Guests of the Center for Digital Narrative
Visiting researchers and artists to the CDN
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Current and future guests
Vanessa de Carvalho
Vanessa de Carvalho is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her research explores the dynamic interplay between novels and digital media, combining case studies with insights from contemporary scholarship. Grounded in the Theory of the Novel, her dissertation investigates how this genre adapts and evolves within the field of Electronic Literature. Vanessa’s approach is enriched by the Latin American critical tradition, which highlights the novel’s inherent flexibility across diverse temporal, spatial, and cultural contexts.
Yolanda de Gregorio
Yolanda de Gregorio is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cadiz, Spain, specializing in English Philology. She completed her PhD with a focus on digital female narratives, analyzing works like "Fitting the Pattern" by Christine Wilks and "Pry" by Samantha Gorman and D. Cannizzaro. Her research focuses on digital/electronic literature, particularly interested in female digital narratives. Her most recent work explores the application of artificial intelligence in this field.
Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang
Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang is a senior lecturer in the English Department at the University of Ghana. He is also the Academic Director for SIT Ghana, a study abroad program. Opoku-Agyemang's research focuses on African digital literature. He has published articles on topics such as flash fiction in Ghana, the use of technology in African literature, and the representation of slavery in West African digital literature. He has also guest-edited special issues of journals such as the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds and Postcolonial Text.
Torill Elvira Mortensen
Torill Elvira Mortensen is a Professor at Nord University in Norway. She has a long-standing career in academia, focusing on digital games, online cultures, and social media. She has published numerous works on these subjects and is involved in developing new educational programs in journalism and communication.
Evgenia Kleidona
Evgenia Kleidona is a PhD candidate in the Department of American Literature and Culture, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her doctoral research focuses on Interactive Fiction, while her broader academic interests include contemporary American literature and culture, digital media, gender studies, and linguistics. She is a member of the Multimodal Research and Reading Group at AUTh, and the Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS).
