At Penn State, I was the first faculty director (2014–2021) of the Digital Culture and Media Initiative, a project of the Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts. My teaching includes undergraduate and graduate courses in new media and digital studies. Recent graduate seminars include “Media Theory and Modernity,” “Historicizing ‘Digital Humanities’,” and “Platform, Software and Code Studies.” Other undergraduate and graduate teaching has included courses in the theory of the essay, the literary fragment, U.S. nonfiction prose, and literatures of migration and displacement.
Doctoral dissertations directed in the Department of English:
Rebecca Cheong, “Software Ocean: New Media Aesthetics and Water in Nineteenth-Century American Literature” (2023, co-directed with Hester Blum).
Robert Nguyen, “Silicon Valley Stories: Reckonings, Recursions, and Infinite Loops” (2023). Publications include “Middle-out from Bottom-up: Engineering and Close Reading Code in HBO's Silicon Valley,” Configurations 30.4 (Fall 2022): 435-464.
Max Larson, “Computation and Critique: Two Cultures of Literary Method, 1945-1990” (2019). Publications include “Computer Center Sabotage: Luddism, Black Studies, and the Diversion of Technological Progress,” boundary 2 50.4 (2023); “At the Border of the Digital Divide: San Jose Unified School District and Evangelina Vigil-Piñon's The Computer is Down,” American Quarterly 74.2 (2022): 345–368; “Optimizing Chess: Philology and Algorithmic Culture.” diacritics 46.1 (2018): 30–53.
John Schneider, “Crisis Methods: Writer-Critics, Professionalism, and the Post-World War II American University” (2018). Publications include “Remaking the Renaissance Man: General Education and the Golden Age of the American University,” American Quarterly 73.1 (March 2021): 53–74; “The Romance of Expertise: The Research University and the Methodological Turn,” Cultural Critique 113 (Fall 2021): 72–102.
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"Foo, Bar, Baz…: The Metasyntactic Variable and the Programming Language Hierarchy." Philosophy & Technology 34.1 (2021): 13–32. (Special issue "Computing and Programming in Context.")
“Challenges to Monolingual National Literatures.” The Multilingual Challenge: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, ed. Ulrike Jessner-Schmid and Claire J. Kramsch. De Gruyter, 2015. 143–160.
“Machine Translation: A Tale of Two Cultures.” A Companion to Translation Studies. Ed. Sandra Bermann and Catherine Porter. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014. 133–146.
“The Eversion of the Digital Humanities.” On Steven E. Jones, The Emergence of the Digital Humanities (Routledge, 2014). boundary 2: The b2 Review, September 2014. n. p.
“Screening a Digital Visual Poetics.” Configurations 8:1 (Winter 2000): 63-85. Rpt.: “Screening a Digital Visual Poetics.” In Eduardo Kac, ed., Media Poetry: An International Anthology, (Bristol: Intellect Books, 2007): 251-270.
