Janet Murray

Janet Murray is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Literature, Media, and Communication, where she directs the Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center. Her research explores interactive narrative and the evolution of storytelling through emerging technologies like virtual reality and gaming. She has authored seminal works including Hamlet on the Holodeck and Inventing the Medium, which establish foundational principles for digital media design.

Murray's research interests span:

• The development of narrative structures in digital environments
• Virtual/augmented reality applications for storytelling
• Game design theory and interactive television
• The intersection of humanities scholarship with computational media

Her publications demonstrate a consistent focus on how digital platforms transform human expression and communication, with recent work examining location-based narratives, pandemic-related serious games, and methods for creating dramatic agency in interactive systems. She leads the Prototyping eNarrative laboratory (PENlab) where she collaborates with students and researchers to develop innovative narrative formats.