Overview
Background
Maureen Engel is a Lecturer in Digital Culture in the School of Communication and Arts. She was formerly Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta, Canada. 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.
Availability
- Dr Maureen Engel is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Alberta
Works
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Featured
2018
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.
Featured
2017
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
2025
Other Outputs
Dear Mrs. Livingston: hypertext as queer desire lines
Engel, Maureen and Fisher, Caitlin (2025). Dear Mrs. Livingston: hypertext as queer desire lines. Toronto, Canada: ELO25@2025 Juried Exhibition and Media Arts Festival.
2025
Conference Publication
Queering the digital: spatial orientations, temporal imaginaries, and communal aspirations
Engel, Maureen and Fisher, Caitlin (2025). Queering the digital: spatial orientations, temporal imaginaries, and communal aspirations. ISEA 2025, Seoul, South Korea, 23-29 May 2025.
2024
Conference Publication
A Queer Arcades Project
Engel, Maureen and Fisher, Caitlin (2024). A Queer Arcades Project. ELO (Un)linked 2024, Virtual, 18-21 July 2024.
2023
Conference Publication
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.
2023
Conference Publication
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.
2023
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.
2022
Conference Publication
Queer Ghosts: An XR Arcade
Fisher, Caitlin and Engel, Maureen (2022). Queer Ghosts: An XR Arcade. Critical Digital Humanities, Toronto, ON, Canada, 30 September-1 October 2022.
2021
Conference Publication
Edge Effects: Queer Virtual Arcades
Fisher, Caitlin and Engel, Maureen (2021). Edge Effects: Queer Virtual Arcades. Electronic Literature Association, Online, May 2021.
2019
Conference Publication
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.
2019
Conference Publication
“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.
2018
Conference Publication
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.
2018
Conference Publication
“Launching Go Queer”
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.
2017
Conference Publication
“Go Queer”
Engel, Maureen (2017). “Go Queer” . HASTAC 2017, Orlando, FL, United States, November 2017.
2017
Conference Publication
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.
2017
Conference Publication
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.
2017
Conference Publication
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.
2017
Conference Publication
Go Queer
Engel, Maureen (2017). Go Queer. Digital Humanities 2017, Montréal, QC, Canada, August 2017.
2016
Journal Article
The space of simultaneity
Engel, Maureen (2016). The space of simultaneity. English Studies in Canada, 42 (3-4), 15-17. doi: 10.1353/esc.2016.0024
Supervision
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Supervision history
Completed supervision
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
The Traveller's Woven Path: Digital Game Theory, Dramaturgy, and Audience Experience in Ergodic Theatre
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Bernadette Cochrane
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