Henry Jenkins

Email: henry3@mit.edu
Extension: x3-3068
Office: 14N-205
Department: Literature

Henry Jenkins (John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities) is the Director of the Comparative Media Studies graduate program. His books include Science Fiction Audiences: Watching Doctor Who and Star Trek; Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture; From Barbie to Mortal Kombat, a study of gender, narrative and video games; The Children's Culture Reader; and Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture. His current research interests center around digital aesthetics, media convergence, transmedia storytelling, computer games, and youth culture. His current research interests center around digital aesthetics, media convergence, transmedia storytelling, computer games, and youth culture. He discusses these and many other topics relating to the intersection of culture and technology through his column, "The Digital Renaissance," featured each month in Technology Review.