Institute Faculty
Bryan Alexander
Senior Scholar, Learning Design, and Technology program; Georgetown University
Bryan Alexander is an award–winning, internationally known futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, consultant, and teacher, working in the field of higher education’s future. Bryan is currently a senior scholar at Georgetown University and teaches graduate seminars in their Learning, Design, and Technology program. He completed an English language and literature PhD at the University of Michigan in 1997. Since then he taught literature, writing, multimedia, and information technology studies at Centenary College of Louisiana before leading emerging technology and collaboration development programs with the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE). Bryan speaks widely and publishes frequently, with articles and interviews appearing in venues from the New York Times to MSNBC and the Wall Street Journal. His third book, Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education, won an Association of Professional Futurists award. His latest book, Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Age of Climate Crisis, appeared from Johns Hopkins in 2023.
Areas of Expertise
- AI and climate change
- AI and curriculum
- AI and liberal education
- AI and storytelling
- AI and strategic planning
- AI and the future of higher education
- AI-enabled pedagogy