Brian Greenspan is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He is the founding Director of the Hyperlab, a Digital Humanities research centre, and inventor of the StoryTrek locative media authoring system for games, interactive stories, and historical simulations. His research interests include utopian narratives, digital cultures, and the intersections between them.