whitney anne trettien

whitney[dot]trettien[shift+2]duke.edu, www.whitneyannetrettien.com

RESEARCH INTERESTS

History of the book and printing; digital humanities; early modern literature and material culture; creative criticism; the relationship between technology, language and literature; curiosity cabinets and digital wunderkammer; intellectual history; digital poetry and literature; methodologies in media history, including ethnography and media archaeology; periods of media in transition.

EDUCATION

(in progress) PhD, Duke University, Durham, NC (2009-present)

English

SM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (2007-2009)

Comparative Media Studies; GPA: 4.0

Masters thesis: "Computers, Cut-ups and Combinatory Volvelles: An Archaeology of Text-Generating Mechanisms"; Supervisor: William Uricchio; Committee: Ed Barrett, Kurt Fendt, Chris Funkhouser

BA (summa cum laude), Hood College, Frederick, Maryland (2003-2007)

Double major in English and Philosophy with Honors Program

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

PUBLICATIONS (academic + creative)

"Narrative Multiplicities and Pack Media: Re-reading the Reader into Dracula." Hyperrhiz.08: New Media Cultures Spring 2011.

"Vanishing Transliteracies in Beowulf and Samuel Pepys's Diary," co-written with Martin Foys. Textual Culture, Cultural Texts, 1000-2010. Ed. by Orietta Da Rold and Elaine Treharne. Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2010.

"Disciplining Digital Humanities, 2010: A Review of Shakespeare's Staging, XMAS, Shakespeare Performance in Asia, Shakespeare Quartos Archive and Bardbox." Shakespeare Quarterly 61.3 (Fall 2010).

"Review: Shakespeare Quartos Archive." SHARP News. Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (Spring 2011).

"Computers, Cut-ups and Combinatory Volvelles," Electronic Book Review (electro-poetics thread). Published 5 June 2010.

"Speaking of Rivers." Co-written with J. Peter Moore. SpringGun Press 3 (October 2010).

"Alphabet of Stars." SpringGun Press 3 (October 2010).

"HyperStudio Develops Resources for Exploring History and Historiography." In Media Res (Spring 2008): 19.

Cost of Freedom: The Anthology of Peace and Activism. Co-edited with Michael Annis, Mike Palecek. Denver, CO: Howling Dog Press, 2007.

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

"The Book Rebels: Flap Anatomies, Fore-edge Paintings, and Other Acts of Digital Resistance"

• Invited talk HUMlab (Umea University, Sweden, May 2011)

"Creative Criticism"

• Poster at Computers & Writing 2011 (University of Michigan, May 2011)

"Mapping Paper Bodies: The Technology of Early Modern Anatomy Flapbooks"

• Animated Anatomies: A Symposium (Duke University, April 2011)

"So that a Plant is, as it were, an Animal in Quires”: Nehemiah Grew's Biblio-botany"

• Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects in the Medieval/Early Modern Periods (GWU, March 2011)

"Storming Scholarly Publishing" (with Ken Wissoker)

• Session at HASTAC's Storming the Academy tent, Mozilla Drumbeat Festival (Barcelona, November 2010)

"Hidden in Gilt: Fore-edge Paintings and Restoration-era Reading"

• Material Cultures 2010 (University of Edinburgh, July 2010)
• Paperwork: Agencies and Subjectivities Symposium (Harvard University, October 2009)

"Emergent Time" software demonstration, with Christopher York

• Digital Humanities 2010 (London King's College, July 2010)
• "Speaking of Rivers: A Digital Detournement of Langston Hughes' Archive"
• American Comparative Literature Association (New Orleans, April 2010)

"'Earth like a changing-wheel': Seventeenth-century Digital Poetry"

• Art, Fact, Artifact: The Book in Time and Place (College Book Arts Association Biennial Conference, January 2009)
• Under review for Media in Transition: Stone and Papyrus, Storage and Transmission (MIT, April 2009)

"'The sound of the printed Letter': Orthography, Orthoepy and English Dictionaries in Print Culture"

• Departmental Honors Thesis Presentations (Hood College, April 2007)

"The Seduction of the Self: Mirroring in Kierkegaard's The Seducer's Diary"

• Departmental Honors Thesis Presentations (Hood College, April 2006)

"Kant's Invention of Autonomy: Misconstruing Evil and the Individual"

• Pacific University Philosophy Conference (Pacific University, March 2006)
• Annual Oneonta Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (SUNY-Oneonta, March 2006)

"On Being a Farang: Linguistic Post-Colonialism in Bangkok"

• Presentation to the Second Century Foundation on my experiences teaching English in Thailand (Frederick, Maryland, March 2006)
• Maryland Collegiate Honors Council Annual Conference (Frostburg State University, March 2006)

"Chaunticleer so free / Soon murier than the mermayde in the see: The Sign of Melodye in the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'"

• Hood Regional Medieval Conference (Hood College, March 2006)

Other conferences attended:

• The Gift of History: A Symposium in Honor of Natalie Zemon Davis (Harvard University, November 2008)
• Interrupt: Language-Driven Digital Arts Festival (Brown University, October 2008)
• The English Institute (Harvard University, September 2008)
• International Medieval Congress (Leeds University, England, July 2006)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant, Digital Poetry, forthcoming by Ed Barrett (MIT Press) (2007)

Responsible for gathering, sorting and archiving research on digital poems

Research Assistant, HyperStudio Lab for the Digital Humanities, MIT (Sept. 2007 to present)

Project lead, "The Serial Experience Project" (SEP); Principal Investigators: James Buzard (MIT), Joseph Childers (UC-Riverside), Kurt Fendt (HyperStudio)

Project lead, "US-Iran Relations Project"; Principal Investigators: janet Lang (Brown), John Tirman (MIT), Malcolm Byrne (National Security Archive)

Project lead, "Tories, Timid or True Blue?"; NEH-funded, Old North Foundation

Contributed to the Art of Probability Project (Shankar Raman, MIT) and Comdie-Franaise Registers Project (Jeff Ravel, MIT)

Responsible for various outreach activities, including helping to organize HyperStudio's humanities+DIGITAL Workshop (November 2008) and blogging

Research Assistant, Cotton Map Project; Principal Investigator: Martin Foys (Summer 2006)

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

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Indexer and proofreader, Virtually Anglo-Saxon: Old Media, New Media, and Early Medieval Studies in the Late Age of Print, by Martin K. Foys (December 2006 - February 2007)

Employee, C. Burr Artz Public Library (June 2001 to March 2007)

Organizer, ACORN, Baltimore, MD office (Summer 2006)

Co-owner/operator, Moonslush.com, an online fashion store (1999 to Summer 2006)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

• Member, MLA
• Host and curator, History Blog Carnival (February 2009)
• College Book Arts Association, Member (2008)
• HASTAC, Member (2008)
• Blogger, d i a p s a l m a t a, (ongoing)