Faculty
Ivan Allen College has more than 140 permanent faculty members. All have PhDs and many are internationally recognized as leaders in their fields. All permanent faculty teach undergraduate courses.
(Listings for temporary faculty and academic professionals are maintained on the individual school websites which may be accessed from the home page)
Literature, Communication, and Culture Faculty
Philip Auslander
Professor
Dr. Philip Auslander was appointed to the Georgia Tech faculty in 1987 and has been a Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture since 1999. He holds the PhD in Theatre from Cornell University. Dr. Auslander teaches primarily in the area of Performance Studies with particular interests in the performance of music, performance and technology, and the documentation of performance. (continues)
Ian Bogost
Professor
Dr. Ian Bogost is Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture and Director of the Graduate Program in Digital Media. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. Following a career in software and videogame development, he joined the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture in 2004. (continues)
Jay D. Bolter
Professor
Dr. Jay D. Bolter is a Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. He received his PhD in Classics from the University of North Carolina. He holds the Wesley Chair in New Media and is the Co-Director of the Wesley Center for New Media Research and Education. He directs the Writing Program in the School of in the Georgia Institute of Technology. (continues)
Rebecca Burnett
Professor
Dr. Rebecca Burnett is a Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. She received her BA from the University of Massachusetts, her M.Ed. Curriculum in Administration from the University of Massachusetts, and her MA and PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining LCC, she was a Professor Rhetoric & Professional Communication in the Department of English at Iowa State University. (continues)
Carol A. Colatrella
Professor
Dr. Carol Colatrella is Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, and Co-Director of the Georgia Tech Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology, which since 2002 has been sponsored by the Office of the Provost. She has been a member of the ADVANCE Team (www.advance.gatech.edu) since 2001; (continues)
Thomas H. Crawford
Associate Professor
Dr. Hugh Crawford received his PhD in American Literature from Duke University. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture in 1996. A specialist in the cultural studies of science and technology, he has published on literature and medicine, cinema and science, medical imaging technologies, the novels of Herman Melville, and the poetry of William Carlos Williams. He is past president of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, and is the editor of
Configurations: a Journal of Science, Technology and Culture published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Angela Dalle Vacche
Professor
Dr. Angela Dalle Vacche is a Full Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. Originally from Venice, Italy, she came to the US in 1978 and she earned her Ph.D in Film Studies from the University of Iowa in 1985. Since then, she has taught European and International Cinema at Vassar College, Yale University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology where she is the director of Italian Film Studies, a 6-week summer filmmaking school for documentary set up between GaTech/LCC and the University of Udine-Gorizia in North-Eastern Italy. (continues)
Carl F. DiSalvo
Assistant Professor
Dr. Carl F. DiSalvo is an Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. He earned a PhD in Design from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006 and was a visiting fellow in The Studio for Creative Inquiry and The Center for the Arts in Society from 2006-2007 (also at CMU). (continues)
Nihad M. Farooq
Assistant Professor
Dr. Nihad M. Farooq is Assistant Professor of American Studies in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. She earned her AB in English from Dartmouth College, her MA in English and American Literature and Women's Studies from Brandeis University, and her PhD in English from Duke University. (continues)
Narin F. Hassan
Associate Professor
Narin Hassan received her PhD in English from the University of Rochester in 2003. Before joining the Literature, Communication and Culture faculty at Georgia Tech, she taught at James Madison University for two years. Her research and teaching is in Victorian, postcolonial and gender studies; much of her work examines representations of the body and of medicine in nineteenth-century literature and culture. (continues)
Karen Head
Assistant Professor
Karen Head is Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska, an M.A. from the University of Tennessee, and a B.A. from Oglethorpe University. She has been at Georgia Tech for seven years, most recently serving as Graduate Communication Coordinator. (continues)
TyAnna K. Herrington
Professor
TyAnna K. Herrington, JD, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture and specializes in intellectual property law and in technical communication. Her books are in law: Intellectual Property on Campus: Students' Rights and Responsibilities; Controlling Voices: Intellectual Property, Humanistic Studies and the Internet; (continues)
Lauren Klein
Assistant Professor
Lauren Klein is Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. She received her A.B. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research interests include early American literature and culture, food studies, and the digital humanities. (continues)
Kenneth J. Knoespel
Professor
Dr. Knoespel is McEver Professor of Engineering and the Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech with appointments in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture; the School of History, Technology, and Society; and adjunct apointment in the College of Architecture. Knoespel has published widely visualization and science studies in early modern Europe. (continues)
Christopher Le Dantec
Assistant Professor
Christopher Le Dantec is Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture. He joins Ivan Allen College from Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing where he recently completed his Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing. His research is focused on integrating theoretical, empirical, and design-based investigations of community technologies with a focus on developing mobile information technologies for the urban homeless. (continues)
Blake Leland
Associate Professor
Dr. Blake Leland received the PhD in 1988 from Cornell University, and has taught in Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Communication, and Culture since then. He teaches primarily in the School's degree program in Science Technology and Culture. His scholarly work on the psychology of literary production, especially of poetry, has appeared in journals such as Diacritics, English Literary History, Genre, and Twentieth Century Literature. (continues)
Thomas N. Lux
Professor
Thomas Lux was born in Massachusetts in December 1946 and graduated from Emerson College. He has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and three time recipient of NEA grants. In 1994, he was awarded the Kinglsey Tufts prize for his book SPLIT HORIZON. (continues)
Brian Magerko
Assistant Professor
Dr. Brian Magerko is an Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. He received his B.S. in Cognitive Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and his M.S. and PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan. His research interests include computational creativity, cognitive science, interactive narrative and digital game-based learning. (continues)
Alexandra Mazalek
Associate Professor
Dr. Alexandra (Ali) Mazalek is an associate professor in the Digital Media program in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, and an adjunct assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing. She is a member of the interdisciplinary GVU Center and director of the Synaesthetic Media Lab. (continues)
Janet H. Murray
Professor
Dr. Janet Murray, Ivan Allen College Dean's Recognition Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, received her PhD in English from Harvard. Her primary research interests are interactive design, interactive narrative, and the history and development of representational media. (continues)
Vinicius Navarro
Assistant Professor
Vinicius Navarro, whose interests span the fields of cinema and performance studies, earned his PhD in cinema studies from New York University. He has written on documentary and experimental film and is the co-author (with Louise Spence) of Crafting Truth: Documentary Form and Meaning (Rutgers University Press, 2011). (continues)
Michael Nitsche
Associate Professor
Dr. Michael Nitsche joined the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture in 2004, and formed the Digital World & Image Group DWIG (http://dwig.lcc.gatech.edu/) shortly after. His research looks into digital spaces, where and how they intersect with physical environments. Combining video games, mobile technology, and digital performances, he experiments with borderline areas of digital and physical media. (continues)
Celia Pearce
Associate Professor
Dr. Celia Pearce is an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture specializing in games research and media arts. After a 20+ year career in interactive media, she received her PhD in Media Arts in 2006 from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. (continues)
Anne Pollock
Assistant Professor
Anne Pollock is an Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Culture in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture. Trained in the interdisciplinary field of Science, Technology & Society at MIT, her research focuses on biomedicine and culture. She is particularly interested in how medical categories and technologies are enrolled in telling stories about identity and difference, especially with regard to race, gender, and citizenship. (continues)
Jacqueline Jones Royster
Dean, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
Dr. Royster is Dean of Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. She holds the Ivan Allen Jr. Dean’s Chair in Liberal Arts and Technology, and is Professor of English in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. A graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta, Royster earned an M.A. (continues)
Aaron Santesso
Associate Professor
Aaron Santesso received his PhD in English from Queen’s University, specializing in seventeenth and eighteenth-century literature. Before coming to Georgia Tech, he taught at Yale University, Wesleyan University, and the University of Nevada. His first book, A Careful Longing: The Poetics and Problems of Nostalgia, argues that our modern understanding of nostalgia is partly the legacy of eighteenth-century “nostalgia poems.” He has co-edited three books, including, most recently, a collection on Swift and satire from Cambridge University Press. (continues)
Carol A. Senf
Professor
Dr. Carol Senf received her PhD in Victorian Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1979 and came to Georgia Tech in 1981. Currently Professor and Associate Chair in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech, Senf has published articles on Victorian literature in Gothic Studies, Victorian Studies,College English, and Victorians Institute Journal. (continues)
John Sharp
Assistant Professor
John Sharp is Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. He is a game designer, graphic designer, art historian and educator. His design work is focused on social network games, artgames and non-digital games. His research is focused on game design curriculum, the artgames movement, videogame aesthetics, the history of play, and the early history of computer and video games. (continues)
Jay P. Telotte
Professor
Dr. Jay P. Telotte received his PhD in English from the University of Florida. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor of English in 1979 and in 1991 was promoted to Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. A specialist in film history and genres, he has authored eight books, edited three others, published more than a hundred scholarly articles, and presented numerous conference papers. (continues)
Qi Wang
Assistant Professor
Qi Wang has a Ph.D in Film and Television (2008, UCLA), M.S. in Comparative Media Studies (2002, MIT), M.L. in International Communication (1999, Beijing University), and B.A. in English Literature (1996, Beijing University). Her research interests include issues of historicity, spatiality, and physicality in cinema and new media; (continues)
Robert E. Wood
Associate Professor
Dr. Robert E. Wood is an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. He received his PhD in English from the University of Virginia as well as an M.S. in Mathematics from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He was an Instructor of Mathematics for two years at Brooklyn Polytech and joined the Georgia Tech faculty in English in 1974. (continues)
Lisa Yaszek
Professor
Lisa Yaszek is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests include science fiction, gender studies, technoscience studies and cultural history. She was the 2005 recipient of the Pioneer Award for Outstanding Science Fiction Scholarship and is current President of the Science Fiction Research Association. (continues)
Visiting Faculty
Kathleen Goonan
KATHLEEN ANN GOONAN
Visiting Assistant Professor
Kathleen Ann Goonan has been at the vanguard of literary science fiction since the publication of her New York Times Notable Book QUEEN CITY JAZZ in 1994, garnering starred reviews in all major review journals, such as PW, Kirkus, and Booklist, for each of her six novels. (continues)
Krystina Madej
Visiting Assistant Professor
Krystina Madej is Visiting Assistant Professor with the School of Literature, Communications, and Culture (LCC) at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. She is also Adjunct Professor with the School for Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Her research focus is how narrative structures meaning through its presentation in different media, in particular for children. (continues)
Brittain Fellows
Brandy Ball Blake
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Brandy Ball Blake received her PhD in English literature from the University of Georgia. Her dissertation analyzes the connections between intertextuality and representations of trauma in fantasy literature.
Robert Blaskiewicz
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Robert Blaskiewicz received his PhD from Saint Louis University, with a dissertation on the fiction and memoirs of WWII combat veterans. He currently teaches writing classes that take as their subjects war literature, extraordinary/paranormal claims, and conspiracy theory.
Doris Bremm
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Doris Bremm received her PhD in 20th-Century Studies from the University of Florida. She specializes in contemporary British and American literature and intersections between literature, the visual arts, and literary theory.
Kathryn Crowther
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Kathryn Crowther received her PhD in English with a certificate in Women's Studies from Emory University. Her work focuses on the relationship between 19th-century print culture and technology and the Victorian novel.
Lauren Curtright
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Lauren Curtright received her PhD in English from the University of Minnesota. She is working on a book manuscript about the relations of images and writings of Edgar Allen Poe to cultural theories of modernity generally and to technological reproduction and destruction more specifically.
Rachel Dean-Ruzicka
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Rachel Dean-Ruzicka graduated from Bowling Green State University with a degree in American Culture Studies. She studies systems of power and privilege in American popular culture. She has published on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the films of director Wes Anderson, and the Guerrilla Girls. Her current project investigates how concepts of tolerance are disseminated through young adult Holocaust literature.
Leigh Dillard
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Leigh Dillard specializes in 18th-century British literature with a focus in book illustration and visual culture.
Michell DiMeo
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Michelle DiMeo completed an interdisciplinary PhD in English and the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Warwick, England.
Andy Frazee
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Andy Frazee received his PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Georgia.
Michelle Gibbons
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Michelle Gibbons received her PhD from the Communication Department at the University of Pittsburgh and has an MA in the History and Philosophy of Science from the same institution.
Kathleen Hanggi
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Kathleen Hanggi comes to us from the Department of English at Emory University.
John Harkey
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
John Harky received his PhD from The City University of New York.
Christine Hoffman
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Christine Hoffman received her PhD from the University of Arkansas, where she studied information overload in Early Modern society, examining how standards for credibility change in network cultures.
Jennifer Holley
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Jennifer Holley comes from the University of Connecticut. Her dissertation formally defines the child elegy and analyzes the complexities of mourning both a brief life and an unachieved maturity.
Leeann Hunter
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Leeann Hunter received her PhD in English from the University of Florida.
Diane Jakacki
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Received her PhD from the University of Waterloo, where she specialized in visual rhetoric and early modern printed drama. She is also interested in multimedia theory and design, and the challenges inherent in adopting humanities computing methods for pedagogical and research projects. She has published an article on clues about theatrical practice in the Spanish Tragedy play-text title page illustration. (continues)
Aaron Kashtan
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Aaron Kashtan completed his PhD at the University of Florida. His dissertation was about the effect of computer graphics on fantasies of handwriting. He has published articles in Digital Humanities Quarterly and Forum for World Literature. He also has a collection of over 10,000 comic books.
Sipai Klein
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Sipai Klein completed his graduate studies at New Mexico State University. His dissertation examines the multimodal composition process of three experienced professors who spent a semester designing digital texts to be delivered to students online. He has published chapters on intercultural communication and contemporary communication technologies. (continues)
Melanie Kohnen
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Melanie Kohnen completed her graduate studies at Brown University.
Tom Lolis
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Tom Lolis received his PhD at the University of Miami. His teaching and research focus on Renaissance literature, graphic novels, and the history and rhetoric of dissenting communities.
Amanda Madden
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Amanda Madden comes to us from teh department of history at Emory University, where her PhD research focused on the conjunctions between vendetta violence, familial politics, and state formation in Early Modern Italy.
Regina Martin
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Regina Martin completed her PhD at the University of Florida with a dissertation that explores how British novels between 1870 and 1940 are informed by a historical moment of financial crisis very much like our own.
Kellie Meyer
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Kellie Meyer received her PhD from the University from the University of York, England, with a dissertation that explores the religious and political ramifications of images carved on monuments associated with a Medieval monastery she helped excavate.
Michelle Miles
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Michelle Miles comes to us from Emory University, where her PhD work focused on translation and adaptation of classical Greek and Roman texts in contemporary Northern Irish poetry.
Julia Munro
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Julia Munro completed her PhD in English at the University of Waterloo, Canada, with a dissertation on the reception and representations of photography in early Victorian periodical articles, advertisements, and fiction. Her research interests include pre-photographic and early photographic technologies, Victorian literature, and nineteenth-century visual culture. (continues)
Jennifer Orth-Veillon
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Jennifer Orth-Veillon received her PhD from Emory Univeristy in Comparative Literature.
Aron Pease
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Aron Pease received his PhD from the University of Florida.
Chris Ritter
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Chris Ritter received his PhD from Washington State University, where he studied digital rhetoric, particularly in videogames.
Sarah Schiff
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Sarah Schiff received her PhD in American literature from Emory University and taught courses in American literature and composition at Agnes Scott College last year as a VAP.
Malavika Shetty
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Malavika Shetty received her PhD in linguistics from the University of Texas-Austin.
Britta Spann
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Britta Spann received her PhD from the University of Oregon, specializing in 20th-century American literature, poetry and poetics, and the classical tradition.
Jesse Stommel
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Jesse Stommel received his doctorate from the English Department at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he also taught for 10 years in the Departments of Film, Writing and Rhetoric, and English.
Katherine Tanski
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Katherine Tanski wanted to study Harry Potter when she grew up. In pursuit of this noble goal, she enrolled in the rhetoric and composition PhD program at Purdue University, where she also taught composition and professional writing.
Michael Tondre
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Michael Tondre received an A.B. from the University of California, Davis, an M.Phil from St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He is currently writing a manuscript that locates the origins of British aestheticism within a range of scientific and non-scientific discourses in the mid-nineteenth century. (continues)
Nirmal Trivedi
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Nirmal Trivedi completed his PhD in English from Boston College where he won the Donald and Helene White Prize for Best Dissertation in the Humanities.
Christopher Weedman
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
Christopher Weedman completed his PhD in English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale where his research focused on intersections between film studies and 20th-century British literature and drama.
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