Education

in progress: PhD, George Mason University

• Discipline: Cultural Studies
• Fields: Environment and Culture; Digital Culture

MA, Virginia Tech

• Date: May 2011
• Discipline: English
• Thesis: “A Genealogy of Frankenstein's creation: Appropriation, hypermediacy, and distributed cognition in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, Victor Erice's Spirit of the Beehive, and Mary Shelly's Frankenstein”

BA, College of William and Mary

• Date: May 2001
• Major: English
• Minor: Philosophy

Awards

XCaliber Award, Virginia Tech

• Date: August 2011
• Description: Joint award to ePortfolio for English Studies team (Nancy Metz, Jennifer Lawrence, Lissa Bloomer, Steve Oakey, Julie Mengert, administrative support, and myself) for innovative teaching.

Carol Chermside Award, Virginia Tech

• Date: May 2012
• For best graduate thesis in English, May 2011

Classroom

GMU CULT 320 Globalization and Culture, 3 credits

• Position: Graduate Teaching Assistant (instructor-of-record)
• Date: Spring 2014
• Location: Fairfax, VA

GMU HNRS 110 Honors College Research Methods, 4 credits

• Position: Graduate Teaching Assistant, main section, 3 credits
• Position: Graduate Teaching Assistant, recitation (instructor-of-record), 1 credit
• Date: Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013
• Location: Fairfax, VA

GMU NCLC 203 From Inquiry to Action, 6 credits

• Postion: Graduate Teaching Assistant (instructor-of-record)
• Date: Spring 2012, Spring 2013
• Location: Fairfax, VA

VT ENGL 2614 ePortfolio for English Studies

• Position: Graduate Teaching Assistant
• Date: Fall 2010 - Spring 2011
• Location: Blacksburg, VA

Other Academic Employment

GMU HNRS Research, Technology, and Online Community project

• Position: Graduate Technical Director
• Date: Summer 2012 - present
• Location: Fairfax, VA

Saylor.org PRDV 251 HTML/CSS for Beginners

• Position: Consulting Professor
• Date: Summer 2012 - Spring 2013
• Location: Washington, DC

VT ENGL 2614 ePortfolio textbook committee

• Position: Paid committee member
• Date: May 2011-August 2011; May 2010-August 2010
• Location: Blacksburg, VA

VT Center for 21st Century Studies

• Position: Graduate Research Assistant
• Date: June 2010 - August 2010
• Location: Blacksburg, VA

Academic Publications

The Politics of Space in Joe Sacco's Representations of the Appalachian Coalfields

• forthcoming in The Comics of Joe Sacco, edited by Daniel Worden

The Epistemology of Comics Journalism

• Public Knowledge Journal, 3:1

Conference Papers

Towards an ecocritical theory of comics journalism: Spatial practices and affective engagements in Joe Sacco's representations of inequity in the Appalachian coal fields

• Conference: Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
• Date: March 27, 2013
• Location: Washington, DC

The Epistemology of comics journalism

• Conference: International Communication Association
• Date: May 28, 2012
• Location: Phoenix, AZ

Frankenstein's hideous progeny go forth: Reception theories, participatory culture, and distributed cognition

• Conference: Virginia Tech English Graduate Student Organization
• Date: February 2012
• Location: Blacksburg, VA

Bela Tarr's Werkmeister Harmonies: Diegetic Space and Ideology

• Conference: Virginia Tech English Graduate Student Organization
• Date: February 2011
• Location: Blacksburg, VA

Towards an Epistemological Theory of Comics Journalism: Case Studies in the War Reportage of Joe Sacco

• Conference: Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
• Date: October 2010
• Location: Alexandria, VA

Mutual Aid and the Struggle for Existence in Darwinist Fiction: Representations of the Primate as Natural Other in H.G. Wells' The Time Machine and Peter Dickinson's Eva

• Conference: Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
• Date: April 2, 2010
• Location: St. Louis, MO

Digital Humanities

In-progress: Principal Developer

• Young Patriots Organization Website

Student Contributor

• Project Name: Smith Family Letters: Four Carroll County, Virginia Soldiers in the American Civil War
• Institution: Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech
• Date: Spring 2010

Student Contributor

• Project Name: Lord Byron and His Times
• Institution: Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech
• Date: Spring 2010