, 20thcentury American & Canadian poetry

Skiles 326
(404) 894-7491

Jürgen Grandt, Ph.D., Georgia

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: African American literature and culture, musicology, modernism

Skiles 304
(404) 894-1023

Fox Harrell, Ph.D. UCSD

Assistant Professor
Research interests: Computational narrative, cognitive semantics, imaginative fiction for social critique and analysis, experimental and cross-cultural narrative, and social aspects of user-interface design.

Skiles

Narin Hassan, Ph.D., Rochester

Assistant Professor
Research interests: Victorian literature & culture, colonial/postcolonial studies, feminist theory, literature & medicine

Skiles 362
(404) 385-3060

Karen Head, Ph.D., Nebraska

Graduate Communication Coordinator, CETL
Special Advisor to the Writing & Communication Program, LCC
Research interests: Creative writing, digital poetry, modern & contemporary poetry, technical communications, Southern literature

Skiles 350
(404) 385-2225 or 385-7357

TyAnna Herrington, J.D., Texas Tech
Ph.D., Texas Tech

Associate Professor
Research interests: Intellectual property, technical communication, global distance learning

Skiles 023
(404) 894-6207

David Jimison

Ph.D Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant

Jared Johnson, Ph.D. Candidate, Stony Brook

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: English Renaissance literature; new economic criticism and empire studies; film, media, and cultural studies

Skiles 304
(404) 894-1023

Kenneth Knoespel, Ph.D., Chicago

Professor
Chair, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
Research interests: Newtonian science, scientific narrative

Skiles 337
(404) 385-2056

Hartmut Koenitz

Ph.D Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant

Danielle Lawson, Ph.D. (cand.), Queensland University of Technology

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: New media (primarily internet chat, internet advertising, and online video games); group membership and 'misbehaving' in online forums; the C-generation; and internet research ethics

Skiles 309
(404) 894-1021

Blake Leland, Ph.D., Cornell

Associate Professor
Research interests: Science & modernism, psychoanalysis, creative writing (poetry)

Skiles 332
(404) 894-2737

Thomas Lux, B.A., Emerson College

Professor
Bourne Chair in Poetry
Research interests: Creative writing, contemporary poetry

Skiles 338
(404) 385-2418

Brian Magerko, Ph.D

Assistant Professor
Research interests: Interactive narrative, serious game design and development, cognitive architectures, intelligent agents, human-computer interaction, and board game studies as applied to digital game design.

Skiles Bldg.
(404) 894-2739

Alexandra Mazalek, Ph.D., MIT

Assistant Professor
Research interests: Tangible & computational narratives, media spaces & interfaces, physical sensing & interaction technologies

Skiles 339
(404) 385-2527

Karissa McCoy, Ph.D., Vanderbilt

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: American literature and American cultural studies, critical race theory, 
literature and class relations, gender theory

Skiles 310
(404) 894-7490

Peter McGuire, Ph.D., Brown

Professor
Associate Dean, Ivan Allen College
Research interests: Digital media project testing and management, web-based distance learning

Habersham 104
(404) 894-2006

Matthew McIntyre, Ph.D. (cand.), Georgia State

Assistant to the Director of Graduate Studies

Skiles 340
404-385-7551

Derek Merrill, Ph.D., Florida

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: 20th century U.S. literature, cultural and visual studies, political theory and literature.

Skiles 316
(404) 894-4815

Janet Murray, Ph.D., Harvard

Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Research interests: Interactive narrative and eTV, interactive gaming, encyclopedic media

Skiles 340
(404) 894-6202

Michael Nitsche, Ph.D., Cambridge

Assistant Professor
Research interests: Interactive real-time 3-dimensional virtual environments focusing on ways to shape their content and improve their spatial design, their presentation, and investigate their range of interaction

Skiles 350
(404) 385-2225

Matthew Paproth, Ph.D., Southern Illinois-Carbondale

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Contemporary British and Irish fiction, modernism and postmodernism, cultural studies and popular culture

Skiles 303
(404) 894-2738

Celia Pearce, Ph.D., SMARTlab Centre, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London

Assistant Professor
Research interests: Sociology of massively multiplayer games and virtual worlds, spatial media, game design

Skiles 361
404-385-0836

Chad Pearson, Ph.D., Texas at Dallas

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Existential literature and philosophy, history of the novel, world literature

Skiles 310
(404) 894-7490

Manuel Perez-Tejada, Ph.D. Candidate, Kansas

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Mexican cinema, documentary films, critical political economy, cultural studies

Skiles 320
(404) 894-0505

Rubén Ramírez-Sánchez, Ph.D., New Mexico

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Cultural studies, uses of media technologies, social resistance, punk culture

Skiles 313
(404) 894-1025

JC Reilly, Ph.D., Nebraska

STAC Program Advisor
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Women's Spirituality Studies, Women's Studies, Poetry & Poetics

Skiles 321
404-894-1289

Todd Reynolds, Ph.D., Florida

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Nineteenth century US literature and culture, technology and the social division of labor

Skiles 315
404-894-1021

Benjamin Robertson, Ph.D., Buffalo

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: American literature, science and literature, politics

Skiles 301
404-894-8923

Ozge Samanci

Ph.D Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant

Lisa Schneider, Ph.D., Emory

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: 20th Century American literature, poetry and poetics, psychoanalysis, literary theory

Skiles 307
404-894-7626

Carol Senf, Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo

Professor
Associate Chair
Research interests: Victorian Studies and the Gothic.

Skiles 355
(404) 894-7003

Kent Still, Ph.D. (cand), Emory

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Phenomenology, ethics and politics in contemporary continental philosophy, modernity

Skiles 329
(404) 385.0626

Jay Telotte, Ph.D., Florida

Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research interests: Film & technology, science fiction film

Skiles 333
(404) 894-6209

Eugene Thacker, Ph.D., Rutgers

Assistant Professor
Research interests: Media studies, science studies, biotechnology and culture

Skiles 022
(404) 385-2766

Daniel Vollaro, Ph.D., Georgia State

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Canon formation, literary history, genocide studies, H. D. Thoreau

Skiles 316
(404) 894-7491

Allison Whitney, Ph.D., Chicago

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Cinema and media studies, communications, gender studies

Skiles 316
(404) 894-1024

Andrea Wood, Ph.D., Florida

Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Gender & sexuality studies, feminist and queer theory, film and new media studies, popular genres, comics and animation, fandom, and Japanese pop culture

Skiles 303
(404) 894-2738

Robert Wood, Ph.D., Virginia

Associate Professor
Research interests: Renaissance science, shakespeare

Skiles 325
(404) 894-7631

Lisa Yaszek, Ph.D., Wisconsin

Associate Professor
STAC Director
Research interests: Science fiction, gender studies, contemporary literature

Skiles 306
(404) 894-1022

Jichen Zhu

Ph.D Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant