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Brian Greenspan is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University, within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. His research focuses on digital humanities, utopian studies, and new narrative media, particularly exploring intersections between print narratives and emerging technologies like hypertext, video games, and augmented reality. Greenspan co-developed the StoryTrek locative media system, used for creating spatial storytelling projects that merge urban geography with fictional and historical narratives.
He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and has received multiple grants including SSHRC Partnership Grants (2015-18), a Leverhulme International Research Network Grant (2014-16), and a Teaching Achievement Award (2017). His work emphasizes speculative archives and the ethical implications of digital media in cultural preservation and future imaginaries.
Greenspan collaborates extensively with institutions like Carleton’s Hyperlab and has delivered keynote lectures globally, including at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and the Canadian Game Studies Association. His research integrates interdisciplinary approaches to spatial narratives, wearable media, and critical utopian theory. Current projects involve mapping fictional cityscapes onto real urban environments to explore alternate historical and speculative futures.
As a supervisor, Greenspan guides doctoral students in areas like digital games, cultural mediations, and narrative transformation. His grants include collaborations on infrastructure development, animation archives, and the political economy of digital games.
