School of Communication and Arts

Dr Maureen Engel

Lecturer
School of Communication and Arts
Affiliate of Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies
Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies
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Researcher biography

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.

Publications

Book Chapters (2)
Journal Articles (8)
Conference Papers (14)

Book Chapters

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.
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.

Journal Articles

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
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).
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.
Cobb, Russell, Engel, Maureen, Laforest, Daniel and Zwicker, Heather (2012). Edmonton Pipelines: living together in the digital city. Reviews in Cultural Theory , 2 (3).
Engel, Maureen, Caplan, Wendy and Davies, Joanne (2006). From hyperlinks to human links: grassroots networks on large campuses. Distance Learning Administration Annual.
Engel, Maureen and Fisher, Caitlin (1998). Women and wires: feminist connections and the politics of cyberspace. Women and Environments (42-43).

Conference Papers

Engel, Maureen (2023). AI Bias and Communities of Practice: The Case of MidJourney. HASTAC 2023, New York, NY United States, 7-10 June 2023.
Fisher, Caitlin and Engel, Maureen (2023). Critical Experiments with Computational Creativity. HASTAC 2023, New York, NY United States, 7-10 June 2023.
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.
Fisher, Caitlin and Engel, Maureen (2021). Edge Effects: Queer Virtual Arcades. Electronic Literature Association, Online, May 2021.
Engel, Maureen (2019). Locative media as queer technology: other orientations. Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, Brisbane, QLD Australia, October 2019.
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.
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 (2018). Locative Media for Queer Histories: Scaling up ‘Go Queer’. Digital Humanities 2018, Mexico City, Mexico, June 2018.
Engel, Maureen (2017). Go Queer: A Ludic, Locative Media Experiment. QGCon 2017 (Queerness and Games), Los Angeles, United States, April 2017.
Engel, Maureen and Zwicker, Heather (2017). Op. Cit: The Indian Hospital in a Context of Reconciliation. Geomedia, Karlstad, Sweden, May 2017.
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.
Engel, Maureen (2017). “Go Queer” . HASTAC 2017, Orlando, FL, United States, November 2017.
Engel, Maureen (2017). Go Queer. Digital Humanities 2017, Montréal, QC, Canada, August 2017.

Areas of research

Media and Cultural Studies