Dr. Ken Knoespel, Professor and Chair of the School of Literature, Communication and Culture, will serve as interim dean of the Ivan Allen College. The announcement was made May 18, 2009 by Georgia Tech Provost Gary Schuster who stated that "Dr. Knoespel's expertise as an administrator and knowledge of the College led to wide support for his appointment." Knoespel officially assumes leadership of the College on July 1, 2009 when current dean Sue V. Rosser leaves to become Provost of San Francisco State University.

Dr. Knoespel is McEver Professor of Engineering and the Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech and has served as Chair of the Ivan Allen College School of Literature, Communication, and Culture since 2003. He was Associate Dean of the College 2000-2003 and served as Interim Dean 1998-1999. He will lead the College until a new dean is named. Selection of a search committee and the initiation of an international search for the College's next leader will commence soon.

Knoespel has published widely in visualization and science studies and most recently has taught graduate seminars in the College of Architecture devoted to the design and morphology and the future of museums. Work from the seminars has been presented in Greece, Italy, France, England, and Denmark. In addition to recent work on cognition and visual practice in mathematics and architecture, he has worked on problems of ambiguity within the natural and human sciences. He has worked closely with universities in Europe as well as Russia and is currently completing a project concerned with cities and landscape on the Baltic Sea.

At Georgia Tech, Dr. Knoespel has participated in the development of undergraduate and graduate programs that focus on emergent digital media. He was a founding editor of Configurations: A Journal for Literature, Science, and Technology, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. He has held research appointments at Cornell University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at the Russian Academy of Science.

Knoespel received his PhD from the University of Chicago and has taught at the University of Uppsala, the University of Chicago, Cornell University, Blekinge Tekniska H gskola, and the Russian Academy of Science.