FACULTY

Full Faculty List

Matthew Adkins, Ph.D. University of Georgia
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: 20th century American fiction; the evocation of place in fictional landscapes; post-modernism and pop culture

Skiles 301
(706) 255-7315

Alexander Ames, Ph.D., Saint Louis
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Old and Middle English language, literature, paleography, and codicology; medievalism

Skiles 323
(404) 894-8482

Fernando Arenas, Ph.D., Kansas
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Audience studies, disability studies, art cinema narration, Latin-American cinema.

Skiles 320
(404) 894-0505

Philip Auslander, Ph.D., Cornell
Professor
Research interests: Performance Studies, media studies, cultural studies, popular music

Skiles 365
(404) 894-1160

Scott Balcerzak, Ph.D., University of Florida
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Film theory, film history, gender, technology, performance

Skiles 328
(404) 894-6816

Olin Bjork, Ph.D., Texas
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Milton Studies, digital humanities, bibliography and textual studies

Skiles 326
(404) 894-7491

Ian Bogost, Ph.D., UCLA
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Videogame criticism, videogame rhetoric, and visualization, including game design and educational, persuasive, and political speech in games

Skiles 363
(404) 894-1160

Jay Bolter, Ph.D., UNC Chapel Hill
Professor
Wesley Chair of New Media Studies
Research interests: Augmented Reality design, media theory

Skiles 017
(404) 385-2206

Ron Broglio, Ph.D., Florida
Assistant Professor
Research interests: British Romanticism, the picturesque, ecology, computing and the humanities

Skiles 359
(404) 894-1159

Rebecca Burnett, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon
Professor
Director, Writing & Communication Program

Skiles 348
(404) 894-1158

Carol Colatrella, Ph.D., Rutgers
Professor
Research interests: cultural studies, narrative theory,feminist theory

Skiles 364
(404) 894-1241

Andrew Cooper, Ph.D., Princeton
Communication Program Coordinator
Research interests: Gothic fiction, horror films, history of the novel, technical communication

Skiles 341
(404) 894-8923

Emma Crandall, Ph.D., Michigan
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: American modernism & the avant-garde, gender & sexuality studies, Gertrude Stein

Skiles 307
(404) 894-7626

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

Skiles 345
(404) 894-8009

Kathryn Crowther, Ph.D., Emory University
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Victorian literature and nineteenth-century print culture; Neo-victorian writing; women's studies

Skiles 316
(404) 894-4815

Angela Dalle-Vacche, Ph.D., Iowa
Associate Professor
Research interests: Early cinema, film and the visual arts.

Skiles 344
404-894-0063

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

Skiles

Shannon Dobranski, Ph.D., Texas
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research interests: Renaissance studies, shakespeare, theater

Skiles 331
(404) 385-0625

Jason Embry, Ph.D. (cand.), Georgia State
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Postmodern American literature, Beat literature, science fiction studies, web culture, and pop-cultural studies

Skiles 323
(404) 894-8482

Kathryn Farley, Ph.D., Northwestern
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Digital media and performance, literary adaptation, multimedia-based improv comedy, computers and creativity

Skiles 313
(404) 894-1025

Nihad Farooq, Ph.D., Duke
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.

Skiles 366
404-894-7004

Clara Fernandez-Vara
Ph.D Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant

Skiles 005

Ute Fischer, Ph.D., Princeton
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

Skiles 341
(404) 385-1496

Elizabeth Freudenthal, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Contemporary U.S. fiction, biomedicine and culture, postmodernism, histories of science, medicine and technology, material culture

Skiles 310
(404) 894-7490

Jurgen Grandt, Ph.D., University of Georgia
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: African American literature and culture, musicology, Walter Benjamin, southern literature

Skiles 304
(404) 894-1023

Lisa Hager, Ph.D., The University of Florida
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Victorian literature and culture, New Women fiction, SteamPunk, comics, digital pedagogy, children's literature

Skiles 316
(404) 894-4815

Fox Harrell, Ph.D. UCSD
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.

Skiles

Jo Anne Harris, Ph.D., University of Puerto Rico
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Eighteenth-century Studies, Caribbean Literatures, Early Manuscripts, digital scholarship,computer-mediated communication

Skiles 321
(404) 894-1289

Narin Hassan, Ph.D., Rochester
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Victorian literature & culture, colonial/postcolonial studies, feminist theory, literature & medicine

Skiles 362
(404) 385-3060

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

Skiles 350
(404) 385-2225 or 385-7357

TyAnna Herrington, J.D., Texas Tech
Ph.D., Texas Tech
Associate Professor
Research interests: Intellectual property, technical communication, global distance learning

Skiles 023
(404) 894-6207

Anthony Hoefer, Ph.D., Louisiana State University
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: 20th C. U.S. Literature; Southern Studies; place, space, and ethnicity; nation and region; ecocriticism; apocalyptic literature and rhetoric

Skiles 329
(404) 385-0626

David Jimison
Ph.D Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant


Jared Johnson, Ph.D. Candidate, Stony Brook
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: English Renaissance literature; new economic criticism and empire studies; film, media, and cultural studies

Skiles 304
(404) 894-1023

Kenneth Knoespel, Ph.D., Chicago
Professor
Chair, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
Research interests: Newtonian science, scientific narrative

Skiles 337
(404) 385-2056

Hartmut Koenitz
Ph.D Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant


Crystal Lake, Ph.D., University of Missouri
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature, material culture, and historiography; cultural studies; women writers

Skiles 321
(404) 894-1289

Stacy Lavin, Ph.D. Candidate, Duke University
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: 19th and 20th-century Anglo/Irish/American literature, literary modernism, 20th-century information culture, cultural studies of science, technology, and new media.

Skiles 310
(404) 894-7490

Danielle Lawson, Ph.D., Queensland University of Technology
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: internet chat, internet culture and language, language and social interaction in chat rooms, linguistic anthropology, technical communication and the internet

Skiles 309
(404) 894-1021

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

Skiles 332
(404) 894-2737

Thomas Lux, B.A., Emerson College
Professor
Bourne Chair in Poetry
Research interests: Creative writing, contemporary poetry

Skiles 338
(404) 385-2418

Brian Magerko, Ph.D
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.

Skiles
(404) 894-2739

Alexandra (Ali) Mazalek, Ph.D., MIT
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Tangible & computational narratives, media spaces & interfaces, physical sensing & interaction technologies

Skiles 339
(404) 385-2527

Karissa McCoy, Ph.D., Vanderbilt
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: 20th and 21st-century American fiction, critical race studies, literature of the American South, gender studies

Skiles 313
(404) 894-1025

Peter McGuire, Ph.D., Brown
Professor
Associate Dean, Ivan Allen College
Research interests: Digital media project testing and management, web-based distance learning

Habersham 104
(404) 894-2006

Matthew McIntyre, Ph.D. (cand.), Georgia State
Assistant to the Director of Graduate Studies

Skiles 340
404-385-7551

Ruth McIntyre, Ph.D., Georgia State University
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Late medieval literature, rhetoric, Manuscript studies, women's writing, technical communication

Skiles 309
(404) 894-1021

Melissa Meeks, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Multimodal composition, assessment, and writing program administration

Skiles 320
(404) 894-0505

Janet Murray, Ph.D., Harvard
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Research interests: Interactive narrative and eTV, interactive gaming, encyclopedic media

Skiles 340
(404) 894-6202

Michael Nitsche, Ph.D., Cambridge
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

Skiles 350
(404) 385-2225

Matthew Paproth, Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: 20th and 21st-century British fiction, popular culture, digital pedagogy

Skiles 301
(404) 894-8923

Jennifer Parrott, PhD Candidate, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Twentieth-century Bristish and Irish fiction and drama, Contemporary Irish women playwrights, travel writing,

Skiles 329
(404) 894-0626

Celia Pearce, Ph.D., SMARTlab Centre, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Sociology of massively multiplayer games and virtual worlds, spatial media, game design

Skiles 361
404-385-0836

Manuel Perez-Tejada, Ph.D. Candidate, Kansas
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Mexican cinema, documentary films, critical political economy, cultural studies

Skiles 303
(404) 894-2738

JC Reilly, Ph.D., Nebraska
STAC Program Advisor
Research interests: Women's Spirituality Studies, Women's Studies, Poetry & Poetics

Skiles 321
404-894-1289

Todd Reynolds, Ph.D., Florida
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Nineteenth century US literature and culture, technology and the social division of labor

Skiles 315
(404) 894-1021

Paulette Richards, Ph.D., University of Virginia
Brittain Post-Doctorial Fellow
Research interests: Digital video as technical discourse

Skiles 328
(404) 894-6816

Ozge Samanci
Ph.D Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant


Lisa Schneider, Ph.D., Emory University
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Twentieth-century American literature, poetry and poetics, literary theory, cultural studies, composition

Skiles 307
(404) 894-7626

Carol Senf, Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo
Professor
Associate Chair
Research interests: Victorian Studies and the Gothic.

Skiles 355
(404) 894-7003

Jay Telotte, Ph.D., Florida
Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research interests: Film & technology, science fiction film

Skiles 333
(404) 894-6209

Eugene Thacker, Ph.D., Rutgers
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Media studies, science studies, biotechnology and culture

Skiles 022
(404) 385-2766

Daniel Vollaro, Ph.D., Georgia State
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Canon formation, literary history, genocide studies, H. D. Thoreau

Skiles 316
(404) 894-7491

Allison Whitney, Ph.D., Chicago
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Cinema and media studies, communications, gender studies

Skiles 316
(404) 894-1024

Andrea Wood, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Florida
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research interests: Gender & sexuality studies, LGBTQ literature and film, popular genres, comics and animation, feminist and queer theory, fandom, Japanese pop culture

Skiles 303
(404) 894-2738

Robert Wood, Ph.D., Virginia
Associate Professor
Research interests: Renaissance science, shakespeare

Skiles 325
(404) 894-7631

Lisa Yaszek, Ph.D., Wisconsin
Associate Professor
STAC Director
Research interests: Science fiction, gender studies, contemporary literature

Skiles 306
(404) 894-1022

Jichen Zhu
Ph.D Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant