EDUCATION

  • PhD in English, University of Florida, December 2006
  • MA in English, University of Florida, May 1996
  • BA magna cum laude, University of Tampa, May 1983

PROFESSIONAL

  • University of Tampa, assistant professor of communication, August 2009-present
  • State University of New York, Plattsburgh, assistant professor of communication, August 2007-August 2009
  • Rhodes College, part-time faculty, 2002-2006
  • University of Florida Department of English, graduate teaching assistant, 1994-2001
  • University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, instructional technology specialist, summer 2000
  • The Tampa Tribune, reporter, 1986-1993
  • The Ledger, Lakeland, Florida, reporter, 1983-1986

SCHOLARLY WRITING

  • Hauntology and Humanities Studies. Book manuscript in progress.
  • "Thinking About the Pyramid: An (Un)Called-for Proposal." Imaging Place. Ed. Craig Saper, W.F. Garrett-Petts, and John Craig Freeman. Textual Studies in Canada. Kamloops, BC: Thompson Rivers University Press, 2009.
  • "Thinking About the Pyramid: An (Un)Called-for Proposal." Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 18 (2009).
  • "The Philosophy Behind the VT-Y Image" (brief artist’s statement). Fast Capitalism 3.1 (2007).
  • "Haunting in the Age of Electronic Post-Literacy." Visual Media and the Humanities: A Pedagogy of Representation. Ed. Kecia D. McBride. Tennessee Studies in the Humanities 42. University of Tennessee Press, 2004.
  • "From Utopianism to Weak Messianism: Electronic Culture's Spectral Moment." The Politics of Information: The Electronic Mediation of Social Change. Ed. Marc Bousquet and Katherine Wills. Alt-X Press, 2003.

PUBLISHED OR EXHIBITED MEDIA WORK

  • Thinking About the Pyramid. Web site and mulitmedia. Aug. 4-8, 2009. University of New Orleans. Exhibition in conjunction with the University Film and Video Association annual conference.
  • Staging Hauntology. Multimedia DVD-ROM. Ideas in Mediation. Aug. 12-16, 2008. Cornerstone Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO. Exhibition in conjunction with the University Film and Video Association annual conference.
  • VT-Y. Digital Image. Fast Capitalism 3.1 (2007).

PRESENTATIONS

  • "What Hauntology Can Teach Us About Media Production and the Future," International Digital Media & Arts Association, November 2008
  • "So Much to Do, So Little Time: The Question of Core Skills for Digital Media Students," University Film and Video Association, August 2008
  • Presentation of Staging Hauntology (Multimedia DVD-ROM) with response by Kylos Brannon of American University, University Film and Video Association, August 2008
  • "Thinking About the Pyramid: An (Un)Called-for Proposal," Imaging Place, February 2007
  • "Invading the Past! Genre and Anachronism in Destroy All Humans!" Videogames and the Alien Other, April 2006
  • "Saving Yourself for Tenure: Intellectual Property and the Job Candidate's Dilemma," Modern Language Association, December 2000
  • "Ghosts Outside the Machine: From Magic Lantern to Electronic Phantasmagoria," Society for Literature and Science, October 2000
  • "(Fe)tisch: The Table as Subversive Element in HTML," 16th Computers and Writing Conference, May 2000
  • "From M. Dupin to Agent Mulder: Toward a Research Model for the Electronic Classroom," 15th Computers and Writing Conference, May 1999
  • "Notes Toward a Manifesto for Graduate Student Labor in the Electronic Classroom," Modern Language Association, December 1998
  • "Hard Copy: Transparent Gestures and the (Re)Production of Community," Society for Literature and Science, November 1998
  • "Writing and Distance: Derrida and ‘Spectral Writing’," 14th Computers and Writing Conference, May 1998
  • "Do Cyborgs Suffer From Archive Fever?: Knowledge, Corporeality, and Electronic Space," Society for Literature and Science, October 1997
  • "Mapping Private Space in Cyberspace: Pedagogy, Corporeality, and the Corporate," Conference for College Composition and Communication, March 1997
  • "From Heart to Head: Mapping Health onto the Body Politic," Society for Literature and Science, October 1996