DEGREES AND CANDIDACY

PhD Candidate in English, University of Washington (June 2008).
Dissertation (in progress): Invisible Technologies?: Magnetic Recording’s Cultures
Committee: Herbert Blau (Chair), Jessica Burstein, Tom Foster, and Phillip Thurtle

MA in English, University of Washington (June 2006).
Master’s Essay: The Avant-Garde and the Cold, Cold Heart of the Network Society
Readers: Herbert Blau and Tom Foster

BA in English, Virginia Commonwealth University (June 2001).  Magna Cum Laude with Honors.

BS in Criminal Justice, Virginia Commonwealth University (June 2001). Magna Cum Laude with Honors.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

The Digital Humanities: Synthesizing technical competencies in computing and design with critical inquiry, collaboration, cultural history, and the study of literature.

Media Studies and Media Ecology: Producing new media as a form of scholarship and researching the intersections between media systems since the mid-nineteenth century.

Anglo-American Modernism: Stressing the relationships between modernization, technologies, and modernist literature, culture, and aesthetics.

Technoculture Studies: Blending methods in Birmingham and Australian Schools of Cultural Studies to examine how technology is culturally embedded, with an emphasis on labor and expertise.

Technology-Focused Learning: Pedagogy stressing the critical potential of technology in humanities research, higher education, and community-based learning.

GRADUATE COURSEWORK

Graduate School 620 – Teaching Mentorship Seminar, “Being Mentored, Becoming a Mentor” w/ Lana Rae Lenz and Jennie Dorman

2007 Institute on the Public Humanities for Doctoral Students w/ Miriam Bartha and Bruce Burgett

Humanities 597A - Reading Jame Joyce’s Ulysses (Micro-seminar) w/ Derek Attridge, Solomon Katz Distinguished Lecturer

English 505 – America Everyday (Theories of American Literature) w/ Mark Patterson

English/Comparative Litearture 507 – History of Literary Criticism & Theory I (Plato and Aristotle) w/ Henry Staten (audit)

English/Comparative Literature 509 – History of Literary Criticism & Theory III w/ Henry Staten

English/Comparative Literature 510 – Recent and Contemporary Theory w/ Kate Cummings

English 537A – Inserting Latino Literature into U.S. American Literary History w/ Monika Kaup

English 540 – Intro to Modernism w/ Jessica Burstein

English 541 – Posthuman Narratives: Ethnicity & Technicity w/ Tom Foster

English 546 – Narratives of Affect/Affective Narratives: Emotion in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture (Topics in Twentieth Century Literature) w/ Carolyn Allen

English 567A – Approaches to Teaching Composition w/ Anis Bawarshi

English 556/Humanities 596 - Cyborg Democracy w/ Tom Foster

English 559A/Comparative Literature 596D - Traditions of the Avant-Garde w/ Herbert Blau

English 559B/ Comparative Literature 596C – Philosophy & Literature w/ Marshall Brown

Comparative Literature 596B – Globalization & Cinema w/ James Tweedie

Comparative Literature 596E – Nationalism & Narrative w/ Francisco Benitez

English 600 – 20th Century Critical Theory Independent Study w/ Herbert Blau

Architecture 561 – Urban Design Theory w/ Nicole Huber (audit)

OTHER UW COURSES

English 355 - Contemporary American Literature w/ Kate Cummings (non-matriculated)

Spanish 301 – Grammar & Lexicon w/ Maria Gillman

Spanish 350 - Introduction to Theater Studies w/ Anna Witte

Architecture 352 – History of Modern Architecture, 1750-present w/ Jeffrey Ochsner (audit)

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