EMPLOYMENT

• Assistant Professor (2010- )
  English; Media, Art, & Text (MATX) Program
  Virginia Commonwealth University
• Assistant Professor (2003-2010)
  English, Media Studies, and Linguistics
  University of Virginia

EDUCATION

• PhD, English Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania, 1999
  
  • Dissertation: "Against Universality: Founding Cultural Studies."
    
  • Committee: Marjorie Levinson (chair), Margreta de Grazia, James English
• BA, English, Oberlin College, 1985

PUBLICATIONS
Book

1. The Cultural Logic of Computation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.

Articles in Refereed Journals and Edited Collections

1. "The Future of New Media: Embodying Kurzweil’s Singularity in Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica, and Gamer." In Kelly Gates, ed., Media Studies Futures. New York and London: Blackwell (forthcoming 2012).
2. "Playing With Rules." Response-essay to review of The Cultural Logic of Computation. Electronic Book Review (Apr 30, 2010). Online at http://www.electronicbookreview.com.
3. "Minimalism Is Functionalism." Language Sciences 32:1 (January 2010). 28-42. Download PDF.
4. "'Revolutions' and the Politics of Networks." Harvard University Press guest blog posting (Jun 24, 2009). Online at http://harvardpress.typepad.com.
5. "Games Without Play: Deconstructing World of Warcraft." New Literary History 40:1 (Winter 2009). 179-204. Download PDF.
6. "Cultural Studies and the Discourse of New Media." In Paul Smith, ed., The Renewal of Cultural Studies Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011.
7. "Computers and Cultural Studies." In Robert Kolker, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 508-526. Download PDF.
8. "The Trouble with Normal English." Politics and Culture 2008:1. Published version; local version.
9. "Representing Minority Languages and Cultures on the World Wide Web." In N. Louanna Furbee and Lenore A. Grenoble, eds., Language Documentation: Practice and Values. Philadelphia and Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010. 159-170. Download PDF.
10. "What Is Lost?" Flow 3:1 (September 2005). Published version; local version.
11. "The Interpretation of Nonconfigurationality." Language & Communication: An Interdisciplinary Journal 24:1 (January 2004). 1-22. Download PDF.
12. "Computation, Gender, and Human Thinking." differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 14:2 (Summer 2003). 27-48. Download PDF.
13. "Metadiversity: On the Unavailability of Alternatives to Information." In Marc Bousquet and Katherine Wills, eds., The Politics of Information. Five-part thread. Electronic Book Review (New York: Alt-X, 2003). Published version.
14. Daev. Gl=umläia,"Hiiperlexicoasemeopara[=tastrophism: Geo-graphist-insenstiorsme." Postmodern Culture 12:1 (September 2001). Published version (Project MUSE); local version.
15. "Toward a History of 'Language': Ong and Derrida." Oxford Literary Review 21 (1999). 73-90.
16. "Feminism and Mental Representation: Analytic Philosophy, Cultural Studies, and Narrow Content." In Emmanuela Bianchi, ed., Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy? (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1999). 202-211.
17. "Quine, Derrida, and the Question of Philosophy." The Philosophical Forum 30:3 (September 1999). 163-186. Download PDF.
18. "Quine's Ambivalence." Cultural Critique 38 (Winter 1997-98). 5-38. Download PDF.
19. "Rethinking Philosophy in the Third Wave of Feminism." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 12:3 (Summer 1997). 100-115.
20. "Hypercapital." Postmodern Culture 7:1 (September 1996). Published version (Project MUSE); local version; text-only version.
21. "Resisting 'The World': Philip K. Dick, Cultural Studies, and Metaphysical Realism." Science-Fiction Studies 23:1 (March 1996). 83-102.
22. "Black and White World: Race, Ideology, and Utopia in Triton and Star Trek." Cultural Critique 32 (Winter 1995-96). 75-96. Download PDF.
23. "Toward an Ethics of Cultural Acts: The Jamesian Dialectic in 'Broken Wings.'" The Henry James Review 15:2 (Spring 1994). 152-170.

Substantive Reviews

1. "Conference Report: The Internet as Playground and Factory (November 12-14, 2009, The New
   School).” tripleC-Cognition, Communication, Co-operation 7(2), 401-403. Online at http://www.triple-c.at/.
2. Review-essay on John E. Joseph, From Whitney to Chomsky: Essays in the History of American Linguistics . Language 83:4 (Dec 2007). 889-892. Download PDF.
3. Review of Carol L. Schmid, The Politics of Language: Conflict, Identity and Cultural Pluralism in Comparative Perspective. LINGUIST list 15:1031 (Mar 28 2004). Published version.
4. Review of Marja-Liisa Helasvuo, Syntax in the Making: The Emergence of Syntactic Units in Finnish Conversation. LINGUIST List 13.2211 (Sep 3 2002). Published version.
5. Review of Artemis Alexiadou, Functional Structure in Nominals: Nominalization and Ergativity. LINGUIST List 13:1109 (Apr 22 2002). Published version.
6. Review of Jan Terje Faarlund, ed., Grammatical Relations in Change. LINGUIST List 12:3056 (Dec 6 2001). Published version.
7. Review of George Hollich, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Michnik Golinkoff, et. al., Breaking the Language Barrier: An Emergentist Coalition Model for the Origins of Word Learning. LINGUIST List 12:1779 (Jul 9 2001). Published version.

Articles in Refereed Conference Proceedings

1. "Hierarchies, Evidentials, and the History of Constituency." In Sunyoung Oh and Naomi Sawai, eds., Proceedings of WSCLA 6: The Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas. UBCWPL Vol. 7. (Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics, 2001). 51-64.
2. "Emergence." In M. A. Gernsbacher and S. J. Derry, eds., Proceedings of the 20th Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates, 1998). 412-417.

1. uncomputing.org (2006- ) Critical digital studies and theory blog.
2. uiuuii.com (2001- ) net.art.
3. Cemaun Arapesh Digital Language Archive. (2005-08). Project directed by Lise Dobrin. Co-PI on grant administered under 2005-07 NEH/NSF Documenting Endangered Languages program. Proposal narrative (PDF). Project website.
4. ecoComputing. (2005-06). Director of project to create links between ecological and environmental thinking and computer capabilities. Project website.
5. East Cree Language Web. (2000-04). Project directed by Marie-Odile Junker and Louise Blacksmith. Developed prototypes used for successful grant proposal to Social Science and Humanities Research Council Canada (SSHRC). Content, technology and information design consultant to ongoing project. Project website.

1. "Put a Little Serotonin in Me." In Media Res (Mar 16, 2007). Published version.
2. Book notices on Anna Duszak, ed., Us and Others: Social Identities across Languages, Discourses, and Cultures; Talmy Givón and Bertram F. Malle, eds., The Evolution of Language out of Pre-Language; L. G. Kelly, The Mirror of Grammar: Theology, Philosophy and the Modistae; and Knut J. Olawsky, Urarina texts. Language 82:2 (June 2006). 454-5, 457-9.
3. Book notices on Barry J. Blake, Case, second edition, and John D. Nichols, ed., Actes du trente-deuxième Congrès des Algonquinistes. (Papers of the Algonquian Conferences 32.) Language 79:4 (December 2003). 814-5, 830-1.
4. Consulting editor to Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 1998).
5. "On Postmodern Culture's Move to Project Muse." Invited contributor to moderated public forum. Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia (1997). Edited version; unedited version.
6. "Philosophers." In The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Cathy Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin, eds. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995). 660-662.

1. "Meillassoux's Attack on Kant: 'Speculative Realism' as Symptom." Invited talk to be delivered at Radical Philosophy conference, New York NY, Columbia University (Oct 2011).
2. "Meillassoux's Categorical Failures: 'Speculative Realism' as Symptom." Invited talk to be delivered at UCSD Science Studies seminar (Oct 2011).
3. "Prediction, Stochastic  Control, and the Free Society" (invited essay in progress for Gretchen Soderlund, ed., “Charting, Tracking, and Mapping: New Technologies, Labor, and Surveillance” special issue of Social Semiotics)
4. Entries on "Critical Theory" and "Digital Media" for Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media and Textuality, ed. Marie-Laure Ryan and Ben Robertson (in progress)
5. "Reintegrating Philology." (essay in progress)
6. "The Standardization of Wikipedia." (essay in progress)
7. The Future of New Media. (book project in progress)
8. Standardization: The Open Question of Modernity. (book project in progress.)

1. Organizer and chair of discussion group panel on "Digital Literary Studies: When Will It End," MLA Annual Convention, Jan 2012.
2. "Digital Humanities' and the Future of the Humanities," and organizer and chair of invited panel on "The (Digital) Crisis in the (American) Humanities." Chesapeake American Studies Association, George Mason University, Apr 2011.
3. "Reintegrating Philology: Deconstruction, Endangered Languages, and the (Second) Chomskyan Revolution in Linguistics." VCU English Dept First Friday lecture series, Mar 2011.
4. "The Future of New Media." Seminar discussion of work in progress. Literature and New Media Working Group, Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University, Oct 2010.
5. "The Digital Securitization of Labor." The Internet as Playground and Factory conference, New School for Social Research, Nov 2009.
6. "Naxi and the Net: 'Modernization' and Digital Culture in a Minority Frame" (with Mo Qian). 7th Chinese Internet Research Conference, Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, May 2009.
7. "Englishes of the Global South." ACLA 2009, American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, March 2009.
8. "Emerging Genres, 1707/2007." MLA Annual Convention, Eighteenth-Century Studies Division panel, Chicago, Dec 2007. YouTube video.
9. "Computers and the Cultural Politics of Language." Linguistics-Anthropology Seminar, University of Virginia, Nov 2007.
10. "Becoming-Encoded." MLA Annual Convention, Special session on Reading Code, Philadelphia, PA, Dec 2006.
11. "Minimalism; or, Noam Chomsky vs. Generative Grammar." Linguistics-Anthropology Seminar, University of Virginia, Mar 2006.
12. "Representing Minority Languages and Cultures on the World Wide Web." LSA Linguistic Institute Workshop: Language Documentation: Theory, Practice, and Values. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, July 2005.
13. "Stories about Computers." MiT (Media in Transition) 4: The Work of Stories. MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2005.
14. "The Nonstandard Web." Media Studies Lecture Series, University of Virginia, March 2004; Linguistics-Anthropology Seminar, University of Virginia. April 2004.
15. "Languages of the Indigenous Web." MLA Annual Convention, Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures session on Constructing Indigenous Consciousness in Colonizing Languages, New York, NY, December 2002.
16. "South Asian Linguistic Diversity and the World Wide Web." South Asian Literature Association Annual (SALA) Convention, New York, NY, December 2002.
17. "The Computational Object: A Poststructuralist Approach." ACH/ALLC 2001 (Association for Computers and the Humanities/Association for Linguistic and Literary Computing) Annual Conference, "Digital Media and Humanities Research," NYU, New York City, June 2001.
18. "Hierarchies, Evidentials, and the History of Constituency." WSCLA 6, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, March 2001.
19. "Metaphysical Realism and Cultural Studies: Reading Putnam through Sula." MLA Annual Convention, Special Session on the Philosophy of Hilary Putnam and Literary Theory. Toronto, December 1993.
20. "Feminism and Mental Representation: Deconstructing the Philosophy of Mind." Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy? Graduate Faculty Women in Philosophy Conference, New School for Social Research, October 1993.
21. "Heterotopia, Metafuturology: Race, Ideology and Displacement in Triton and Star Trek." Cut to the 21st Century: Fade to Black, University of Pennsylvania, Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture, Cultural Studies Series, Philadelphia, PA, April 1993. Invited paper.
22. "Theory, Essentialism, Naturalism: Queer Theory Meets Brain Science." Mapping the Boundaries of the Literary: Explorations in Cultural Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, October 1992.

• Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2010-present
• Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, 2003-10
• Teaching Assistantship, University of Pennsylvania, 1992-94
• Teaching Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1988-90
• Teaching Assistantship, University of Michigan, 1987

COURSES TAUGHT
Virginia Commonwealth University (2010- )

• Senior Seminar: Contemporary Litearture and Media (ENGL 490, Fall 2011)
• MATX Core: History of Media, Art, and Text (MATX 602, Fall 2011)
• Reading Today (ENGL 301, Spring 2011)
• Orality, Literacy, and the Digital (ENGL 661, Spring 2011)
• MATX Core: Production & Application Workshop (MATX 604, Spring 2011)

University of Virginia (2003-10)

• Experimentalism (MDST 3559, Spring 2010)
• Vernaculars (ENMC 4559/MDST 4559, Spring 2010)
• Literary and Critical Theory (PhD) (ENCR 8610, Fall 2009)
• Hard Science Fiction (MDST 3559/ENMC 3559, Fall 2009)
• Literary and Critical Theory (ENCR 861, Fall 2008)
• Cyberspace, Race, Ethnicity (MDST 412/ENMC 481H, Fall 2008)
• Vernaculars, Media, Texts (ENMC 352/MDST 352, Spring 2007)
• Media Studies Fourth-Year Seminar (MDST 401, Spring 2007)
• Computers and Languages (MDST 311, Spring 2006)
• Media Studies Fourth-Year Seminar (MDST 401, Spring 2006)
• Poststructuralism: Derrida and Spivak (ENCR 981-2, Fall 2005)
• Introduction to Digital Media Studies (MDST 110, Fall 2005)
• Media Studies Fourth-Year Seminar (MDST 401, Spring 2005)
• Textual Markup and the Material Book (MDST 510/ENCR 510, Spring 2005)
• Introduction to Digital Media Studies (MDST 110, Fall 2004)
• The Novel and Nonstandard Languages (ENMC 981, Fall 2004)
• Textuality, Language, and the History of Media (MDST 350, Spring 2004)
• Critical Theory and Digital Media (MDST 411, Spring 2004)
• Fictional Networks, Alternate Selves: Contemporary Literature, Science Fiction, and the Cultures of Technology (ENMC 481I, Fall 2003)
• Alternative Media Workshop (MDST 464C, Fall 2003)

University of Pennsylvania (1988-94)

• American Literature Survey (Teaching Assistant) (Spring 1994)
• American Literature After World War II (Teaching Assistant) (Spring 1993, Fall 1993)
• Modern American Literature (Teaching Assistant) (Fall 1992)
• Discovery and Exploration in the Western Tropics, 1560-1987 (Spring 1990)
• Ambiguity and Apocalypse: Themes and Theories in Postmodern Science Fiction (Fall 1989)
• Hawthorne, Poe, Melville and James (Spring 1989)
• Renaissance Lyric (Fall 1988)

• Digital Media and Culture, New Media  
• Contemporary US and Global Literature and Media
• Contemporary Vernacular Literature and Media
• Cultural Studies, Poststructuralist Theory
• Theories of Language, Computers and Language

• Visiting Fellow, Literature and New Media Working Group, Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University (Fall 2010)
• NEH Faculty Fellowship for The Cultural Logic of Computation (2007-08).
• Sesqui award (semester leave, Fall 2006). University of Virginia (2006-07).
• Co-PI on NEH/NSF grant for Cemaun Arapesh Digital Language Archive under Documenting Endangered Languages program (2005).
• Arts & Sciences Summer Grant for work on The Cultural Logic of Computation. University of Virginia (2005).
• Arts & Sciences Summer Grant for work on The Cultural Logic of Computation. University of Virginia (2004).

ACADEMIC SERVICE
University of Virginia

• Lower-Division Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences (AY 2008-09, AY 2009-10)
• Graduate Committee, English Department (AY 2006-07)
• Elected junior faculty member, English Department Steering Committee (AY 2004-05)
• Ad-Hoc Committee on Toolkit Evaluations (Spring 2005)
• Coordinator, English Department Theory Reading Group (AY 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10)
• Committee on College of Arts and Sciences BA in Computer Science (AY 2005-06)

National

• NEH Summer Fellowship Selection panel, Media Studies group (2010)
• Member, LSA Conversation on Language Documentation (2005-06)
• Elected to MLA Language Theory Division (2006-10 term)
• Elected to MLA Media Studies discussion group (2008-12 term)

RELEVANT NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

• Software product and UI designer, web-based financial products, IDD Information Services, then dba Tradeline Inc./Tradeline.com (subsquently acquired by Sungard Data Systems) (9/99-2/02).
• Project and UI design manager, Icon CMT Corp., (then a subsidiary of Qwest Corp., itself then acquired by CenturyLink Inc.), New York, NY (9/98-9/99)
• Client-server and web software product manager, financial software products and Barron's Online web version of print magazine, Investment Dealer's Digest, then dba IDD Information Services, then dba IDD, a subsidiary of Dow Jones, Inc., New York, NY (9/91 - 9/98)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• American Philosophical Association (APA), 1990-2001
• Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), 2001-03
• Linguistic Society of America (LSA), 1997-
• Modern Language Association (MLA), 1988-
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), 2006-08

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