FACULTY

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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Ron Broglio
Assistant Professor
Research interests: British Romanticism, the picturesque, ecology, computing and the humanities
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Rebecca Burnett
Professor
Director of Writing and Communication Program
Research interests: Risk communication, collaboration, cross-cultural communication, multimodality, technical communication, visual rhetoric

 
Carol Colatrella
Professor
Research interests: cultural studies, narrative theory,feminist theory
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Andrew Cooper
Writing and Communication Program Coordinator
Adjunct Faculty
Research interests: Gothic fiction, horror films, history of the novel, technical communication
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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.
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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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Shannon Dobranski
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
Humanities, Transfer Credit, and Overloads
Adjunct Faculty
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.

 
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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Narin Hassan
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Victorian literature & culture, colonial/postcolonial studies, feminist theory, literature & medicine
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Karen Head
Graduate Communication Coordinator, CETL
Adjunct Faculty
Special Advisor to the Writing & Communication Program, LCC
Research interests: Creative writing, digital poetry, modern & contemporary poetry, technical communications, Southern literature
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TyAnna Herrington
Associate Professor
Research interests: Intellectual property, technical communication, global distance learning
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Kenneth Knoespel
Professor
Chair, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
Research interests: Newtonian science, scientific narrative
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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

 
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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Matthew McIntyre
Assistant to the Director of Graduate Studies
Adjunct Faculty

 
Janet Murray
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Research interests: Interactive narrative and eTV, interactive gaming, encyclopedic media
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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
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
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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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Anne Pollock
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Biomedicine and culture, science and technology studies, race and gender
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Aaron Santesso
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century literature, surveillance, media

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

 
Jay Telotte
Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Minors and Certificate Programs
Research interests: Film & technology, science fiction film, animation
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Eugene Thacker
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Media studies, science studies, biotechnology and culture
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Qi Wang
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Representation of history and memory in film, documentary, East Asian cinemas, French cinema, animation, and dance film.

 
Robert Wood
Associate Professor
Research interests: Renaissance science, Shakespeare

 
Lisa Yaszek
Associate Professor
Research interests: Science fiction, gender studies, contemporary literature
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