FACULTY

Philip Auslander Professor Performance studies, media studies, cultural studies, popular music website

Ian Bogost Professor & Director of Center for Media Studies 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 Augmented Reality design, media theory website

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

Carol Colatrella Professor & Associate Dean cultural studies, narrative theory,feminist theory website

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

Angela Dalle-Vacche Professor Early cinema, art, cinema, science, European film, African film website

Carl DiSalvo Assistant Professor 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 Renaissance studies, shakespeare, theater

Nihad Farooq Assistant Professor 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 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

Andy Frazee Assistant Director of Writing and Communication Program Creative writing, poetry, business communication website

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

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

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

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

Nassim Jafarinaimi Visiting Assistant Professor ethics and politics of design, participatory media, design studies, values and design, civic and urban computing, and human-computer interaction. website

Kenneth Knoespel Professor Newtonian science, scientific narrative website

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

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

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

Thomas Lux Professor & Bourne Chair in Poetry Creative writing, contemporary poetry

Krystina Madej Visiting Assistant Professor 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 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 & Director of Graduate Studies tangible and embodied interaction, emerging technologies, experimental media, creativity and design, interaction design, media arts and entertainment website

Janet Murray Professor & Associate Dean Interactive narrative and eTV, interactive gaming, encyclopedic media website

Vinicius Navarro Assistant Professor Documentary, digital culture, media activism, international cinema, and experimental media

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

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

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

Paulette Richards Lecturer Digital video as technical discourse

Jaqueline Royster Professor & Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Rhetorical studies, literacy studies, and women's studies website

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

Carol Senf Associate Chair Professor Victorian Studies and the Gothic.

Jay Telotte Minors and Certificates Professor Film & technology, science fiction film, animation website

John Thornton Academic Professional Digital Film Production and the DSLR Revolution

Richard Utz Professor & Chair, School of Literature, Media, and Communication Research Interests: Cultural Construction of Knowledge, Humanistic Inquiry and Science/Technology, Medievalism Studies, Nationalism, Reception Studies

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

Robin Wharton Visiting Professor Medieval law and literature; critical legal studies; and the digital humanities

Robert Wood Associate Professor Renaissance science, Shakespeare

Lisa Yaszek Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies Science fiction, gender studies, contemporary literature website

Gregory Zinman Visiting Assistant Professor Film Studies, Media Studies, Art History, Experimental Film and Media, and Digital Culture website |