Memberships

Modern Language Association, International Communication Association, National Communication Association, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Electronic Literature Organization, Association of Internet Researchers, CLACSO (El Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales).

Reviewer: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.

Portfolio of Electronic Works

[Click here for a detailed list of creative electronic works]

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22 Short Films about Grammar
12 Easy Lessons to Better Time Travel
Labyrinth: the Rulebook without Game
Lumperica Animado
Grand Theives Audio Modologues
Digital Thought, Digital Speech
Barthes' Bachelorette
Supreme Commanbear DVD Extras
Stravinsky's Muse

Web Design:
developer and webmaster for Writing Program site.

Publications

"Review: Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines." Global Media and Communication. forthcoming Spring 2007.

"Communities of Chatbots: a Survey of the makers and users of conversation agents" under review at New Media and Society.

"Re: Ulysses in Hypertext: Towards a hypermedia parallax engine." Forthcoming in the James Joyce Quarterly.

"Multimedia Hurston ." Forthcoming in Explorations: The Flora Levy Humanities Series. Lafayette : University of Southern Louisiana.

"Critical Code Studies." electronic book review. 4 December 2006  

"Benchmark Fiction: A Framework for Comparative New Media Studies." with Christy Dena and Jeremy Douglass. Proceedings of the Seventh International Digital Arts and Cultures Conference. Copenhagen. Nov. 30-Dec. 3, 2005. Copenhagen, Denmark.

"Griselda Quilts: A Metaphor for Collaborative Texts," an essay published in Criterion. April 2001

"A Quiet Laugh," a short story published in Piedmont Literary Review December 2000

"Tuning the Lyre: The Harmony of Eliot, Yeats , and Heraclitus ," an essay published in Criterion. April 2000

"Panda with Care," a short story published in Booklovers. August 1999

"Equivocado," a short story published in Arkansas Review. December 1997

Conference Papers

"Critical Code Studies." As respondent to "Reading Code" panel. MLA. Philadelphia. December 2006.

"N-Capas: Literatura Electrónica Como un Sistema de Información." with Juan B. Guiterrez. Online Conference: III Congreso Online Observatorio para la Ciber Sociedad November 20-December 3 2006.

"Racial Transformations in Keepers of the House." Symposium on Shirley Ann Grau. U Louisiana. Lafayette, LA. November 20, 2006.

"Grand Thieves Audio." FILE in Sao Paulo, Brasil. November 1-5, 2005.

"Critical Code Studies." ISR Graduate Student Research Forum. UC Irvine. June 3, 2005.

"Automatons and other Outlandish Party Tricks: From Poe to Post-Modern." USC AEGS Conference April 10, 2005.

"Grand Theft Auto: Counter-Narratives of Video Game Violence." Bellarmine Forum on Violence. LMU Nov. 7-13, 2004.

"Stravinsky 's Muse." Digital Narr@tive Conference. UCLA. UCLA Hammer Museum. April 22-23, 2004.

"Chatbots and Performative Citation." Digital Narr@tive Conference. UCLA. UCLA Hammer Museum. April 22-23, 2004.

" Barthes Bachelorette and other Bots." UCR disjunctions, Romancing Heteroglossia. April 9-10, 2004.

"Labyrinth: The Rulebook Without Game." &Now Festival of Writing as Contemporary Conceptual Art. April 4-5, 2004.

"Beautiful Bots." USC AEGS The Judgment of Beauty. April 2-3, 2004.

"Unusual Classroom Technology: Blackboard, Blogs, and Beyond." LMU Center for Teaching Excellence. April 1, 2004

"New Media Workshop: The Prequel: Hyping Hypertext." LMU. March 4, 2004.

"Stravinsky ’s Muse." Electronic Literature Organization conference in Los Angeles. UCLA. April 2002

"Griselda Quilts: A Metaphor for Collaborative Texts." Medieval Association of the Pacific in San Diego. March 2002