Helen J. Burgess


English Professor, electronic publisher, digital humanist, multimedia developer, critical maker, crafter.
Things I love: Mars. textiles. cyberpunk. feminist making. bots.

ORCID iD iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3831-6954

Contact


English Department, Tompkins Hall 237A, NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27695

Tidy Email: NCSU Business, Professional Research, Hyperrhiz Electric

Mastodon: @polyrhetor@botsin.space


About


Research Areas

Electronic literature, digital humanities, multimodal composition, physical computing, text/textiles.


Education

West Virginia University
PhD in English, 2003. Dissertation: “Highways of the Mind: the Haunting of the Superhighway from the World's Fair to the World Wide Web.” Chair: Robert Markley.

Victoria University Of Wellington (Well.)
MA(Dist.) in English Literature, 1997. Thesis: “A Problem of Coding: Electronic Subjectivity in Cybernetic Societies.” Chair: Brian Opie.
BA(Hons)(I) in English Literature, 1994.


Academic Appointments

North Carolina State University
Professor of English. Language, Writing & Rhetoric Track. 2021-.
Associate Professor of English. Language, Writing & Rhetoric Track. 2014-21.
Core Faculty, Communication, Rhetoric & Digital Media Ph.D. Program.
Affiliate Faculty, The NC State Visual Narrative Initiative.

University of Maryland Baltimore County
Associate Professor of English. Communication & Technology Track. 2013-14.
Assistant Professor of English. Communication & Technology Track. 2007-13.
Affiliate Faculty, Language, Literacy & Culture Ph.D. Program.

Washington State University Vancouver
Assistant Professor of English. Digital Technology & Culture Program. 2003-06.

West Virginia University
Assistant Coordinator, Center for Literary Computing. 1999-2000; also 2002.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English. 1997-2000.

Victoria University of Wellington
Tutor, English Language Institute. 1996-97.


Scholarship


Book

Burgess, Helen J. and Jeanne Hamming. Highways of the Mind. Multi-touch/iPad. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Publisher Page. Google Books.
Republished open-access as Futurama, Autogeddon: Highways of the Mind from the World's Fair to the End of the World, NC State University Libraries, 2022. doi:10.52750/493205. Project SIte.


Edited Collection

Boyle, Jen E. and Helen J Burgess (eds.). The Routledge Research Companion to Digital Medieval Literature. London: Routledge, 2018. Publisher Page. Visualization Website.


Scholarly Media

Burgess, Helen J. and Margaret Simon. Intimate Fields (Kits for Cultural History Vol. IV.) Digital Humanities Project. Victoria: Maker Lab in the Humanities, 2018. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3631844 Publisher Page. Documentation. TDHN Feature.

Burgess, Helen J. “Jekyll-journal: A lightweight Jekyll-based templating system for independent journals.” v2.0. Software. 2015-. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3630651. v2.0 available at Github repository.

Mitchell. Robert, Helen J. Burgess and Phillip Thurtle. Biofutures: Owning Body Parts and Information. DVD-ROM. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Nature review, 2009. Online port, 2012.

Markley, Robert, Harrison Higgs, Michelle Kendrick, and Helen Burgess. Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars. DVD-ROM. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. IF:Book. Live Traversal, 2018


Journal Special Issues

Burgess, Helen J. and Tony Alves (eds). “Creating community-led editorial management.” Commonplace no. 2.2 (2022). Full Issue.

Burgess, Helen J. and Roger Whitson (eds). “Critical Making and Executable Kits.” enculturation: a journal of rhetoric, writing and culture, no. 29 (2019). Full Issue.

Burgess, Helen J. and David Rieder (eds). “Kits, Plans, and Schematics.” Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures no. 13 (2015). doi:10.20415/hyp/013/. Full Issue.


Journal Articles

Burgess, Helen J. and Tony Alves. “Exploring the Nuances.” Commonplace no. 2.2 (2022). Full Text.

Burgess, Helen J. “Machine Dream Anthropocene: On Taking a Bot to the MLA.” Configurations Journal 29.1 (2021): 73-95. Full Text.

Burgess, Helen J. and Roger Whitson. “Introduction: Critical Making and Executable Kits.” enculturation: a journal of rhetoric, writing and culture, no. 29 (2019). Full Text.

Burgess, Helen J., Krystin Gollihue and Stacey Pigg. “The Fates of Things.” enculturation: a journal of rhetoric, writing and culture, no. 29 (2019). Full Text.

Simon, Margaret and Helen J. Burgess. “Intimate Fields: A Kit for E-Literature.” MatLit - Materialities of Literature 6.2 (2018). 203-216. Full Text.

Burgess, Helen J. “Publish All the Things: the life (and death) of electronic literature.” Journal of Electronic Publishing 21.1 (2018). Full Text.

Burgess, Helen J. “Love Notes and Intimate Circuits.” Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures no. 13 (2015). doi:10.20415/hyp/013.m02. Full Text.

Burgess, Helen J and Jeanne Hamming. “New Media in the Academy: Labor and the Production of Knowledge in Scholarly Multimedia.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 5.3 (2011). Full Text.

Burgess, Helen J. “‘Road of Giants’: Nostalgia and the Ruins of the Superhighway in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Three Californias”. Science Fiction Studies 33.2 (2006): 275-290. Full Text.

Burgess, Helen J. “Futurama, Autogeddon: Imagining the Superhighway from Bel Geddes to Ballard.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 8 (2004). Full Text.

Burgess, Helen J. “The Ghost in the Mechanism: Virtual Bodies, Mechanical Ghosts and Crash Test Dummies.” West Coast Line 36.1 (2002): 118-129. Full Text.

Burgess, Helen J. “Mapping Bodies, Mapping Subjects: Missing the Mind’s Eye from the X-Ray to the Human Genome.” Post Identity 3.2 (2002): 87-104. Full Text.

Burgess, Helen J. “Looking Back on Virtuality: the Strange Corporeographies of Cyberspace.” Spectator: The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism 21.1 (2001): 71-81. Full Text.


Book Chapters

Burgess, Helen J. and Travis Harrington. “The Sound of Type: Multimodal Synaesthesia.” In Kyle Stedman, Courtney Danforth and Michael Faris (eds.), Amplifying Soundwriting: Theory and Practice in Rhetoric and Writing. WAC Clearinghouse, 2022. 173-182. Full Text.

Burgess, Helen J. “The Voice of the Polyrhetor: Physical Computing and the (e-)Literature of Things.” In Dene Grigar and James O’Sullivan (eds.), Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities. Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021. 216-226. Full Text.

Maher, Jennifer Helene, Helen J. Burgess and Timothy Menzies. “Good Computing with Big Data.” In John Jones and Lavinia Hirsu (eds.), Rhetorical Machines. University of Alabama Press, 2019. 190-211. Full Text.

Boyle, Jen E. and Helen J. Burgess, “Resistance in the Materials.“ In Jen E. Boyle and Helen J Burgess (eds.), The Routledge Research Companion to Digital Medieval Literature. London: Routledge, 2018. 1-5. Full Text.

Swiss, Thomas and Helen J. Burgess. “Collaborative New Media Poetry: Mixed and Remixed.” In The Handbook of Participatory Cultures, eds. Aaron Delwiche and Jennifer Henderson. Routledge, 2012. 73-81. Full Text.

Burgess, Helen J. “<?php>: ‘Invisible’ Code and the Mystique of Web Writing.” In From A to <A>: Keywords in HTML and Writing, eds. Bradley Dilger and Jeff Rice. 2010: University of Minnesota Press. 167-185. Full Text.

Burgess, Helen J. “Nature without Labor’: Virgin Queen and Virgin Land in Sir Walter Ralegh’s The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana.” Goddesses and Queens: The Iconography of Elizabeth I, eds. Lisa Hopkins and Annaliese Connoly. Manchester University Press, 2007. 101-114. Full Text.

Burgess, Helen J., Robert Markley and Jeanne Hamming. “The Dialogics of New Media: Video, Visualization, and Narrative in Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars.” In Eloquent Images: Writing Visually in New Media, eds. Michelle Kendrick and Mary Hocks. MIT Press, 2003. 61-85. Full Text.


Reviews, Editorial Statements

Burgess, Helen J. Review of Michael Faris, eds. Reprogrammable Rhetoric. Rhetoric Review, forthcoming 2024.

Issues. “Shaping Our Genetic Futures.” Issues in Science and Technology 36, no. 2 (Winter 2020): 96.

Burgess, Helen J. “Data Visualization.” Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures 13 (2015). Full Text.

Burgess, Helen J. “Electronic Literature Organization Collection Vol. 1.” (review). SFRA Review 283 (2008): 15-16. Full Text.

Burgess, Helen J. Editorial Introductions. “Move.” Hyperrhiz 5 (2008) Full Text.; “e-Lit.” Hyperrhiz 4 (2007) Full Text.; “SpaceWorks.” Hyperrhiz 3 (2007) Full Text.; “Video.” Hyperrhiz 2 (2006) Full Text.; “Introduction/Commentary” (with Jason Nelson). Hyperrhiz 1 (2005) Full Text..

Burgess, Helen J. ”Virtual Reality and Artificial Life,” “Information Theory,” “Satire and Humor in Literature and Science,” “Industry,” “George Orwell,” “Colonialism,” “Writing Across the Curriculum.” In The Encyclopedia of Literature and Science, ed. Pam Gossin. New York: Garland Press, 2003.


Creative Artistry


Screen-based Creative Works

Burgess, Helen J. “Kai-Awase: a shell game.” In Lara Farina and Katherine Richards (eds.), The Middle Shore. Raleigh and Baltimore: Hyperrhiz Electric, 2018. doi:10.20415/elec/v1.4. Game.

Burgess, Helen J. “Tasty Gougère.” Electronic Literature Organization Collection Vol. 3. Electronic Literature Organization, 2016. URL.


Artistic Installations

Burgess, Helen J. And Margaret Simon. “Intimate Fields.” Juried Installation. NFC, Arduino, lasercut birch, thermal printer, silk, linen. Maus Habitos Gallery, Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Festival, Porto Portugal, July 18-22 2017. Narrabase Review. ELMCIP entry.

Burgess, Helen J. and Craig Saper. “Loving-Together with Roland's Bots.” Juried Installation. Thermal printers, Raspberry Pi, Python, Twitter. Electronic Literature Organization Conference, Victoria BC, June 10-13 2016. Exhibit description.

Burgess, Helen J. “MashBOT.” Installation. Thermal printer, Arduino, PHP. BABEL Working Group 4th Biennial Meeting. Toronto, October 2015. Kits, Plans, Schematics Exhibit. Rutgers University-Camden Digital Studies Center, October-December 2015. Slideshow.

“Citation Station (Installation).” Installation. Thermal printer, Raspberry Pi, Python, Twitter. NCSU “Hybrid Play” CRDM Symposium, March 26-27, 2018. Twitter.


Artistic Performances

“Clotho (The Fates of Things).” With Stacey Pigg and Krystin Gollihue. R-CADE Symposium, Rutgers University-Camden Digital Studies Center, April 21 2017. Video of performance. Twitter.

“Red Planet Live Traversal.” Electronic Literature Lab, Washington State University-Vancouver/YouTube livestream, Feb. 13, 2018. URL.

“Anna, Autopoietic.” ELO Readings & Performances at the MLA, University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA, Jan. 5 2017. URL.


Artist Statements

Burgess, Helen J. “Shell Games: Randomness, Computation, and Walking in the Archive.” In Lara Farina and Katherine Richards (eds.), The Middle Shore. Raleigh and Baltimore: Hyperrhiz Electric, 2018. DOI:10.20415/elec/v1.4. Full Text.

Burgess, Helen J. “MashBOT.” Artist Statement. In Jentery Sayers, Ed. Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities. U. Minnesota Press, 2017. Full Text.


Presentations


Conference and Workshop Presentations

“Empty your pockets: imaginal discs and the processes of insect rebirth.” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Tempe, AZ, Oct. 26-30, 2023.

“Intimate Fields.” Poster. Folger Insititute Virtual Weekend Seminar, “Out of the Archives: Digital Projects as Early Modern Research Objects.” Raleigh, NC, March 10-12 2022.

“Silkworms, Spindles and the Strange Stranger.” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Irvine, CA, Nov. 7-9, 2019.

“Stitching Styles and Pulling Threads in Electronic Literature.” Electronic Literature Organization Conference, Cork, Ireland, July 15-17, 2019.

“Intimate Fields.” Printable Pedagogy and 3D Theses (panel). Modern Language Association Convention, New York, NY, Jan. 5-7, 2018.

“Three of a Kind (a triptych for trying times).” The Hand You're Dealt (panel). Babel Working Group 5th Biennial Meeting. Reno, NV, Oct. 26-29, 2017.

“A Kit for e- Literature.” With Margaret Simon. Electronic Literature Organization Conference, Porto Portugal, July 19-22 2017.

“Machine Dream Anthropocene.” With Anna Coluthon. Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 2017.

“That's Not How Scholarship Works: Exploring the Process of Multimodal Critical Making.” Roundtable Panelist. Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 2017.

“Digital Creativity: Archiving Experimental Digital (Literary) Media in Journals, Collections, and Libraries.” Roundtable Panelist. Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2016.

“Looking for a Home: Publishing Media Objects.” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, Houston, TX, Nov. 2015.

“Mash Notes.” Panel Organizer. BABEL Working Group 4th Biennial Meeting. Toronto, October 2015.

“Kai-Awase | A Shell Game.” BABEL Working Group 3rd Biennial Meeting. Santa Barbara, October 2014.

“Fourteen Recipes for a Sonnet.” Electronic Literature Organization Conference, Milwaukee WI, June 2014.

“Another kind of ‘e-’ : Physical Computing and the Exploded Book.” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, Milwaukee, WI, Nov. 2012.

“Innovation in the Library, UMBC: From Digital Depository to e-Publishers.“ With Craig Saper and Michelle Flinchbaugh. ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Washington, D.C., June 2012.

“How to Read an Electric Poem.” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2009.

“Futurama Autogeddon.” Session on Digital Media, MLA/ADE Summer Seminar East, Morgantown, WV, Jun. 2008.

“re_critique.” Codework: Exploring Relations Between Creative Writing Practices and Software Engineering. NSF Symposium. Morgantown, WV, Apr. 2008.

“Steal This Multimedia: Information Ownership and the Anxiety of Genre.” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, Portland, ME, Nov. 2007.

“Selling the Superhighways: A Future History.” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, New York, NY, Nov. 2006. With Jeanne Hamming, Centenary College of Louisiana.

“Show Me Your BIOS: Technology, Biology and Open Source Media.” BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media Symposium. Morgantown, WV, Sept. 2006.

“Whatever Happened to my MOO?” Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Chicago, IL, Apr. 2006.

“Intimate Circuits.” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, Chicago, IL, Nov. 2005.

“Eliza, Travesty and the Man in the Elevator.” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, Chicago, IL, Nov. 2005.

“New Media in the Academy.” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, Duke University, NC, Nov. 2004.

“Imagining the Future, from the World’s Fair to the Design for Dreaming.” Fourth Biennial Preserving the Historic Road in America Conference, Portland, OR, Apr. 2004.

“Urban Spaces, Highway Spaces: Narrating the Superhighway.” Society for Literature and Science Conference, Austin, TX, Nov. 2003.

“Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars: Interactive DVD-Rom Technology.” With Robert Markley, Michelle Kendrick, Jeanne Hamming. Mars Society Fourth International Convention, Stanford, CA, Aug. 2001.

“Legible Bodies: Reading Synners and Cyborgs.” Society for Literature and Science Conference, Gainesville, FL, Nov. 1998.

“Queers in Space: Borg Fantasy and the Limitations of Slash.” Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Conference, Morgantown, WV, 1998.

“Mars: A Scientific and Cultural History.” The Mars Society Convention, Bolder, CO, Aug. 1998, and the Society for Literature and Science, Gainesville, FL, Nov. 1998. With Robert Markley, Michelle Kendrick and Catherine Gouge.


Institutional Presentations & Invited Talks

“Loops and flows: spinning worms and digital rhythms.” Invited speaker, digital humanities speaker series. California State University Chico, Dec. 7, 2022.

“Citational Bias Awareness: a graduate level intervention into citational bias as an antiracist pedagogy.” Panel presenter, English Department diversity mini-grant program report. NC State University, Nov. 4, 2021.

“Assembling Anna.” CRDM Faculty Research Panel, NC State University, Apr. 21, 2021.

“Spit & Spin: a response to Paul Vanouse’s The America Project.” Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology. Genetic Engineering and Society Symposium, NCSU, Oct. 18, 2019.

“A Repo of One’s Own: crafting repositories as sites of publication.” Futuristic Publishing Forms for Digital and Hybrid Scholarship. (Panelist). Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, Mar. 26, 2019.

“Rhetoric, Riddles and the Strange Stranger.” NCSU AEGS Conference Keynote Speaker, Mar. 23, 2019.

“Machine Translation & Poetry at Electric Press: From Text to Code to Algorithm to Text.” Joint Presentation with Craig Saper. Digital Humanities & Translation Working Group at the Dresher Center for the Humanities, University of Maryland Baltimore County, May 2016.

“An e-Literature of Things: Physical Computing and the Voice of the Polyrhetor.” CRDM Symposium, NCSU, March 19 2016.

“Coffee & Viz—Dr. Julie Mell and Dr. Helen Burgess.” D.H. Hill Library Coffee & Viz Series, NCSU, Aug. 21 2015.

“Orphan, Bastard, Oubliette / Rinse, Reveal, Repeat, Forget.” AEGS Conference Keynote Roundtable, NCSU, March. 2015.

“The Problem with Print: publishing born digital scholarship.” UMBC Friends of the Library & Gallery Event, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Nov. 2013.

“Teaching in the Digital Age Part II: Working and Learning with Media in New Ways.” Faculty Development Center workshop, University of Maryland Baltimore County, March 2012.

“Promotion and tenure at different institutions.” (Panelist). Preparing Future Faculty, West Virginia University, May 11, 2011.

“Imagining the Future.” Smithsonian/Museum on Main Street planning advisory meeting, Seattle, WA, Jun. 2003.

“Red Planet: DVD Authoring.” West Virginia University Technology and Computing Fair, Morgantown, WV, 2002.

“Doing Multimedia on Mars.” English Department Graduate Student Colloquium, Morgantown, WV, Mar. 2000.

“AppalachiaMOO Carnival.” Organizer, designer and host of an online carnival to premiere West Virginia University’s graphical MOO. Mar. 2000, online.

“Multimedia on Mars: A DVD Project on Mars Exploration.” West Virginia Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV, Nov. 1999. With Jeanne Hamming.

“Mars: Interactive Technology and Interdisciplinary Education.” West Virginia University Research Horizons Poster Session, Morgantown, WV, Sep. 1999.

“The Strange Corporeographies of Cyberspace.” English Department Graduate Student Colloquium, Morgantown, WV, 1999.

“Missing the Mind’s Eye: the Cultural Anxiety of the X-Ray.” English Department Graduate Student Colloquium Morgantown, WV, 1998. Panelist in keynote roundtable discussion.


Professional Activities


Editorial

Editor. Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures. Electronic journal. ISSN 1555-9351. URL.

Coeditor. Hyperrhiz Electric. Open Access digital press and monograph series in conjunction with Punctum Books. URL.

Technical Editor & Editorial Board. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University. Electronic journal. ISSN 1555-9998. URL.

Editorial Board. thresholds: a digital journal for criticism in the spaces between, chief eds. Fran McDonald and Whitney Trettien. URL.

Series Coeditor. Electronic Literature Series, Bloomsbury Academic. 2017-.

Editorial Board. Computing Literature Series, WVU/Laboratoire Paragraph Universite Paris VIII - Vincennes Saint-Denis. 2011-17.

Series Coeditor. Mariner 10 Multimedia Series, University of Pennsylvania Press. 2000-.

Editorial Assistant. The Series on Science and Culture, University of Oklahoma Press, 1997-2000.


Service to Professional Organizations

Literary Advisory Board. Electronic Literature Association, 2022-.
Board of Directors. Electronic Literature Organization, 2015-21.
Electronic Literature Directory Standing Cttee. Electronic Literature Organization 2015-.
Visualizing Digital Scholarship/Immersive Scholar Advisory Panel. NCSU Libraries, 2017-2020.


Granting Agency Review Panels

Multidisciplinary Assessment Cttee. Canada Foundation for Innovation, 2017, 2020.
Digital Humanities Advancement Program. NEH Office for Digital Humanities, 2017.
NEH Digital Humanities Startup Program, 2013.


External Personnel Review

Candidate for Promotion and Tenure, University of Central Florida, 2024.
Candidate for Promotion, Univesity of Illinois, 2024.
Candidate for Promotion, University of Kentucky, 2023.
Candidate for Promotion & Tenure, University of Central Florida, 2023.
Candidate for Promotion, University of Central Florida, 2022.
Candidate for Promotion & Tenure, Washington State University, 2020.
Candidate for Promotion & Tenure, Drew University, 2019.
Candidate for Promotion, Centenary College of Louisiana, 2016.
Candidate for Promotion, University of Sydney, 2016.
Candidate for Promotion & Tenure, Penn State University, 2014.


Publication Peer Review

Article Peer Review, MATLIT: Materialities of Literature, 2023.
Article Peer Review, Media Theory, 2020.
Article Peer Review, Amodern Journal, 2019.
Manuscript Peer Reviewer, Anvil Academic, 2013.
Manuscript Peer Reviewer, Routledge. 2013.


Conference Peer Review

Reviewer, ACM Hypertext Conference 2024.

Reviewer, Conference Program Committee. Electronic Literature Org Conference, 2021.
Reviewer, Scientific Committee. Electronic Literature Org Conference 2016, 2017, 2023.
Reviewer, IEEE ProComm, 2015, 2016.


Consulting Scholar

Contracted to Humanities Washington as a consultant for the Smithsonian Museum traveling exhibition, “Yesterday’s Tomorrows,” 2003-2005.


Grants & Fellowships

English Department Anti-Racist Pedagogy Grant. 2021. $1000 awarded to revise curriculum for diversity and anti-racism.

NCSU Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity Mini-Grant. 2017. $3,000 awarded to Helen Burgess and Krystin Gollihue for project entitled "Diversify Your Booklist: Developing Inclusive Citation Practices at NCSU." Final Report.

NCSU Summer Research funding. 2015. $5000 summer research funding to develop infrastructure for "Jekyll-journal: A lightweight Jekyll-based templating system for independent journals." Prospectus. Project repository.

CAHSS Research Fellowship. 2011. Spring 2011 research leave awarded by the UMBC College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences to support development of project Futurama, Autogeddon: Highways of the Mind from the World‘s Fair to the World Wide Web.

CAHSS Summer Faculty Fellowship. 2008. $6000 awarded to conduct research and travel for project digital/critical: New Media Scholarship in the Humanities.

Kaufmann/Faculty Innovation Grant. 2008. $2,000 awarded by the Alex Brown Center for Entrepreneurship for development of Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures infrastructure at UMBC.

Education Enhancement Grant. 2005. $38,000 awarded by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center to authors (PI: Rob Mitchell) to support development of interdisciplinary DVD-Rom entitled “Reimagining Biocommerce: Owning Body Parts and Information.”


Honors & Awards

Finalist, Graduate School Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award. NC State University, 2023.

Honorable Mention, Intimate Fields. Danish Public Library Prize for Electronic Literature, Roskilde Centralbibliotek, 2019.

Nominee, Outstanding Faculty Award. Chancellor’s Creating Community Awards, NC State University, 2018.

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations International Consortium Innovative ETD Award, 2013. URL.

Electronic Dissertation grant, West Virginia University, Summer 2002. (to develop enhanced multimedia version of dissertation).

Award for Outstanding Research, Department of English, West Virginia University, April 2002.

Stephen F. Crocker Dissertation Fellowship, West Virginia University, 2001-2002.

Award for Exemplary Service, Center for Literary Computing, West Virginia University, 2000.

Meritorious Graduate Student Tuition Waiver, West Virginia University, 2000-2001.

Jackson Family Doctoral Fellowship, West Virginia University, 1997-2000.


Teaching


North Carolina State University

Designing Web Communication (ENG 317). 2015, 2017.
Visual Literacy and Multimodal Composition (ENG 395). 2014.
Writing Theory and the Writing Process (ENG 422). 2015-16, 2018, 2020, 2023-24.
Analyzing Style (English 426). 2015, 2017, 2020.
Rhetoric and Technology (ENG 515/798). FA23.
Studies in Film – New Media, Old Media, Transmedia (ENG 585/798). 2023.
Multimodal Composition and Critical Making (ENG 587/798). 2016.
Theories and Methods in Media Studies (ENG 587/798). 2020.
Masters Supervised Teaching (ENG 685). 2020.
Rhetoric and Digital Media (CRD 702). 2018-19, 2022.
Scholarly Paths in Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Research (CRD 790). 2016, 2018, 2021, 2024.
Colloquium in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (CRD 809). 2018.
Directed Reading (ENG 810). 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023.
Supervised Teaching (CRD 885). 2017, 2019, 2020.


University of Maryland Baltimore County

Texts and Contexts (ENGL 300). 2009-2013.
Theories of Communication and Technology (ENGL 324). 2008-2013.
New Media and Digital Literacies (ENGL 385). 2009-2012.
Multimedia Authoring (EMGL 387). 2007-2010, 2013-2014.
Seminar: Visual Literacy (ENGL 442). 2008-2014.
Seminar: The Culture of the Copy (ENGL 493). 2007 and 2009.


Washington State University-Vancouver

Computers In English (ENGL 300). 2006.
Multimedia Authoring (ENGL/DTC 355). 2003-2006.
Usability and Interface Design (ENGL/DTC 478). 2003-2005.
New Communications Technologies (COM 420). 2003-2004.
Digital Diversity (DTC/AmSt 475). 2004.
Web Scripting (ENGL 499). 2005-2006.


West Virginia University

First Year Composition (English 1). 1997-1998.
Science Fiction and Fantasy (English 175). 1998-1999.
Scientific and Technical Writing (English 208), Online. 1998.


Victoria University of Wellington

Writing English (Writ 101). 1996-1997.


Graduate Student Committees and Mentorship

Doctoral Level
(Chair) Shirin Maleki, CRDM, NC State University, 2023-.
(Chair) McKinley Keener. CRDM, NC State University, 2024-.
Bee Rinaldi, CRDM, NC State University, 2023-.
Mar Scardua, CRDM, NC State University, 2023-.
‘Maurika Smutherman, CRDM, NC State University, 2023-.
Travis Merchant-Knudsen, CRDM, NC State University, 2023-.
Emma Stanley, CRDM, NC State University, 2022-.
Robin Holloway, CRDM, NC State University, 2022-.
Hal Meeks, CRDM, NC State University, 2022-.
Robyn Hope, CRDM, NC State University, 2021-.
Chloe Higginbotham, CRDM, NC State University, 2020-.
(Co-chair) Mai Ibrahim, CRDM, NC State University, 2019-.
Asa McMullen, CRDM, NC State University, 2019-.
(Chair) Brittany Young. CRDM, NC State University, degree conferred 2024.
(Chair) Calvin Olsen, CRDM, NC State University, degree conferred 2023.
Madison Schmalzer. CRDM, NC State University, degree conferred 2022.
Hannah Mayfield. CRDM, North Carolina State University, degree conferred 2020.
Ryan McGrady. CRDM, North Carolina State University, degree conferred 2020.
Mai Xiong. CRDM, North Carolina State University, degree conferred 2020.
Steven Smith. CRDM, North Carolina State University, degree conferred 2020.
(Chair) Joshua Jackson. CRDM, North Carolina State University, degree conferred 2020.
Desiree Dighton. CRDM, North Carolina State University, degree conferred 2019.
Abigail Browning. CRDM, North Carolina State University, degree conferred 2019.
Jeonghyun Lee. CRDM, North Carolina State University, degree conferred 2019.
(Chair) Krystin Gollihue. CRDM, North Carolina State University, degree conferred 2019.
Peter Kudenov. CRDM, North Carolina State University, degree conferred 2019.
Sarah Evans. CRDM, North Carolina State University, degree conferred 2018.
T. Mark Bentley. CRDM, North Carolina State University, 2017-.
Alexander Monea. CRDM, North Carolina State University, degree conferred 2016.
Chelsea Hampton. CRDM, North Carolina State University, degree conferred 2016.

Masters Level
Brian Griswold. English MA Capstone, NC State University, 2024.
Lindsey Wright. English Dept. Guest Teacher Program, NC State University, 2023.
Alexus Smith. English Dept. Guest Teacher Program, NC State University, 2020.
Mason Hayes. English Dept. Guest Teacher Program, NC State University, 2020.
Grace Taylor. English MA Capstone, NC State University, 2017.

External Committees
(External Reader) Julie Funk, University of Victoria, 2024.
Anissa Sorokin. U of Maryland Baltimore County, degree conferred 2016.

Duke University Preparing Future Faculty Program
Jordan Sjol, Duke University, 2020-2021.
Russell Coldicutt, Duke University, 2019-2020.
Katya Gorecki, Duke University, 2017-2018.

NCSU Building Future Faculty Program
Professional Identity Mentor, Maria Velazquez, 2018.

HASTAC Mentor
Mai Ibrahim, 2019-2020.
Sarah Evans, 2016-2017.


Institutional Service


North Carolina State University

Administrative
Interim Associate Director, CRDM PhD Program. Fall 2020.
Interim Director, CRDM PhD Program. 2018-19.
Visual Narrative Cluster co-Director. 2016-17.

University
Data Sciences Initiative Advisory Committee. 2015-19.
Visualizing Digital Scholarship/Immersive Scholar Advisory Panel. NCSU Libraries, 2017-2018.
eRA Communications Team. 2016-2018.
Data Sciences Initiative Education Working Group. 2016.
Visual Narrative Cluster Hire Search Committee, 2015-16.

College
Reviewer, CHASS College Merit Scholarships, 2021.
Humanities & Social Sciences Diversity Advisory Committee. 2017-20; 2022-23.
Reviewer, CHASS College Merit Scholarships, 2020.
Program Committee, Communication, Rhetoric & Digital Media (CRDM). 2016-19; 2023-.
CRDM Program Committee Elections Subcommittee, 2017.
CRDM Preliminary Exam Assessment Subcommittee. 2015.

Department

Undergraduate Studies Committee. Department of English, 2019-21; 2023-.
Rhetoric & Professional Writing Disciplinary Group Scheduler. Department of English, 2018-.
Post Tenure Review Committee (Alternate), Department of English, 2015-2016; 2020-21; 2023-.
Promotion Committee (Fyfe). Department of English, 2024.
Search Committee, American Literature. Department of English, 2023-24.
Search Committee, Film. Department of English, 2022-23.
Advisory Committee. Department of English, 2019-21; 2022-23.
Chair, Diversity Committee, Department of English, 2017-2020; 2022-23.
Chair, Promotion Committee (Rieder). Department of English, 2022.
First Year Writing Program Personnel Review Committee. Department of English, 2019, 2022.
TT Faculty Mentor (McMullin). Department of English, 2019.
Language, Writing & Rhetoric Academic Advisor Search Committee. Department of English, 2019.
Tenure Review Committee (Johnston). Department of English, 2019.
TT Faculty Mentor (Johnston). Department of English, 2017-2019.
FYWP Senior Lecturer Personnel Review Committee. Department of English, 2018.
Convener, Digital Humanities Disciplinary Group. Department of English, 2014-2018.
Reappointment Review Committee (Johnston). Department of English, 2016.
Graduate Studies Committee (Alternate). Department of English, 2015-2016.
Research & Professional Development Committee. Department of English, 2014-2016.
Professional Writing NTT Development Committee. Department of English, 2014-2016.


University of Maryland Baltimore County

University
PAHB Public Art Selection Committee, University Committee. 2013-14.
Entrepreneurship Internal Advisory Board. University Committee. 2012-14.

College
Affiliate, Steering Committee, Dept of Language, Literacy and Culture. 2012-14.
Chair, Department Promotion & Tenure Committee, Media & Communication Studies. 2013.
Digital Publishing Initiative, CAHSS/Libraries. 2011-2014.
Digital Humanities Research Group, CAHSS. 2011-2014.
Lecturer II Promotion Committee, Media & Communication Studies. 2012.
Search Committee, Media & Communication Studies. 2008-9.

Department
Interim Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. Department of English. 2014.
MA Curriculum Committee, Department of English. 2013-2014.
Search Committee, Digital Humanities/Rhetoric and Composition. 2013-2014.
Honors Committee, Department of English. 2007-2014.
Student Assessment Committee, Department of English. 2007-2014.
Chair, Ad Hoc Web Committee. Department of English. 2010-2012.
Chair, Department PR Committee, Department of English. 2009-2012.
Teaching Assessment Committee, Department of English. 2007-9.


Washington State University Vancouver

Coordinator, DTC Internship Program. 2003-2006.
e-Portfolio Committee. 2005-2006.
Search Committee, Digital Technology and Culture. 2005-2006.
Campus Arts Committee. 2003-2006.
Search Committee, Technical & Professional Writing. 2005.
American Studies Committee on Digital Diversity. 2003-2004.
Search Committee, World/Ethnic Literatures. 2003-04.
Faculty Advisor, Digital Technology and Culture Club. 2003-2006.
Faculty Advisor, Students for Choice Club. 2004-2005.


Professional Memberships


Modern Language Association.
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts.
Electronic Literature Organization.
Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
Publishers International Linking Association.
Directory of Open Access Journals.
Radical Open Access Collective.