FACULTY

Philip Auslander Professor Research interests: Performance studies, media studies, cultural studies, popular music website

Ian Bogost Director of Graduate Studies Research interests: Videogame criticism, videogame rhetoric, and visualization, including game design and educational, persuasive, and political speech in games website

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

Rebecca Burnett Director of Writing and Communication Program Professor Research interests: Risk communication, collaboration, cross-cultural communication, multimodality, technical communication, visual rhetoric

Carol Colatrella Professor Research interests: cultural studies, narrative theory,feminist theory website

T. Hugh Crawford Associate Professor Research interests: American literature, imaging, literature & medicine

Angela Dalle-Vacche Professor Research interests: Early cinema, film and the visual arts. website

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

Shannon Dobranski Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies Humanities, Transfer Credit, and Overloads Instructor Research interests: Renaissance studies, shakespeare, theater

Nihad Farooq 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.

Ute Fischer 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

Melissa Foulger Artistic Director of DramaTech

Kathleen Ann Goonan Visiting Professor Research interests: science fiction, the impact of nanotechnology, medicine, and education on the future website

Narin Hassan Associate Professor Research interests: Victorian literature & culture, colonial/postcolonial studies, feminist theory, literature & medicine website

Karen Head Director of the Communication Center Assistant Professor Research interests: Creative writing, digital poetry, modern & contemporary poetry, technical communications, Southern literature website

TyAnna Herrington Professor Research interests: Intellectual property, technical communication, global distance learning website

Kenneth Knoespel Professor Research interests: Newtonian science, scientific narrative website

Lauren Klein Assistant Professor Research interests: Early American literature and culture, American studies, food studies, digital humanities, data visualization, archive theory and design website

Christopher Le Dantec Assistant Professor Research interests: Participatory design, values in design, human-centerd computing, community computing & informatics, urban computing. website

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

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

Krystina Madej Visiting Assistant Professor Research Interests: Digital narrative; history of children's narrative; narratives in popular culture: animation, comics, and graphic novels; narrative as maker of meaning; rhetoric of the web; graphic design and museum design

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. website

Alexandra (Ali) Mazalek Associate Professor Research interests: tangible and embodied interaction, emerging technologies, experimental media, creativity and design, interaction design, media arts and entertainment website

Janet Murray Professor Research interests: Interactive narrative and eTV, interactive gaming, encyclopedic media website

Vinicius Navarro Assistant Professor Research interests: Concept of performance in nonfiction cinema, intersections between film making and the cultural history of the postwar era in the United States, international cinema, global television formats, experimental cinema

Michael Nitsche Associate Professor Research interests: Interaction in mixed media spaces, machinima, games and film, and digital performance website

Jennifer Parrott Instructor Research interests: Twentieth-century British and Irish fiction and drama, Contemporary Irish women playwrights, travel writing

Celia Pearce Associate Professor Research interests: Sociology of massively multiplayer games and virtual worlds, spatial media, game design website

Anne Pollock Assistant Professor Research interests: Biomedicine and culture, science and technology studies, race and gender website

Paulette Richards Instructor Research interests: Digital video as technical discourse

Jaqueline Royster Dean of the Ivan Allen College Professor Research interests: Rhetorical studies, literacy studies, and women's studies website

Aaron Santesso Associate Professor Research interests: Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century literature, surveillance, media

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

John Sharp Assistant Professor Research interests: The history of art; the history of games and videogames; videogame aesthetics; processes and technologies of creativity; curriculum design for games; game design with an emphasis on independent game development.

Jay Telotte Interim Chair, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture Minors and Certificates Professor Research interests: Film & technology, science fiction film, animation website

John Thornton Academic Professional Research interests: Digital Film Production and the DSLR Revolution

Qi Wang Assistant Professor Research interests: Representation of history and memory; documentary; Contemporary Independent and Socialist Chinese Cinema; and experimental and dance film

Robin Wharton Assistant Director Writing and Communication Program Research interests: Medieval law and literature; critical legal studies; and the digital humanities

Robert Wood Associate Professor Research interests: Renaissance science, Shakespeare

Lisa Yaszek Director of Undergraduate Studies Professor Research interests: Science fiction, gender studies, contemporary literature website