Curriculum Vitae
Updated: Summer 2021
| EDUCATION | |
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| 2015-2022 | University of Southern California; Los Angeles, CA; PhD, English Literature; Visual Studies Graduate Certificate (awarded 2018); Digital Media & Culture Graduate Certificate (awarded 2020). Dissertation: “The Punch Card Imagination: Authorship and Early Machine Programming”; Committee: Drs. Alice Gambrell (chair), Emily Anderson, Devin Griffiths, Margaret Russett, and Tara McPherson. Fields: Digital Authorship (Theory & New Media, Alice Gambrell); Closet Drama (18C Literary Form and Performance, Emily Anderson); Technological Frontier (20C Science Fiction & the American West, William Handley). |
| 2012-2014 | California State University, Long Beach; Long Beach, CA; MFA, Fiction. |
| 2002-2006 | University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; BA, English Literature. |
| FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS | |
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| 2021-2022 | Mellon-Council for European Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship |
| USC Endowed PhD Fellowship (declined) | |
| 2019-2021 | Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World Ph.D. Fellowship |
| 2019-2020 | Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship in the Humanities |
| Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine Fellowship | |
| Hagley Library Exploratory Research Grant | |
| USC Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Summer Research Grant | |
| USC Ralph and Jean Hovel Memorial Summer Travel Award | |
| 2018-2019 | USC Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Summer Research Grant |
| USC Graduate School Summer Research Grant | |
| 2015-2020 | USC Dornsife/Graduate School Fellowship |
| SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS | |
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| 202? | “Reading Note G: Ada Lovelace and the Secretarial Labor of Codework.” Issue: “Critical Code Studies.” Digital Humanities Quarterly (under review). |
| 2021 | “Nora Charles Goes to Rehab: Remaking Myrna Loy in The Best Years of Our Lives.” Celebrity Studies (forthcoming online Summer 2021, in print 2023). |
| 202? | “The Swiftian Loom: Gulliver’s Travels, Automation, and the Reckoning Author.” British Literature and the History of Technology, 1600-1830, edited by Kristin Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon (Bucknell University Press—Aperçus Series). In revision. |
| 2017 | “Bird Droppings: Necropastoral Futurity in Hitchcock’s The Birds.” Issue: “Filth.” Keep It Dirty vol. a., Punctum Books. Link. |
| 2016 | “The Big Guy with the Remote Control: Person of Interest and TV Preemption Fantasies.” Issue: “Panopticon.” The Lincoln Humanities Journal vol. 4, pgs. 47-58. |
| OTHER PUBLICATIONS | |
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| 2016 | “Starburst Galaxy,” The Offing. Link. |
| 2015 | Interviews for Los Angeles Review of Books: “Filmgoer Theory: An Interview with Eddie Muller on the Nowness of Noir”; “The Burden and the Beauty of Loneliness: An Interview with Leslie Parry.” Link. |
| 2014 | “Death of a Cubs Fan,” Cobalt Review (Baseball Issue), July; First Prize, for Fiction, Winning Writers’s “Sports Fiction & Essay Contest 2014” (as Zach Mankofsky). |
| CONFERENCE PAPERS PRESENTED | |
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| 2022 | “Single-Press Literature: Walter Scott, Machine Optimization, and the Production of Authenticity,” Romantic Epistemologies, MLA, Washington, D.C., January 2022 |
| 2021 | “Woven Instead of Printed: The Jacquard Loom and Modes of Literary Production,” PAMLA, Las Vegas, NV, November 2021 |
| 2019 | “A Literary History of Punch Card Systems,” Consortium for History of Science, Technology & Medicine (CHSTM), Philadelphia, PA, October 2019 |
| “Closet Code: Reconsidering the Theater Metaphor for Digital Interfaces,” Electronic Literature Organization (ELO), Cork, Ireland, July 2019 | |
| 2018 | “An Octopus of Data: Cyberspace and the Golden Spike,” American Literature Association (ALA) & Frank Norris Society, San Francisco, CA, May 2018 |
| 2017 | “Going, Going, Native: U.S. Empire, American Indians, and 19th-Century Baseball History,” Western Literature Association (WLA), Minneapolis, MN, October 2017 |
| “The Big Guy with the Remote Control: Person of Interest and Television Preemption Fantasies,” Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA), Riverside, CA, June 2017 | |
| “‘Words Are Things’: Closet Drama, Textual Authority, and New Media,” for UCSB Symposium on “Global Flows and Performance,” Santa Barbara, CA, May 2017 | |
| 2014 | “River as Chronotope in Eliot’s The Waste Land,” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Harrisburg, PA, April 2014; “Best Abstract Award” |
| TEACHING — INSTRUCTOR OF RECORD | |
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| 2020 | O’ Pioneers: Reconsidering Computer History through the Legacy of the American West (Digital Humanities x American Studies), USC |
| 2020 | L.A. Stories—Literature & Film of Los Angeles (Interdisciplinary Studies x American Studies), CSU Dominguez Hills |
| 2019 | Writing Seminar II (Composition: “Locker Room Talk: Sports, Gender, and Sexuality”), Thematic Option, USC |
| 2018 | Writing Seminar I (Composition), Thematic Option, USC |
| 2017 | Writing & Critical Reasoning – Thematic Approaches (Composition: “Globalization: Current Issues & Cross-Cultural Perspectives”), USC |
| 2013 | Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction, CSU Long Beach |
| TEACHING — OTHER | |
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| 2021 | Grader, Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry: Shakespeare & His Times (English), Rebecca Lemon, USC |
| 2021 | Grader, Anglo-American Law and Literature: Conceptions of Tyranny (English), Rebecca Lemon, USC |
| 2020 | Grader, Culture and Values: On Recognition (Thematic Option: Survey Course on Literature), Emily Anderson, USC |
| 2018 | Teaching Assistant, Shakespeare & His Times, Rebecca Lemon, USC |
| 2017 | Teaching Assistant, Los Angeles: City, Novel, Movie, Thomas Gustafson, USC |
| COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP | |
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| 2019-2021 | Co-convener, History of Technology Working Group, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM); Philadelphia, PA (Remote) |
| 2021 | Co-organizer, Anti-Racist Critical Code Studies Reading Group, Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab (January – February); Remote, via Discord. |
| 2021 | Correspondent, “Punch Card Imagination,” for the Hagley Library Research Blog. Link. |
| 2021 | Interviewee, “Hagley History Hangout,” Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society, Hagley Library. Link. |
| 2018 & 2020 | Co-organizer, Critical Codes Studies Working Group (three-week online event), Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab, USC |
| 2019 | Participant, “Destination Wedding 2070,” Meanwhile… Netprov (featured at the 2020 conference for the Electronic Literature Organization, Orlando, FL) |
| UNIVERSITY & DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE | |
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| 2020 | Panelist, “Finding Funding,” a panel event for PhD Academy, USC |
| 2016-2019 | Officer, Association of English Graduate Students (AEGS), USC |
| 2015-2017 | Contributing Editor, Gold Line Press, USC |
| 2013-2014 | Editor-in-Chief, Riprap Journal, California State University, Long Beach |
| RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | |
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| 2014-2016 | Managing Editor, The Offing Magazine. Link. |
| 2014-2016 | Noir & Mystery Editor, Los Angeles Review of Books. Link. |
| ADDITIONAL TRAINING | |
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| 2018-2020 | Participant, Humanities in a Digital World Summer Boot Camps; USC, Los Angeles, CA; Digital Rhetoric (Image and Video Remixing), Geographic Information Systems, Scalar publishing platform; software: Adobe Creative Suite, Camtasia 2.0, ArcGIS |
| 2017 | Participant, Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI); “Introduction to Electronic Literature in DH: Research and Practice,” June 5-9, 2017; Victoria, B.C., Canada |
| AFFILIATIONS |
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| USC Campus Affiliations: Visual Studies Research Institute (VSRI); Digital Humanities Program; Creative Code Collective; Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab; E-Lit Reading Group; Early-20th Century American Literature Reading Group; Association of English Graduate Students (AEGS). |
| Other Affiliations: Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS); Western Literature Association (WLA); American Literature Association (ALA); Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM); Science Fiction Research Assocition (SFRA); Electronic Literature Organization (ELO); Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). |
| LANGUAGES |
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| Russian (limited working), HTML, CSS, JavaScript. |
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