C.V.
Current Position
University of Maryland, College Park
Assistant Professor of American Studies
Distinguished Faculty Fellow in the Digital Cultures and Creativity Program
Academic Degrees
Ph.D.,University of California, Los AngelesDigital Media and Performance Studies, June 2006
Dissertation Title: “Pixilated Performances”
Committee: N. Katherine Hayles, Mark Poster, Haiping Yan, and Sue-Ellen Case (advisor)
English, June 2002
Committee: Constance Jordan, Marc Redfield, and Paul Mann
Communication Studies and English, June 2000
Committee: Marilyn McEntyre and Greg Spencer
Publications
Books Authored
Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media. New York: Routledge, 2011. The Myth of the Disconnected Life: Stories of How Mobile Technologies Have Disrupted Culture (Proposal in Process)Books Edited
Digital Storytelling with Mobile Media: Locative Technologies and Narrative Practices. New York: Routledge. (Proposal Under Review).Journal Articles
Guest Editor and Introduction, “Social Transformations from the Mobile Internet.” Future Internet 3.6 (2011). (Forthcoming)
“Mobile Media Performances as Asynchronous Engagement.” International Journal of Screendance 2.1 (2011). (Forthcoming)
“Mapping the Digital Empire: Google Earth and the Process of Postmodern Cartography.” New Media & Society 12.6 (2010), 869-888.
“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.
“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.
Book Chapters
“Mapping the Digital Empire: Google Earth and the Process of Postmodern Cartography.” The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation. Ed. Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, and Chris Perkins. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
“Gertrude Stein in QuickTime: Documenting Performance in the Digital Age.” Complex Worlds: Digital Culture, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication. Ed. Adrienne Lamberti and Anne R. Richards. Amityville, NY: Baywood, 2011.
“The Virtual Artaud: Computer Virus as Performance Art.” TechKnowledgies: New Imaginaries in the Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences. Ed. Mary Valentis. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.
“Information Cartography: Visualizations of Internet Spatiality and Information Flows.” Composing (Media) = Composing (Embodiment). Ed. Kristin L. Arola and Anne Frances Wysocki. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2012. (Forthcoming)
“Historicizing Mobile Media: Locating Transformations in Embodied Space.” The Mobile Media Reader. Ed. Noah Arceneaux and Anandam Kavoori. New York: Peter Lang, 2012. (Forthcoming)
“Site-specificity, Pervasive Computing, and the Reading Interface.” Digital Storytelling with Mobile Media: Locative Technologies and Narrative Practices. Ed. Jason Farman. New York: Routledge. (Forthcoming)
“Flows of Locative Media: Tracing the Practice and Infrastructure of Location-Aware Technologies.” The Handbook of Mobilities. Ed. Mimi Sheller, Peter Adey, David Bissell, Kevin Hannam, and Peter Merriman. New York: Routledge, 2012. (Accepted)
“Media-Specificity and Classroom Engagement: Insights from Mobile Media Practices.” Digital Technology in the Literature Classroom: Theory and Practice. Ed. Tim Hetland and Jacob Hughes. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins. (Accepted)
“Mapping Virtual Communities: Cultural Imaginaries of the Diaspora and the Production of Crisis Maps.” The Cartographical Necessity of Exile. Ed. Karen Elizabeth Bishop. (Accepted)
“Storytelling and Locative Media.” Routledge Companion to Mobile Media. Ed. Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth. New York: Routledge, 2013. (Accepted)
Conference Proceedings:
“Locative Life: Geocaching, Mobile Gaming, and Embodiment.” Proceedings of the Digital Arts and Culture Conference, 2009.
Book Reviews
“Pervasive Games: Theory and Design.” Book Review of Pervasive Games. Eds. Markus Montola, Jaakko Sternos, and Annika Waern (Burrlington, Mass.: Morgan Kaufmann, 2009) in Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds 2.3(2010).
“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
“The Mobile Internet and Information Landscapes.” A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society, Oxford Internet Institute, September 2011.
“Embodiment in Mobile Media Performances.” Dance Technology and Circulations of the Social, MIT, April 2011.
“Locative Social Media, Alterity, and Obsolescence.” Mobilities in Motion, Philadelphia, March 2011.
“Mapping the Mobile Interface: Geolocation Meets Visualization.” National Communication Association, 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.
“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.
Invited Talks
“Teaching with Mobile Technologies.” Invited Speaker. Arts & Humanities Academic Technology, Faculty Talks. University of Maryland, College Park, December 2010.
“Embodying the Mobile Interface.” Invited Speaker. Critical Theory Colloquium. University of Maryland, College Park, October 2010.
“Mapping the Mobile Interface: Geolocation Meets Visualization.” Invited speaker. Digital Dialogues, Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities. University of Maryland, College Park, October 2010.
“Mapping the Digital Empire,” Invited speaker. Language, Texts & Technology Guest Lecture, Department of English. Washington State University, October 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.
Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies and the Program in Digital Cultures & Creativity“Materiality and Networked Society” (graduate) Fall 2011
“Mobile Media Culture” Fall 2011
“Embodiment and Space in the Digital Age” (graduate) Fall 2010
“Digital Diversity” (undergraduate) 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
Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, Digital Cultures and Creativity Program, University of Maryland, College Park (2011-2012)
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 Barbara2005-2006
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.”
Winter 2003/2005
Assisted Professor Sue-Ellen Case in the research for her book, Performing Science and the Virtual.
Scholarly Service
Departmental:Redesigned Website for the Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, 2011.
Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, 2010-2011.
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:Search Committee Member, Digital Cultures and Creativity Program, University of Maryland, College Park, Associate Director Position, 2011.
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.
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
Media Production:
Web Designer, Department of American Studies. University of Maryland, College Park, 2011.
Creator, StoryMarker. iPhone app for location-based storytelling, 2010.
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.
Web Designer, Extensions: The Online Journal of Embodiment and Technology, Volumes 2 and 3 (2005-2007). University of California, Los Angeles. Published through the Department of World Arts & Cultures and the Center for Performance Studies.
Web Designer, Center for Performance Studies. UCLA, Spring 2006.
Web Designer, Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies. Pitzer College, Spring 2002.
Web Designer, English Literature Department. Claremont Graduate University, Fall 2001.
News and Media Interviews
“Rio’s Shantytowns Shrink — On Google Maps, At Least.” Christian Science Monitor, April 28, 2011, http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2011/0427/Rio-s-shantytowns-shrink-on-Google-Maps-at-least
“Border dispute involves Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Google Maps.” Marketplace Tech Report, National Public Radio, November 19, 2010, http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/11/19/tech-report-central-american-border-dispute-involves/
“Google Makes Foray into TV.” Unwind Magazine, November 2010, http://unwindmag.com/Unwind!_Magazine/November2010/tv.1.html
“How did principal’s e-mail to parents become national news?” The Ridgewood News, May 7, 2010, http://www.northjersey.com/news/93047214_Message_delivered.html ?c=y&page=1
“Facebook time travel: Old friends new again.” Denver Post, June 2, 2009, http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12497694
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
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