Janet Murray

Distinguished Professor

Member Of:
  • School of Literature, Media, and Communication
  • ADVANCE IAC
  • Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center
Email Address:
jmurray@gatech.edu
Fax Number:
404-894-2833
Office Location:
TSRB 320A
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Overview

Personal Pronouns:
she/her

Dr. Janet Murray is a Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, as well as Director of the Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center (http://dilac.iac.gatech.edu ) . She received her PhD in English from Harvard. Her primary research interests are interactive design, interactive narrative, and the history and development of representational media. Her widely known book, Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace, asks whether we can expect this new medium to support a new expressive art form, comparable to the Shakespearean theater or the Victorian novel in its ability to move and enlighten us. She is mostly optimistic about this possibility. Her textbook, Inventing the Medium: Principles of Interaction Design as a Cultural Practice (MIT Press, 2011) unites the myriad traditional disciplines in which interactive designers are now trained into a single coherent digitally focused design vocabulary. Her Prototyping eNarrative group (PENlab) creates prototypes of emerging narrative structures including interactive television, story-games, and virtual/augmented reality  (http://penlab.gatech.edu ). She is an emerita member of the Board of Trustees of the American Film Institute and the Board of the Peabody Awards, an Inaugural Fellow of the Higher Education Video Game Alliance, and a frequent keynote speaker for conferences at the intersection of games and narrative.

Areas of
Expertise:
  • Computational Media
  • Educational Computing
  • Game Design
  • Narrative Studies

Interests

Research Fields:
  • Digital Media
  • Literary and Cultural Studies
  • Media Studies
Issues:
  • Gender
  • Media

Courses

  • LCC-3406: Video Production
  • LCC-4720: Interactive Narrative
  • LCC-6313: Prin-Interactive Design
  • LCC-6317: Interactive Fiction
  • LCC-6650: Project Studio
  • LCC-6800: Master's Project
  • LMC-4720: Interactive Narrative
  • LMC-6313: Prin of Interaction Desi
  • LMC-6317: Interactive Fiction
  • LMC-6650: Project Studio
  • LMC-6800: DM MS Project Course
  • LMC-8801: Special Topics
  • LMC-8813: Adv Issues Interactive