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.
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