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Ellen Strain

Assistant Professor
School of Literature, Communication and Culture

Ellen Strain teaches multimedia design and video production in the Information Design and Technology Program, within the School of Literature, Culture and Communication. At the undergraduate level, she teaches primarily film classes.

Her research is dedicated to the theorization of cross-cultural spectatorship in popular culture, with particular attention to the effects of visual technologies ranging from stereoscopes and film to virtual reality. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled "Public Places, Private Journeys: Technology and the Mobilized Gaze of the Tourist." The manuscript moves from stereographs forward to virtual reality with particular emphasis on the use of exoticized environments and cross-cultural interactions as an ideal testing ground for newly introduced immersive technologies.

She also conducts research on the project, "Griffith in Context," a multimedia tool for the analysis of the 1915 film "Birth of a Nation;" jointly authored by GVU faculty member Greg VanHoosier-Carey. Other research interests include the history of immersive entertainment forms and multimedia interventions in film studies pedagogy. Ellen has a Ph.D. in Critical Studies from the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television.

Contact information:

    Ellen Strain
    Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center
    College of Computing
    801 Atlantic Drive
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Atlanta, GA, 30332-0280
    E-mail: ellen.strain@lcc.gatech.edu

 

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