Maureen Engel is a Lecturer in Digital Culture in the School of Communication and Arts. She is also Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta, Canada (on leave). At Alberta, she served as Director of Digital Humanities (2011-13; 2015-2019), and Director of the Canadian Institute for Research Computing in Arts (2011-2019). Formally trained as a textual scholar, her background is in cultural studies, queer theory, and feminist theory. She brings these methods/orientations to her research on digital culture, with a particular interest in locative media, XR, and gaming. She is the author of the game Go Queer, a ludic locative media experience of queer history.
Conference Publication: AI Bias and Communities of Practice: The Case of MidJourney
Engel, Maureen (2023). AI Bias and Communities of Practice: The Case of MidJourney. HASTAC 2023, New York, NY United States, 7-10 June 2023.
Book Chapter: Deep mapping: space, place, and narrative as urban interface
Engel, Maureen (2018). Deep mapping: space, place, and narrative as urban interface. The Routledge companion to media studies and digital humanities. (pp. 214-221) edited by Jentery Sayers. New York, NY USA: Routledge.
Journal Article: Perverting play: theorizing a queer game mechanic
Engel, Maureen (2017). Perverting play: theorizing a queer game mechanic. Television and New Media, 18 (4), 351-360. doi: 10.1177/1527476416669234
The Traveller's Woven Path: Digital Game Theory, Dramaturgy, and Audience Experience in Ergodic Theatre
Doctor Philosophy
Deep mapping: space, place, and narrative as urban interface
Engel, Maureen (2018). Deep mapping: space, place, and narrative as urban interface. The Routledge companion to media studies and digital humanities. (pp. 214-221) edited by Jentery Sayers. New York, NY USA: Routledge.
Perverting play: theorizing a queer game mechanic
Engel, Maureen (2017). Perverting play: theorizing a queer game mechanic. Television and New Media, 18 (4), 351-360. doi: 10.1177/1527476416669234
Deep mapping: space, place, and narrative as urban interface
Engel, Maureen (2018). Deep mapping: space, place, and narrative as urban interface. The Routledge companion to media studies and digital humanities. (pp. 214-221) edited by Jentery Sayers. New York, NY USA: Routledge.
Google mapping: developing reflective perspectives on health and place
Brett-MacLean, Pamela, Roder, Catherine, McNeill, Shayna, Engel, Maureen and Zwicker, Heather (2016). Google mapping: developing reflective perspectives on health and place. Keeping reflection fresh: a practical guide for clinical educators. (pp. 355-359) edited by Allan Peterkin and Pamela Brett-MacLean . Kent, Ohio, United States: The Kent State University Press.
Perverting play: theorizing a queer game mechanic
Engel, Maureen (2017). Perverting play: theorizing a queer game mechanic. Television and New Media, 18 (4), 351-360. doi: 10.1177/1527476416669234
Engel, Maureen (2016). The space of simultaneity. English Studies in Canada, 42 (3-4), 15-17. doi: 10.1353/esc.2016.0024
Burying dead projects: depositing the globalization compendium
Rockwell, Geoffrey, Day, Shawn, Yu, Joyce and Engel, Maureen (2014). Burying dead projects: depositing the globalization compendium. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 8 (2). doi: 10.7939/R3TB0Z80X
Engel, Maureen (2013). The new space of new media. Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature, 3 (1).
Campus mysteries: serious walking around
Rockwell, Geoffrey, Calen, Henry, deJong, Erik, Lucky, Shannon, Illovan, Mihaela, Gutierrez, Lucio, Gouglas, Sean, Boechler, Patricia, Engel, Maureen, Uszkalo, Kirsten and Stroulia, Eleni (2013). Campus mysteries: serious walking around. Loading: Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association, 7 (2), 1-18.
Edmonton Pipelines: living together in the digital city
Cobb, Russell, Engel, Maureen, Laforest, Daniel and Zwicker, Heather (2012). Edmonton Pipelines: living together in the digital city. Reviews in Cultural Theory , 2 (3).
From hyperlinks to human links: grassroots networks on large campuses
Engel, Maureen, Caplan, Wendy and Davies, Joanne (2006). From hyperlinks to human links: grassroots networks on large campuses. Distance Learning Administration Annual.
Women and wires: feminist connections and the politics of cyberspace
Engel, Maureen and Fisher, Caitlin (1998). Women and wires: feminist connections and the politics of cyberspace. Women and Environments (42-43).
AI Bias and Communities of Practice: The Case of MidJourney
Engel, Maureen (2023). AI Bias and Communities of Practice: The Case of MidJourney. HASTAC 2023, New York, NY United States, 7-10 June 2023.
Critical Experiments with Computational Creativity
Fisher, Caitlin and Engel, Maureen (2023). Critical Experiments with Computational Creativity. HASTAC 2023, New York, NY United States, 7-10 June 2023.
How do you make a magical object? Co-creation in Multibrush VR
Fisher, Caitlin, Engel, Maureen, Musa, Sharon, Park, Joo and Pnacekova, Michaela (2023). How do you make a magical object? Co-creation in Multibrush VR. HASTAC 2023, New York, NY United States, 7-10 June 2023.
Fisher, Caitlin and Engel, Maureen (2022). Queer Ghosts: An XR Arcade. Critical Digital Humanities, Toronto, ON, Canada, 30 September-1 October 2022.
Edge Effects: Queer Virtual Arcades
Fisher, Caitlin and Engel, Maureen (2021). Edge Effects: Queer Virtual Arcades. Electronic Literature Association, Online, May 2021.
Locative media as queer technology: other orientations
Engel, Maureen (2019). Locative media as queer technology: other orientations. Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, Brisbane, QLD Australia, October 2019.
“Visualizing Feminist Knowledge Work”
Engel, Maureen , Cowley, Kendra , Shewan, Kascie and Gardner, Paula (2019). “Visualizing Feminist Knowledge Work” . Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH/SCHN, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2-4 June 2019.
Locative Media for Queer Histories: Scaling up ‘Go Queer’
Engel, Maureen (2018). Locative Media for Queer Histories: Scaling up ‘Go Queer’. Digital Humanities 2018, Mexico City, Mexico, June 2018.
Engel, Maureen , Joseph, Kris , Aghilidehkordi, Bamdad and Oliver, Kathleen (2018). “Launching Go Queer” . Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH/SCHN), Regina, SK, Canada, May 2018.
Engel, Maureen (2017). Go Queer. Digital Humanities 2017, Montréal, QC, Canada, August 2017.
Go Queer: A Ludic, Locative Media Experiment
Engel, Maureen (2017). Go Queer: A Ludic, Locative Media Experiment. QGCon 2017 (Queerness and Games), Los Angeles, United States, April 2017.
Making Space: Digital Methods for Queer Publics
Engel, Maureen (2017). Making Space: Digital Methods for Queer Publics. Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH/SCHN) and Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féminstes (WGSRF) , Toronto, ON, Canada, May 2017.
Op. Cit: The Indian Hospital in a Context of Reconciliation
Engel, Maureen and Zwicker, Heather (2017). Op. Cit: The Indian Hospital in a Context of Reconciliation. Geomedia, Karlstad, Sweden, May 2017.
Engel, Maureen (2017). “Go Queer” . HASTAC 2017, Orlando, FL, United States, November 2017.
The Traveller's Woven Path: Digital Game Theory, Dramaturgy, and Audience Experience in Ergodic Theatre
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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