CURRICULUM VITAE
Click to download a current PDF version of CV here (updated August 2022)
EDUCATION
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
PhD (expected 2023) in Rhetoric and Composition, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Dissertation: “Generations: Creative Computation, Community, and the Rhetorical Canon”
Committee: Daniel Anderson (advisor), Jordynn Jack, Aarthi Vadde, Candace Epps-Robertson, Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
BA (2016), cum laude English modified with Philosophy, minor in Ethics
Honors Thesis: “( ): Making Sense of Orthography”
Thesis Advisors: Alexandra Halasz, Aden Evens
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
2014, Visiting student, Honors program in Philosophy
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Digital Rhetoric, Computational Poetics, Rhetorical History and Theory, Critical Code Studies, Contemporary American Poetry, Digital Humanities, Public Humanities
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
“Intimate Extension in the Open Field,” The CEA Critic, vol. 83 no. 2, July 2021, pp. 187-194.“From Analog Shuffle to Digital Remix: Translating Robert Grenier’s Sentences,”electronic book review, December 2020.
“Telling Human Stories of Climate Change with ArcGIS Story Maps,” The Geography Teacher, vol. 17.4, November 2020, pp. 169-172.
“Automating Poiesis: Claiming Territory for Poems and Poets in Twitter’s Art Bots,” Textshop Experiments, vol. 7, May 2020.
Refereed Book Chapters
“Full Stack Ethos: The Computer-Generated Poem as Social Medium in Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's ‘@Tubman's_Rock’,” Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures, Amherst College Press, eds. Matthew Kilbane and Hannah Brooks-Motl. Forthcoming 2023.CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, INVITED TALKS, AND SEMINARS
Refereed Conference Presentations
“Building with Care: Creating a Values-Oriented Digital Community Archive,” Electronic Literature Organization panel, Modern Language Association Convention. San Francisco, CA. January 2023.Co-Chair, “Misreading the Surface: Reevaluating Our Post-critical Moment,” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Baltimore, MD. March 2022.
Discussion Leader, “How Has Artificial Intelligence Altered the Idea of Creativity?,” In Our Image: AI and the Humanities, National Humanities Center. Durham, NC (virtual), April 2021.
“Rethinking Poetic Labor for a Digital Public,” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Philadelphia, PA (virtual), March 2021.
“TranslatingSentences: The Work of the Writerly Reader’s Body Between the Analog and Digital,” Rhetoric Society of America. Portland, OR. May 2020. (Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
“Virtual Reality in Actual Classrooms,” Computers and Writing. Greenville, NC. May 2020. (Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
“Performing Digital Literacy: Low-Bridge, High-Benefit Approaches for Teachers, Administrators, and Writing Centers,” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Pittsburgh, PA. March 2019.
“Algorithms Performing Poetry: OuLiPo for the Digital Age,” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Digital Praxis Poster Session. Pittsburgh, PA. March 2019.
Invited Talks and Workshops
“Bringing Public Digital Humanities to the Writing Classroom” Workshop, Graduate Student Summer Virtual Residency, National Humanities Center. Durham, NC, July 2022.“Keeping Your Course Accessible” MPH Faculty Workshop, Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (virtual), March 2022.
“Iteration 7,” Sonnet 100 Collaborative Reading, Textshop Editions (virtual), May 2021.
“Teaching with ArcGIS in the College Composition Classroom,” Graduate Student Summer Residency, National Humanities Center. Durham, NC (virtual), July 2020.
Seminars, Institutes, and Working Groups
“Race, Social Justice and DH: Applied Theories and Methods,” Digital Humanities Summer Institute Online, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC (virtual), June 2022.Organizer, “Speculative Lessons/Just Futures: Creativity and Accessibility in Computational Poetics,” If, Then: Technology and Poetics Symposium (virtual), March 2022.
Critical Code Studies Working Group, HaCCS/University of Southern California (virtual), January-February 2022.
Digital Aesthetics and Media Theory Graduate Student Working Group, Kings College London and UNC-Chapel Hill (virtual), January 2022-present.
“Rhetoric, Culture, and Technology,” Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, Syracuse, NY (virtual), May 2021.
“Visual Rhetoric—Moving Bodies, Affective Transmission: Ancient, Early Modern, and Contemporary Perspectives,” Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, College Park, MD. June 2019
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
Fellowships
2022 Digital Dissertation Fellowship, Digital Innovation Lab, UNC-Chapel Hill2022 Richard Crawford Campbell, Jr., 1921 Postgraduate Fellowship, Dartmouth College
2019-2022 Lindemann Summer Fellowship, Department of English, UNC-Chapel Hill
2019 Digital Project Management Fellowship, Digital Innovation Lab, UNC-Chapel Hill
2019 NHC Graduate Student Summer Residency, National Humanities Center
Awards
2022 Krista Turner Award for Excellence in Student Support, UNC-Chapel Hill2022 Data, Culture, and Society Workshop Award, UNC-Chapel Hill
2021 KCL/UNC Joint Project Award Recipient, Kings College London/UNC-Chapel Hill
2021 Latino Studies Program Teaching Award, Department of English, UNC-Chapel Hill
2019-2022 Professional Development Award, Department of English, UNC-Chapel Hill
Grants
2021 ARPA Graduate Degree Completion Grant, Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill2021 Professional Development Grant, Association of Student Governments, UNC System
2020 Online Course Design Grant, Digital and Lifelong Learning, UNC-Chapel Hill
2020 Carolina COVID-19 Impact Program Grant, Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill
2019-2022 Travel Grant, Department of English, UNC-Chapel Hill
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor of Record
Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel HillDigital Literature (ENGL 137)
Writing for Business (ENGL 105i)
Writing in the Digital Humanities (ENGL 105i)
Introduction to Composition and Rhetoric (ENGL 105)
Accessibility in Instructional Design Lead
Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC-Chapel HillFall 2022 EPID 826, HBEH 746, MHCH 724, PUBH 748, SPHG 690, SPHG 702
Spring 2022 SPHG 701, SPHG 721, SPHG 722, ENVR 784
Fall 2021 HBEH 700, SPHG 711, SPHG 712, SPHG 713, HBEH 720
Teaching Assistant
National Humanities CenterGraduate Student Summer Virtual Residency
Teaching African American Studies Faculty Workshop
Responsible AI Curriculum Design Faculty Workshop
Graduate Student Winter Virtual Residency
UNC-Chapel Hill
Data, Culture, and Society Faculty Workshop
(more detailed teaching experience is in PDF version of the CV)
SELECTED ACADEMIC SERVICE
Executive Board, Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina
Reviewer, The CEA Critic
Founder and co-organizer with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, “If, Then: Technology and Poetics” monthly working group and workshop series, UNC-Chapel Hill, UMass Boston, and Northeastern University
Educational Programs Consultant (2021-present), Graduate Assistant (2019-21), National Humanities Center
Co-Organizer with Douglas Stark, “Digital Aesthetics: Critique, Creativity and Selfhood in Computational Culture,” Digital Culture and Society Programme and Carolina Digital Humanities, Kings College London and UNC-Chapel Hill
Programs Coordinator, Carolina Digital Humanities, UNC-Chapel Hill
Webmaster, CoLEAGS (Comp. Literature and English Association of Graduate Students)
Reviewer for Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student and Academic Program Support, Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Media Accessibility Associate, Digital Innovation Lab, UNC-Chapel Hill
Graduate Examiner for ENGL/PHIL 89, UNC-Chapel Hill
New Graduate Student Orientation Leader, Department of English, UNC-Chapel Hill
Departmental Communications Editor, Department of English, UNC-Chapel Hill
Graduate Admissions Panelist, Department of English, UNC-Chapel Hill
SELECTED PUBLISHING, EDITORIAL, AND PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE
Book Reviews Editor, Carolina Quarterly, Chapel Hill, NC
Arts Education and Programming Consultant, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Freelance Academic Copy Editor, Chapel Hill, NC
(projects include Inclusive Teaching by Viji Sathy and Kelly Hogan (WVU Press, 2022), Video Scholarship and Screen Composing by Dan Anderson (UMich Press, 2021), among others)
Freelance Writer and Editor, Next Big Idea Club, New York, NY
Lead Editor, 826NYC and 826DC, Brooklyn, NY and Washington, DC
Director of Audience and Business Development, Next Big Idea Club, New York, NY
Student Director of International Fellowships, Tucker Foundation, Hanover, NH
SELECTED ACCESSIBILITY AND ADVOCACY TRAINING
Digital Accessibility Liason, Gillings School of Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill
Equidox Training, Onix Networking Corp
Digital Accessibility in Course Design, Digital Accessibility Office, UNC-Chapel Hill
Document Remediation Training, Digital Accessibility Office, UNC-Chapel Hill
Applying the QM Rubric Certification, Quality Matters
WCAG 2.1 Workshop, Digital Accessibility Office, UNC-Chapel Hill
HAVEN Sexual Assault Prevention Training, UNC-Chapel Hill
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Rhetoric Society of America
Modern Language Association
Electronic Literature Organization
Northeast Modern Language Association
LANGUAGES
Spanish (professional proficiency)
Python (intermediate proficiency)
HTML/CSS (intermediate proficiency)