FACULTY

Ian Bogost
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Research interests: Videogame criticism, videogame rhetoric, and visualization, including game design and educational, persuasive, and political speech in games
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Philip Auslander
Professor
Research interests: Performance studies, media studies, cultural studies, popular music
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Jay Bolter
Professor
Wesley Chair of New Media Studies
Research interests: Augmented Reality design, media theory
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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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TyAnna Herrington
Associate Professor
Research interests: Intellectual property, technical communication, global distance learning
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Kenneth Knoespel
Professor
Interim Dean of the Ivan Allen College
Research interests: Newtonian science, scientific narrative
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Christopher Le Dantec
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Participatory design, values in design, human-centerd computing, community computing & informatics, urban computing.
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Brian Magerko
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Creativity and cognition, interactive narrative, Game AI, educational media, and board game studies
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Alexandra (Ali) Mazalek
Associate Professor
Research interests: Tangible and embodied interaction, emerging technologies, experimental media, creativity and design, interaction design, media arts and entertainment
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Janet Murray
Professor
Research interests: Interactive narrative, experimental television, interaction design
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Michael Nitsche
Associate Professor
Research interests: Interaction in mixed med
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Celia Pearce
Associate Professor
Research interests: Sociology of massively multiplayer games and virtual worlds, spatial media, game design
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Jaqueline Royster
Dean of the Ivan Allen College
Professor
Research interests: Rhetorical studies, literacy studies, and women's studies
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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.