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History of the book and printing; early modern literature; dictionaries and grammar books; the relationship between technology, language and literature; intellectual history; medieval and baroque automata; digital poetry and literature; methodologies in media history, including ethnography and media archaeology; periods of media in transition.
Masters thesis (in progress): "'Earth like a changing-wheel': Seventeenth-century Digital Poetry"; Supervisor: William Uricchio; Committee: Ed Barrett, Kurt Fendt, Chris Funkhouser
Philosophy Honors thesis: "The Seduction of the Self: Mirroring in Kierkegaard's The Seducer's Diary"; Supervisor: Karen Hoffman; Committee: Stephen Wilson, David Hein
English Honors thesis: "'The sound of the printed letter': Orthography, Orthoepy and English Dictionaries in Print Culture"; Supervisor: Martin Foys; Committee: Mark Sandona, Karen Hoffman
Chapter on remediating literature, co-authored with Martin Foys, forthcoming in Textual Culture, Cultural Texts, 1000-2010. Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2009.
"Rethinking Interactivity in the Digital Archive." Carnivalesque: Early Modern Edition 44 (24 Oct 2008): http://mercuriuspoliticus.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/carnivalesque-44/
"HyperStudio Develops Resources for Exploring History and Historiography." In Media Res (Spring 2008): 19.
"This Ain't Your Gramma's Embroidery!: An Interview with Jenny Hart." Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins (7 Dec 2007): http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/12/this_aint_your_grammas_embroid.html
Cost of Freedom: The Anthology of Peace and Activism. Co-edited with Michael Annis, Mike Palecek. Denver, CO: Howling Dog Press, 2007.
"Horton Hears a Heil: Analogs for America in Dr. Seuss's Horton Hatches the Egg and Horton Hears a Who!" Hotel 5 (2006, McGill University).
"Kant's Invention of Autonomy: Misconstruing Evil and the Individual." University of Minnesota Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy 1 (2006, University of Minnesota): 27-46.
"'Earth like a changing-wheel': Seventeenth-century Digital Poetry"
"'The sound of the printed Letter': Orthography, Orthoepy and English Dictionaries in Print Culture"
"The Seduction of the Self: Mirroring in Kierkegaard's The Seducer's Diary"
"Kant's Invention of Autonomy: Misconstruing Evil and the Individual"
"On Being a Farang: Linguistic Post-Colonialism in Bangkok"
"Chaunticleer so free / Soon murier than the mermayde in the see: The Sign of Melodye in the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'"
Responsible for gathering, sorting and archiving research on digital poems
Contributed to the Art of Probability Project (Shankar Raman, MIT) and Comédie-Française Registers Project (Jeff Ravel, MIT)
Responsible for various outreach activities, including helping to organize HyperStudio's humanities+DIGITAL Workshop (November 2008) and blogging
Responsible for translating Old English and Latin source texts, then tagging them to a digital edition of the Cotton Map, a little-studied Anglo-Saxon mappamundi, using XML
Classically-trained flutist and pianist, playing since 1991; I have given recitals of Debussy, Gershwin and Mozart. I am also very active in social justice movements, having worked as a volunteer for ProLiteracy, tutoring ESL; Women in Black (Frederick, MD chapter), organizing "Eyes Wide Open" events; and the Frederick County Green Party, which I founded. I have also written extensively on the peace movement. In my spare time, I collect dictionaries.