CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor (2003- )
Media Studies, English, and Linguistics
University of Virginia

EDUCATION

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

PUBLICATIONS
Books

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

Articles in Refereed Journals and Edited Collections

1. "Cultural Studies and the Discourse of New Media." In Paul Smith, ed., Renewing Cultural Studies (volume under review).
2. "Games Without Play." New Literary History (forthcoming).
3. "Minimalism Is Functionalism." Language Sciences (forthcoming).
4. "Computers and Cultural Studies." In Robert Kolker, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 508-526.
5. "The Trouble with Normal English." Politics and Culture 2008:1. Published version; local version.
6. "Representing Minority Languages and Cultures on the World Wide Web." In N. Louanna Furbee and Lenore A. Grenoble, eds., Language Documentation: Practice and Values. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (forthcoming).
7. "What Is Lost?" Flow 3:1 (September 2005). Published version; local version.
8. "The Interpretation of Nonconfigurationality." Language & Communication: An Interdisciplinary Journal 24:1 (January 2004). 1-22. Download article (PDF).
9. "Computation, Gender, and Human Thinking." differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 14:2 (Summer 2003). 27-48. Download article (PDF).
10. "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.
11. Daev. Gl=umläia,"Hiiperlexicoasemeopara[=tastrophism: Geo-graphist-insenstiorsme." Postmodern Culture 12:1 (September 2001). Published version (Project MUSE); local version.
12. "Toward a History of 'Language': Ong and Derrida." Oxford Literary Review 21 (1999). 73-90.
13. "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.
14. "Quine, Derrida, and the Question of Philosophy." The Philosophical Forum 30:3 (September 1999). 163-186. Download article (PDF).
15. "Quine's Ambivalence." Cultural Critique 38 (Winter 1997-98). 5-38. Download article (PDF).
16. "Rethinking Philosophy in the Third Wave of Feminism." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 12:3 (Summer 1997). 100-115.
17. "Hypercapital." Postmodern Culture 7:1 (September 1996). Published version (Project MUSE); local version; text-only version.
18. "Resisting 'The World': Philip K. Dick, Cultural Studies, and Metaphysical Realism." Science-Fiction Studies 23:1 (March 1996). 83-102.
19. "Black and White World: Race, Ideology, and Utopia in Triton and Star Trek." Cultural Critique 32 (Winter 1995-96). 75-96. Download article (PDF).
20. "Toward an Ethics of Cultural Acts: The Jamesian Dialectic in 'Broken Wings.'" The Henry James Review 15:2 (Spring 1994). 152-170.

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. 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).
2. ecoComputing. (2005-06). Director of project to create links between ecological and environmental thinking and computer capabilities. Project website.
3. 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. 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 article (PDF).
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Review of Artemis Alexiadou, Functional Structure in Nominals: Nominalization and Ergativity. LINGUIST List 13:1109 (Apr 22 2002). Published version.
5. Review of Jan Terje Faarlund, ed., Grammatical Relations in Change. LINGUIST List 12:3056 (Dec 6 2001). Published version.
6. 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.

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 Algonguian 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. "Languages of the Global South: The Cultural Politics of Linguistic Diversity." (Under consideration at Public Culture.)
2. "Naxi and the Net: 'Modernization' and Digital Culture in a Minority Frame" (with Mo Qian). To be delivered at 7th Chinese Internet Research Conference, Annenberg School of Communications, Univesrity of Pennsylvania, May 2009.
3. Standardization: The Open Question of Modernity. (In preparation.)

1. "Englishes of the Global South." ACLA 2009, American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, March 2009.
2. "Emerging Genres, 1707/2007." MLA Annual Convention, Eighteenth-Century Studies Division panel, Chicago, Dec 2007. YouTube video.
3. "Computers and the Cultural Politics of Language." Linguistics-Anthropology Seminar, University of Virginia, Nov 2007.
4. "Becoming-Encoded." MLA Annual Convention, Special session on Reading Code, Philadelphia, PA, Dec 2006.
5. "Minimalism; or, Noam Chomsky vs. Generative Grammar." Linguistics-Anthropology Seminar, University of Virginia, Mar 2006.
6. "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.
7. "Stories about Computers." MiT (Media in Transition) 4: The Work of Stories. MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2005.
8. "The Nonstandard Web." Media Studies Lecture Series, University of Virginia, March 2004; Linguistics-Anthropology Seminar, University of Virginia. April 2004.
9. "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.
10. "South Asian Linguistic Diversity and the World Wide Web." South Asian Literature Association Annual (SALA) Convention, New York, NY, December 2002.
11. "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.
12. "Hierarchies, Evidentials, and the History of Constituency." WSCLA 6, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, March 2001.
13. "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.
14. "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.
15. "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.
16. "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, University of Virginia, 2003-present
• Teaching Assistantship, University of Pennsylvania, 1992-94
• Teaching Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1988-90
• Teaching Assistantship, University of Michigan, 1987

• 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 Technologies, New Media
• Contemporary World Literature and Media
• Contemporary Vernacular Literature and Media
• Cultural Studies, Poststructuralism
• 20th Century American Literature
• Computers and Language
• Earliest Literature of the Colonization of the Americas
• Theories of Language, History of Language

• 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, CLAS (AY 2008-09)
• 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)
• Committee on CLAS BA in Computer Science (AY 2005-06)

National

• Member, LSA Conversation on Language Documentation (2005-06)
• Elected to MLA Language Theory Division (2006-09 term)
• Elected to MLA Media Studies discussion group (2008-12 term)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• American Philosophical Association (APA), 1990-2001
• Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), 2001-2003
• Linguistic Society of America (LSA), 1997-
• Modern Language Association (MLA), 1988-
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), 2006-08

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Last updated April 11, 2009.