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Jim Brown Director jamesjbrownjr.net jim.brown@rutgers.edu Jim Brown is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Digital Studies Center. His research focuses on the ethical and rhetorical dimensions of new media technologies, and he teaches courses in new media, digital rhetoric and writing, videogame studies, and electronic literature. His work…

Spring 2017 Digital Studies Courses

…about what it means to be human. Variations of our multitudinous selves exist concurrently IRL and across increasingly more digital platforms, such as on social media and in persistent-world video games. Using Camden, New Jersey’s most famous son for inspiration, the objective of our course will be to better understand…

2017-2018 Fellows

world around us, from Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams to Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr’s historic debates about quantum physics. He has presented and exhibited his work at The Libraries at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark; Post-Screen: International Festival of Art, New Media and Cybercultures in Lisbon, Portugal; the

2015-2016 Fellows

market a video game with the intention of self-publishing it in the real world. Given today’s indie- and art-game landscape, and given the recent democratizing of game-making tools, what is possible for a small team of students with a small budget? DH Certificate Course: Interactive Storytelling, or: “Help, I’ve Never…

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Summer 2015 DH Courses

…climate events through twitter or instagram, working with contemporary world climate data, or tracking and analyzing the rise of the language of climate change through Google Ngrams. Special Topics in American Studies: Race and the Digital Instructor: Asha Best asbest@scarletmail.rutgers.edu Summer 2015 Online Course 7/6-8/12 This writing intensive course is…