FACULTY

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

Ian Bogost Associate Professor 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

Andrew Cooper Writing and Communication Program Coordinator Instructor Research interests: Gothic fiction, horror films, history of the novel, technical communication 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

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. website

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

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

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

Nassim Jafarinaimi Visiting Assitant Professor Research interests: Design Theory and Criticism, Social Media, Interaction Design and Visual Design

Kenneth Knoespel Professor Interim Dean of the Ivan Allen College Research interests: Newtonian science, scientific narrative 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

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

Matthew McIntyre Assistant to the Director of Graduate Studies Instructor

Janet Murray Director of Graduate Studies 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 Assistant Professor Research interests: Interaction in mixed media spaces, machinima, games and film, and digital performance website

Celia Pearce Assistant 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

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

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

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

Eugene Thacker Associate Professor Research interests: Philosophy, science & technology, science fiction & horror website

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

Robert Wood Associate Professor Research interests: Renaissance science, Shakespeare

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