Curriculum Vitae
Current Position
University of Maryland, College Park
Assistant Professor of American Studies and the Program in Digital Cultures and Creativity
Academic Degrees
Ph.D.,University of California, Los Angeles
Digital Media and Performance Studies, June 2006
Dissertation Title: “Pixilated Performances”
Committee: N. Katherine Hayles, Mark Poster, Haiping Yan, and Sue-Ellen Case (advisor)
Master of Arts, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California
English, June 2002
Committee: Constance Jordan, Marc Redfield, and Paul Mann
Bachelor of Arts, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California
Communication Studies and English, June 2000
Committee: Marilyn McEntyre and Greg Spencer
Publications
Book Manuscript
Mobile Interface Theory: Embodiment in Locative Art, Gaming, and Pervasive Computing Culture. New York: Routledge, 2011.
Book Chapters
“The Virtual Artaud: Computer Virus as Performance Art.” TechKnowledgies: New Imaginaries in the Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences. Edited by Mary Valentis. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.
“Gertrude Stein in QuickTime: Documenting Performance in the Digital Age.” Complex Worlds: Digital Culture, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication. Eds. A. P. Lamberti and Anne R. Richards. Amityville, NY: Baywood, 2010. (Forthcoming)
"Information Cartography: Visualizations of Internet Spatiality and Information Flows." Composing (Media) = Composing (Embodiment). Kristin L. Arola and Anne Frances Wysocki, eds. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2011. (Accepted)
Journal Articles
“Mapping the Digital Empire: Google Earth and the Process of Postmodern Cartography.” New Media & Society 12.5 (2010).
“Hypermediating the Game Interface: The Alienation Effect and Violent Videogames.” Communication Quarterly 58.1 (2010), 96-109.
“Surveillance Spectacles: The Big Art Group’s Flicker and the Screened Body in Performance.” Contemporary Theatre Review 19.2 (2009), 181-194.
Online Journal Articles (Peer Reviewed)
“Navigation Simulation: Gaming Across the Topology of the Screen.” Extensions: The Online Journal of Embodiment and Technology 3.1 (2007).
“Digital Performance and the HyperMedia Studio: An Interview with Jeff Burke.” Extensions: The Online Journal of Embodiment and Technology 3.1 (2007).
“The Virtual Artaud: Computer Virus as Performance Art.” Extensions: The Online Journal of Embodiment and Technology 2.1: (Spring 2005), 65-73.
“Streaming the Performer’s Body: An Interview with Downstream.” Extensions: The Online Journal of Embodiment and Technology 2.1: (Spring 2005), 90-104.
Conference Proceedings:
“Locative Life: Geocaching, Mobile Gaming, and Embodiment.” Proceedings of the Digital Arts and Culture Conference, 2009.
Book Reviews
"The Transformation of Everyday Life through Pervasive Play" Book Review of Pervasive Games: Theory and Design. Eds. Markus Montola, Jaakko Sternos, and Annika Waern (Burrlington, Mass.: Morgan Kaufmann, 2009) in Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds 2.2 (2010) (Forthcoming).
“Digital Performance.” Book review of Digital Performance by Steve Dixon. (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press) in Contemporary Theatre Review 17.4 (November 2007), 583-585.
“Upstaged: Making Theatre in the Media Age.” Book review of Weber, Anne Nicholson. Upstaged: Making Theatre in the Media Age. (New York: Theatre Arts Books, 2005) in TDR: The Drama Review, 51.4 (Winter 2007), 177-178.
“Intermediality in Theatre and Performance.” Book review of Intermediality in Theatre and Performance. Eds. Freda Chapple and Chiel Kattenbelt.. (Amsterdam: Rodolpi Press, 2006) in Theatre Journal, 59.2 (May 2007), 329-330.
“Virtual Theaters.” Book review of Giannachi, Gabriella. Virtual Theaters: An Introduction. (New York: Routledge, 2004) in Theatre Journal. 58:1 (May 2006), 364-365.
Conference Presentations
"Geolocation Meets Visualization: Mapping the Social Web." National Communication Association Conference, San Francisco, November 2010.
“Locative Life: Geocaching, Mobile Gaming, and Embodiment.” Digital Arts and Culture Conference, University of California, Irvine, December 2009. (Plenary Talk)
“Locative Life: Geocaching, Mobile Gaming, and Embodiment.” Digital Games Research Area Conference, London, England, September 2009.
“Performing Social Narrative Across Locative Media.” Association for Theater in Higher Education Conference, New York, August 2009.
“Information Cartography: Visualizations of Internet Spatiality and Information Flows.” Media in Transition Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April, 2009.
“The Interface of Everyday Life: Mobile Technologies and the Embodied Space of the Internet.” Invited speaker. Emerging Trends in the Digital Humanities Colloquium. Washington State University, March 2009.
“Mapping the Digital Empire: Google Earth and the Process of Postmodern Cartography.” Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture Conference, Oxford University, England, July 2008.
“Surveillance Spectacles: The Big Art Group’s Flicker and the Screened Body in Perfomance.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Denver, July 2008.
“Hypermediating the Game Interface: Grand Theft Auto and the Alienation Effect.” Electronic Literature Organization, Vancouver, Washington, May 2008.
“Hypermediating the Game Interface: Grand Theft Auto and the Alienation Effect.” Popular Culture Association, San Francisco, March 2008.
Panel Chair: “Staging Race, Staging Place: From the Local to the Diasporic.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, New Orleans, July 2007.
“Surveillance Spectacles: The Big Art Group’s Flicker and the Screened Body in Perfomance.” (dis)junctions: Malappropriation Nation, University of California, Riverside, April, 2007.
“Improvisation/Interface: Subverting Script and Code in Digital Performance.” Comparative Drama Conference, Loyola Marymount University, April, 2006.
“Improvisation/Interface: Subverting Script and Code in Digital Performance.” American Society for Theatre Research, Toronto, November 2005.
“The Virtual Artaud: Computer Virus as Performance Art.” Invited to present on the competitive panel Fresh Print: Emerging Scholars, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, San Francisco, July 2005.
“The Virtual Artaud: Computer Virus as Performance Art.” Center for Humanities and TechnoScience, SUNY Albany, April 2005.
“Gertrude Stein in QuickTime: The Wooster Group’s Interactive CD-ROM Performance.” Comparative Drama Conference, California State University, Northridge, April 2005.
“The Spectacle of Surveillance: Performing the Space of the Panoptic.” American Society for Theater Research, Las Vegas, November 2004.
“My (Virtual) Body, My (Virtual) Self: Visualizing Subjectivity in Online Theater.” (dis)junctions: Romancing Heteroglossia, University of California, Riverside, April 2004.
“My (Virtual) Body, My (Virtual) Self: Visualizing Subjectivity in Online Theater.” BYOB: The First Annual Call for Bodies, California State University, San Marcos, April 2004.
“Hypertextuality and the Break with Patriarchal Signification in Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker.” Thinking Gender, University of California, Los Angeles, March 2004.
“Gertrude Stein in QuickTime: The Wooster Group’s CD-ROM.” University of California Graduate Collegium in Theater Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, February 2004.
“The Document Becomes the Performance: The Reinscription of Authority in the Wooster Group’s Interactive CD-ROM Where Where There There Where.” American Society for Theater Research, Duke University, November 2003.
Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
"Embodiment and Space in the Digital Age" (Graduate Seminar) Fall 2010.
"Digital Diversity" Fall 2010
Assistant Professor, Digital Technology and Culture
Washington State University
"Digital Storytelling," Summer 2010
“Electronic Literature, Gaming, and Cyberculture,” (Graduate Course) Fall 2009.
“Embodiment and Space and the Digital Age,” (Graduate Course) Fall 2008.
“Advanced Multimedia Authoring,” Fall 2008.
“Usability and Interface Design,” Summer 2008/2009
“Multimedia Authoring,” Spring 2008/Spring 2009
“Graduate Research in Game Studies,” (Graduate Course) Spring 2008
“The Rhetorics of Surveillance Independent Study,” Spring 2008
“Digital Diversity,” Fall 2007
“Language, Text, and Technology,” Fall 2007/Spring 2009
Teaching Fellow, Department of Performance Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
“Deconstructing Theater,” Spring 2005
“Making Traditions,” Fall 2004
“20th-21st Century Performance,” Spring 2004/2003
Fellowships and Awards
College of Liberal Arts Faculty Travel Grant, Washington State University (2009-2010)
College of Liberal Arts Faculty Travel Grant, Washington State University (2008-2009)
College of Liberal Arts Faculty Travel Grant for International Travel, Washington State University (2007-2008)
Chancellor’s Fellowship for Dissertation Research, University of California, Los Angeles (2005-2006)
Thomas F. Marshall Travel Grant, American Society of Theatre Research (2005)
Aaron Curtis Taylor Memorial Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles (2004)
English Literature Fellowship, Claremont Graduate University (2000-2002)
Paul Vorman Memorial Scholarship, Westmont College (1995)
Research Experience
Research Assistant, Transliteracies Research Group, University of California, Santa Barbara
2005-2006
Chosen as one of 14 graduate students in the University of California system to assist Professor Alan Liu (English, UCSB) with the research clearinghouse for “Transliteracies: Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading.”
Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Theater, University of California, Los Angeles
Winter 2003/2005
Assisted Professor Sue-Ellen Case in the research for her book, Performing Science and the Virtual.
Scholarly Service
Departmental:
Director, Digital Technology and Culture Program, 2007-Present.
Advisor to Digital Technology and Culture students including the DTAC student club, internships, independent studies, and senior seminars, 2007-Present.
Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of English, Washington State University, 2008-2010.
Search Committee Member, English Department, Washington State University
English Assistant Professor Search, 2008-2009.
Reader: English Department Graduate Student Essay Awards, 2008.
Campus:
Degree and Curriculum Committee Co-Chair, Washington State University Master of Fine Arts Degree in Media Arts, 2007-2008.
Organizer, Tri-Cities Digital Consortium, 2007-2009.
Member: Visionary Subcommittee for the Liberal Arts, 2008-2009.
Member: Public Art Committee for WSU, 2008.
University:
Search Committee Co-Chair, Murrow School of Communication, Washington State University
Communication Assistant Professor Search, 2007-2008.
Search Committee Member, Fine Arts Department, Washington State University
Fine Arts Assistant Professor Search, 2007-2008.
Field of Study:
Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, 2009-2010.
Reviewer, Cultural Studies Area for Blackwell Publishing, 2009-2010.
Reviewer, International Journal of Arts and Technology, 2009.
Pre-Conference Organizer, Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE),
Performance Studies Focus Group, 2007/2008.
Co-Chair, Mixed-Media Working Group, Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), 2008.
Editor-in-Chief, Extensions: The Online Journal of Embodiment and Technology, Volume 3 (2006-2007). University of California, Los Angeles. Published through the Center for Performance Studies
Creative Works:
Creator, StoryMarker. iPhone app for location-based storytelling.
Video and Sound, What I Heard About Iraq. Multimedia Performance based on the play by Simon Levy, Washington State University, October 2-3, 2008.
Multimedia Designer, “The Politics of Embodiment.” Graphic and web design, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, July 2008.
Video and Editing, A Corpus UnConvention. Cinematography and editing of urban street performance by Corpus Delicti. Denver, CO, July 2008.
Multimedia Designer, Modern Volume Records. Video Production, Web Design, Graphic Design, and Identity Creation. Pasadena, CA, 2006-2007.
Digital Media Consultant, The Bloggers Project. Multimedia Performance and Instillation in collaboration with the Department of Theatre and the HyperMedia Studio, UCLA, Spring 2006.
Web Designer, Center for Performance Studies. UCLA, Spring 2006.
Dramaturg, Elizabeth, Almost by Chance a Woman. Play by Dario Fo. Ruby Theatre at the Complex, Hollywood, California, April 21-May 8, 2005.
Web Designer, Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies. Pitzer College, Spring 2002.
Web Designer, English Literature Department. Claremont Graduate University, Fall 2001.
Playwright, The Girlfriend Experience. Guernica Arts, Los Angeles, California, July 2002. Published through Guernica Arts Online.
Playwright, Shape to the Shadow Wilde. Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California, Spring 2000.
Professional Organizations
Society for Cinema & Media Studies
Electronic Literature Organization
American Society for Theatre Research
Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Popular Culture Association
References
Sue-Ellen Case (Professor, Department of Theater, University of California, Los Angeles)
E-mail: secase_at_tft.ucla.edu
N. Katherine Hayles (Professor, Department of Literature, Duke University)
E-mail: katherine.hayles_at_duke.edu
Mark Poster (Professor, Departments of History and Film, University of California, Irvine)
E-mail: poster_at_uci.edu