Dene Grigar (née Rudyne) is a digital artist and scholar based in Vancouver, Washington. She was the president of the Electronic Literature Organization from 2013 to 2019. In 2016, Grigar received the International Digital Media and Arts Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. As director of the Electronic Literature Lab at Washington State University, Vancouver, Grigar collects, preserves, and analyzes digital media.

Dene Grigar married John Barber. Her mother is from what was then Czechoslovakia.

Her interest in electronic literature began in fall 1991 when she took a graduate course with Nancy Kaplan in hypertext. She graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas with an MA in humanities in 1991 and a PhD in humanities in 1995.

Grigar is currently the professor and director of The Creative Media & Digital Culture in the Department of Digital Technology & Culture at Washington State University Vancouver.

Grigar is professor and director of the Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver. Her scholarship is largely focused on electronic literature, and has appeared in journals like Computers and Composition and Technoculture. She co-authored Traversals: The Use of Preservation for Early Electronic Writing (MIT Press 2017) with Stuart Moulthrop. The book was a product of a 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Startup Grant. Grigar's scholarly interests can be traced back to the early 1990s, when she took a class with Nancy Kaplan.

Grigar was a member of the Kairos editorial board.

Grigar co edited a volume of essays, Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms, and Practices. This work collates essays on the state of electronic literature in 2021. Source:

Grigar's essays mainly concern pedagogy and archiving aspects of electronic literature.