faculty
Helen J Burgess is an Assistant Professor in the Communication and Technology track.
Dr Burgess received her BA(Hons) and MA(Dist.) in English Language and Literature from Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand, and her PhD in English from West Virginia University.
She is active in the new media research community as editor of the online
journal Hyperrhiz: new Media Cultures, and technical editor of Rhizomes:
Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge.
Dr Burgess is coauthor of Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Enounters with Mars and Biofutures: Owning Body Parts and Information, both titles published in the Mariner10 interactive DVD-Rom series at the University of Pennsylvania Press. She has interests in multimedia and web development, open source and open content production, electronic literature, and science fiction.
Her next DVD-Rom project is Futurama, Autogeddon: Imagining the
Superhighway from the World's Fair to the World Wide Web, a study of media
representations of the American Interstate Superhighway system.
