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Brian Greenspan |
Sarah Brouillette |
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Brian
Greenspan is an Associate Professor in the Department of
English and the doctoral program in Cultural Mediations at Carleton
University. He is the designer and founding director of the Hypertext
and Hypermedia Lab, and co-designer of the first "live"
and "locative" hypernarrative systems. His research interests
include utopian narratives, digital cultures, and the intersections
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Sarah Brouillette
is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at
Carleton University. She researches the political, technological and
economic circumstances that underpin the production, circulation and
reception of contemporary literature. Her interests include the history
and future of books and reading, relationships between cultural and
economic development, and mapping the transnational circulation and
translation of literature. |
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Sara Jamieson |
Chris Eaket |
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Sara
Jamieson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English
at Carleton University, where she teaches Canadian Literatures. Her
research interests include loss and mourning in modern and contemporary
Canadian poetry and the representation of aging in contemporary Canadian
fiction. |
Chris Eaket is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of English and Theatre & Film Studies
at the University of Georgia. A graduate of
Carleton's Cultural Mediations Doctoral program, Chris specializes in the
fields of Performance, Technology and Literature. His interests include
spatial theory, embodiment, locative media, liminal performance, sound
design, hypermedia and video game design. Chris's other hobby-horses
include virtualization, green tech, urbanism, directing, visual culture
and emerging technologies. He has taught classes in Introductory and
Modern Drama, British Fiction, Science Fiction and Contemporary Critical
Theory. In his spare time he tinkers, fixes, designs and creates. |
current students
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Jennifer R. Whitson |
Jessica Aldred |
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| Jennifer R. Whitson is a Sociology PhD student at Carleton University. Her current research interests include digital identity management, governance in online domains-specifically MMOs and virtual worlds-and social influences on software development processes. Her most recent work includes a chapter, co-authored with Aaron Doyle, on virtual world governance in Stéphane Leman-Langlois' edited collection, Technocrime, and an article on identity theft, co-authored with Kevin Haggerty, in the November 2008 issue of Economy & Society. She holds a Canada Graduate Scholarship and was co-editor of the 2005 special double volume of the journal Surveillance and Society on 'Doing Surveillance Studies'. Her favorite games include the Ratchet and Clank franchise, Katamari Damacy, and World of Goo. | Jessica Aldred is a doctoral candidate researching the growing intersections between cinema and video games in the age of media convergence. Her dissertation examines the shifting ways in which digital human characters have been constructed and received within the the computer-generated blockbuster, and how this treatment has been influenced by the increasingly-ubiquitous relationship between gamer and avatar. Jessica was awarded a SSHRC Canada Graduate scholarship to pursue her doctoral studies. Her work has been published in Animation, An Interdisciplinary Journal. |
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Lauren Burr |
Xan Woods |
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| Lauren Burr is a Master’s candidate in English Literature at Carleton University. Her interests include hypertext fiction, transmediation, locative media, spatial theory and ARGs. Lauren’s current research examines the influence of digital technologies on contemporary works of experimental print literature and the remediation of these texts as interactive digital media. Following the Master’s program, she plans to pursue her research further at the doctoral level. | Xan Woods is a visual artist and a master's student in the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University. Her research focuses on challenging traditional forms of academic expression at the postsecondary level to make room for diverse experimental emotional learning. Xan is a supporter for, and a creator of, articulations of knowledge that are nonlinear, embodied, digital and artistic. An inexperienced hyperlaber, Xan is keen to ride the techno wave, swallow the yellow feather, and move above and b e y o n d the REAL. |
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Philip Horwitz |
Tom Everrett |
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| Philip Horwitz is a Master’s candidate in English Literature at Carleton University. With dual bachelor’s degrees in English literature and computer science, Phil has a wide variety of interests, including human computer interaction, cognitive science, linguistics, hypernarratology, and locative media. Given his background, Phil is poised to bridge the gap between locative media’s technical and literary considerations. His current research examines the technological mediation of narrative and the implications of extra-textual elements and cognitive bias. | Tom Everrett is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Art & Culture at Carleton University, where he is working toward an interdisciplinary PhD in Technology & Culture. His research focuses broadly on the historical relationship between sound, technology, and everyday life, with a specific focus on the cultural history of headphones (1877-present). When not busy calming anxieties about the future of human interaction in a pro-headphone culture, Tom keeps an active ear to the wired streets in his sound/technology news blog Ears Wide Shut (earswideshut.tumblr.com). |
adjunct researchers
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Elise Vist |
Natalie King, M.A. |
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| Elise Vist completed her M.A. in English at Carleton in 2009. She is interested in hypertexts, particularly those which are fictional works produced and read online. Her focus at the moment is the usability and accessibility of these texts for people who are visually impaired. The opportunity to link the study of electronic literature with a passion for open source development is irresistible, and she hopes to be able to work on this someday in a PhD. Elise gets to the lab whenever she has the opportunity. Any other free time is usually taken up by catching up on all the TV, movies and books on her ever growing list of "must-see/watch/read." | Natalie King
completed her Master's degree in English Literature at Carleton University.
Her research focuses on representations of the posthuman body in virtual
reality, particularly racial representations as constructed in video
games such as the Grand Theft Auto series. Her work has been published
in bywords.ca and Arc magazine. She credits the creative atmosphere
of the hyperlab with coaxing out her inner rock star. |
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Sarah Thorne, M.A. |
Luke LeBrun |
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| Sarah Thorne completed her Master of Art's degree in English Literature at Carleton University in 2009. Her research interests include critical theory, psychoanalysis (Freudian/Lacanian), technology, cinema, hypermedia, transmediation, and various combinations thereof. Her MA research paper analyzed the impact of transmediation on fantasy and neurosis in Geoff Ryman's fictional hypertext 253, which was initially released as a website and later printed as a novel. | Luke LeBrun completed his M.A. in English at Carleton in 2010. He's interested in what Arjun Appadurai terms "the production of locality"--the cultivation of local spaces and identities--and how the local often exerts (largely unexplored) influences on cultural / national / gendered / class-inflected subjectivities. Luke's involvement in the Hypertext Lab is related to the research and development of new locative media texts that blend hypertext narratives with engaging experiences of urban environments. |
former students
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Valerie Bherer |
Minh Tran (2007-2008) |
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| Valerie Bherer is a Master's student in the English department, but she has been known to come up with various strategies in order to avoid focusing solely on literature. As such, she has written on movie adaptations, popular culture, and video games. Her main research explores the connections between postmodernism, consumerism, feminism, and young adult romance novels. In her spare time, she tries to prevent further damage to her carpal tunnel by switching between playing games and watching teen TV series. | Minh graduated in 2008 with an MA in Psychology from Carleton University. He is interested in the influence of technology use on cognition and behaviour. His MA thesis was a qualitative study of collaboration among software developers in the context of socio-technical environments. His favorite weapon is the shock rifle. |
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Cindy Ma |
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| Cindy Ma is an M.A. student in Carleton's English program. Her primary reseach interests concern issues of culture, nationalism, and belonging; she is also interested in new media and the intersections between literature and film. She hopes to one day pursue further education in cinema and media studies, with an emphasis on Canadian film. In her free time, she enjoys mainlining coffee, watching zombie movies, and using an excessive number of superlatives. |
