FACULTY

Janet Murray
Director of Graduate Studies
Professor
Research interests: Interactive narrative and eTV, interactive gaming, encyclopedic media
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Philip Auslander
Professor
Research interests: Performance studies, media studies, cultural studies, popular music
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Ian Bogost
Associate Professor
Research interests: Videogame criticism, videogame rhetoric, and visualization, including game design and educational, persuasive, and political speech in games
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Jay Bolter
Professor
Wesley Chair of New Media Studies
Research interests: Augmented Reality design, media theory
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Carl DiSalvo
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Critical design, participatory design, the construction of publics, imaging the city, community robotics.
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Fox Harrell
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.
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TyAnna Herrington
Associate Professor
Research interests: Intellectual property, technical communication, global distance learning
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Kenneth Knoespel
Professor
Interim Dean of the Ivan Allen College
Research interests: Newtonian science, scientific narrative
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Brian Magerko
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.
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Alexandra (Ali) Mazalek
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Tangible & computational narratives, media spaces & interfaces, physical sensing & interaction technologies
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Michael Nitsche
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Interaction in mixed media spaces, machinima, games and film, and digital performance
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Celia Pearce
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Sociology of massively multiplayer games and virtual worlds, spatial media, game design
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Eugene Thacker
Associate Professor
Research interests: Philosophy, science & technology, science fiction & horror
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