Mark C. Marino	

markcmarino@gmail.com	

Online Portfolio: http://markcmarino.com
Current Position
University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing
Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Writing
Writing Program 	
   Fall 2011-Present
   Fall 2008-Spring 2010
   Fall 2005-Spring 2008	

Taught College English and Advanced Writing for the Writing Program.  Also served as Instructional Advisor (mentor) to new instructors.  Emphasis emerging writing forms.
American Council of Learned Societies Collaborative Research Fellowship      Fall 2013
Developed online resource for the collaborative study of digital literature. 
Fullbright Specialist, University of Bergen, Norway
Taught unit in seminars on electronic literature and Critical Code Studies         Spring 2011
Disney Imagineering, R & D	

Writing and Research Consultant 	
   June -  August 2010	

Director of Communication/Secretary for Electronic Literature Organization Board. 2007-Present
EDUCATION
University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA
Doctor of Philosophy in English
Areas: 20th Century American Lit., Minority Discourse, Cybercultures	
 2006 	

	

Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA 		
Masters of Arts, English Literature 	
2001	

	

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 
Masters of Fine Arts, Creative Writing 	
1996	

	

Brown University, Providence, RI						
Bachelors of Arts, English and American Literature	
1994	

Current Book Projects
Reading Project: a collaborative analysis of Poundstone’s Bottomless Pit presents a new critical model for approaching twenty-first century poetics. Three digital culture scholars approach the same work of digital literature from three distinct critical perspectives—traditional literary hermeneutics, critical code studies, and humanities info-visualization software approaches— to show how scholars can be attentive to content and code, poetics and platforms, and also to each other. The book’s structure presents this practice as a series of feedback loops of interpretative collaboration between the writers with the goal of modeling new critical approaches to digital humanities scholarship. With Jessica Pressman and Jeremy Douglass (forthcoming, University of Iowa Press, 2015)
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 takes a single-line program for the Commodore 64 and uses it for the starting point for a discussion of programming, Basic, early personal computers, and code.  With  Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Michael Mateas, Casey Reas, Mark Sample, and Noah Vawter  (MIT Press, 2013)
Refereed Publications
“Review of Speaking Code by Geoff Cox and Alex McLean.”  Journal of the Association for Information Science Science and Technology.  forthcoming

“Code.” The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media. Marie-Laure Ryan, Lori Emerson, and Benjamin J. Robertson, eds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2014.

"Reading exquisite_code: Critical Code Studies of Literature." Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era. N. Katherine Hayles and Jessica Pressman, eds. Minnesota: Minnesota, 2013.

"Mobilizing Cities: Alternative Storytelling." The Mobile Story: Narrative Practices with Mobile Technologies. Jason Farman, ed. New York: Routledge, 2013
"Code as Ritualized Poetry: The Tactics of the Transborder Immigrant Tool." Digital Humanities Quarterly. 7.1. 2013
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/7/1/000157/000157.html
“Of Sex, Cylons, and Worms: A Critical Code Study of Heteronormativity.”  Leonardo Electronic Almanac. 17.1 April 2012 
http://www.leoalmanac.org/vol17-no2-of-sex-cylons-and-worms/
“The ppg256 Perl Primer: The Poetry of Techneculture”  Emerging Language Practices. http://epc.buffalo.edu/ezines/elp/issue-1/ppg256.php  Issue 1. 2010.
“Critical Code Studies and the electronic book review: An Introduction” electronic book review.  Introduction to CCSWG weekly threads.  http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/firstperson/ningislanded September 15, 2010
Disrupting Heteronormative Codes: When Cylons in Slash Goggles Ogle AnnaKournikova. Dec. 2009. UC Irvine: Digital Arts and Culture 2009. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/09q9m0kn 
”Multimedia Hurston.” Explorations: The Flora Levy Humanities Series. Lafayette: Louisiana State University. 2009.
"Ulysses on Web 2.0: Towards a hypermedia parallax engine." James Joyce Quarterly. 44.3. Spring 2007.
"Critical Code Studies.” electronic book review.  4 December 2006.
http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/codology

“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.

Non-Refereed Publications

“Crowdsourcing Community Service.” Proceedings of “Education in Action: Experiential Learning in Higher Education.”  Diane Forbes, James Lin, and Elizabeth Losh, eds..  Jan 26, 2012

Proceedings of “CCS @ USC” conference.  Edited and wrote an introduction and  “Opening Remarks.”  Vectors Journal.  http://vectorsjournal.org/thoughtmesh/critcode January 2011
“Electronic Literature as an Information System.” Hyperrhiz.06 Visionary Landscapes 
with Juan B. Gutierrez, Pablo Gervás, Laura Borràs Castanyer
http://www.hyperrhiz.net/hyperrhiz06/19-essays/74-electronic-literature-as-an-information-system Summer 2009. 
“Review: The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1: A New Media Primer. Digital Humanities Quarterly.  Summer 2008. v2. n1. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/002/1/000017.html
“Review: Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines.”  Global Media and Communication.  Spring 2008.
"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

Portfolio of Electronic Works
Center for Twitzease Control                                                                          June 2014
Online improvisational language games
Published in SpringGun Press Journal Isssue 9
http://robwit.net/center/
 
Mem-Eraze, a netprov                                                                                    Spring 2014
Online improvisational narrative
Published in New River Journal Spring 2014                                                                                
http://memeraze.tumblr.com/

Mrs. Wobbles and the Tangerine House: The Mysterious Floor    December 2013
Online, choice-based interactive children's narrative: http://markcmarino.com/mrsw/

Speidishow. Writer, Creator.                                                                           October 2013
Web-based Collaborative improvisational Game.  http://speidishow.com
            
"Living Will." Interactive Story Game.                                                                    2012-13
Published in SpringGun Press Journal and translated into French for bleuOrange Review
http://markcmarino.com/tales/livingwill.html

Occupy MLA.                                                                                                     2011-20123
Online improvisational narrative
http://markcmarino.com/wordpress/?page_id=117

DP Project. Walt Disney Imagineering.  Writer.      2010 

“WireWay.” Writer. Nintendo DS Video Game. Konami. 2009.

The Los Angeles Flood Project.  Work-in-Progress
Locative Media Narrative set in Los Angeles. http://laflood.citychaos.com

“A Show of Hands.” Literatronic.  August 2006.
Adaptive hypertext novel, using the Literatronic system.
Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2, 2011
http://hands.literatronica.net, http://collection.eliterature.org/2/

The Ballad of Workstudy Seth.  Twitter Fiction 2009
http://bunkmagazine.com/seth/
Documented:  http://chronicle.com/blogPost/No-Time-to-Twitter-Hire-a/4584/

“The USC Topoi Widgets.”  Pageflakes              2008.
online widgets for teaching Aristotle’s invention topoi.
http://www.pageflakes.com/markcmarino/23536077
http://markcmarino.com/wordpress/?page_id=9

“A Little Show of Hands.”  Hyperrhiz: New Media Culture.  Issue 4. 
Short adaptive hypertext story, developed from “A Show of Hands.”
http://www.hyperrhiz.net/

“The Los Wikiless Timespedia.”  Bunk Magazine April, 2008.
Satire of the fall of newspapers.
http://www.bunkmagazine.com/mediawiki/

“Marginalia in the Library of Babel.”  New River: journal of digital writing and art Fall 2007. 
Metatext narrative written using internet annotations
http://bunkmagazine.com/diigo/ (most recent version)
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/07Fall/

“22 Short Films About Grammar.” Bunk Magazine.  August 2006
Short digital films produced for teaching specific grammar lessons.
http://www.bunkmagazine.com/grammar/

“12 Easy Lessons to Better Time Travel.”  Bunk Magazine. April 2006.
Windows: http://www.bunkmagazine.com/time/introduction.html
MAC: http://www.bunkmagazine.com/time/introduction_mac.html
Featured in:  Second Person.  MIT Press.  November 2006. 
Interactive Story using HTML, FLASH, and JAVASCRIPT.

The Lady or the Tiger Bot.  Pandora Bot featured at DAC 2005
http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=f92e9ba34e35ea30

"Labyrinth: The Rulebook without Game" Bunk Magazine.  February 2005.
Interactive narrative/game
featured in Notre Dame Review Issue 19 Winter 2005.
http://www.nd.edu/~ndr/issues/ndr19/&%20Now.html

"Lumperica Animado," Iowa Review Web.  December 2004 
adaptation of the work of Diamela Eltit (in Spanish and English) http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/dec04/index.html 

“Grand Thieves Audio Modologues,” Bunk Magazine. Sept. 2004.
Interactive monologues as mods for “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City” http://www.bunkmagazine.com/vice/

"Digital Thought, Digital Speech," Interactions and Identities.  January 2004
Chapter and lab for online textbook on New Media. http://digitalmediaculture.ucr.edu/lab9/discovery/discovery3.html

“Barthes Bachelorette,” Bunk Magazine.  April 2003.
Interactive Storytelling Characters in a dating game. http://bunkmagazine.com/dandg/datingAlan/ (requires Internet Explorer)

 “Supreme Commanbear DVD Extras,” Bunk Magazine. Feb. 2002.
Interactive animated shorts in send up of DVD bonus features.
http://www.bunkmagazine.com/supremecommanbear/dvd/productioncompany.html

"Stravinsky’s Muse," The Iowa Review Web.  September 2002
a hypertext story. http://www.bunkmagazine.com/dandg/
Online Venues
Student service projects:  SOS Classroom.  Online educational site for K-8.  Language Arts, Math, Science  July 2009-present http://sosclassroom.org  also, SOS College and Wall Watch.
Critical Code Studies Working Group.  Feb 1-March14, 2010.  Online working group on the topic including weekly discussions and over 100 participants. 
WRT. (Writer Response Theory). Collaborative research blog. January 2005-present
Focus: Interactive Narrative theory and practice.
Founder and contributing blogger. http://writerresponsetheory.org 
Critical Code Studies.  Collaborative resource site for explication of computer code. October 2007-preset http://criticialcodestudies.com
Stephen Dedalus.   Online site of electronic Joyce resources. August 2007-present http://stephendedalus.com
Bunk Magazine. http://www.bunkmagazine.com. On-line new media humor magazine October 1998-Present
Editor-in-Chief.  Co-founder, developed new media projects 
Designed layout for hypertexts, edited magazine content. 
Refereed Conference PRESENTATIONS
"E-Lit After Flash."  Modern Language Association. Chicago 2014.

"Andrews' Open Canvas: A Critical Code Studies Reading of Aleph Null", ELO: Electrifying Literature, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed Abstract, Morgantown, WV, ELO, WVU, 06/20/2012-06/23/2012  

“Crowdsourcing Community Service.” Proceedings of “Education in Action: Experiential Learning in Higher Education.” UCSD, San Diego, CA.  Jan 26, 2012
“Critical Code Studies: The Transborder Immigrant Tool.”  Modern Language Association. Los Angeles 2011
"E-Portfolio Options: Analyses and Observation", Conference on College Composition and Communication , Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed Louisville, KY, CCCC, 03/17/2010-03/20/2010  
“Disrupting heteronormative codes: When cylons in slash goggles ogle Anna Kournikova.” Digital Arts and Culture.  UC Irvine. 12-15 December 2010. 
Digital Humanities. University of Maryland. 22-25 June 2009.
“Widgets: The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sharable Learning Content.”  With Susan Metros. Educause Live. Los Angeles. 27 January 2009. 
“Marginalia in the Library of Babel.”  The Future of Writing.  UC Irvine.  November 6-7, 2008.
Examining The Information Systems Of The Electronic Literature Collection." Visionary Landscapes.  Vancouver, WA. May 29-June1, 2008.
"Original Chat: Exploring the Origins of the Turing Test."  Visionary Landscapes.  Vancouver, WA. May 29-June1, 2008.
“LA Flood Project.” HASTAC II: Techno Travels/TeleMobil HASACE in Motion.  UC Irvine and UCLA,  May 22-24, 2008.
“Critical Code Studies.” Softwhere 2008.  UC San Diego, May 21-22, 2008.
“Marginalia in the Library of Babel.”  &Now Festival of Writing as Contemporary Conceptual Art. April 15-17, 2008.
“Beta Writer: Portrait of the Author as Early Adopter.” Electronic Writing, Poster Session MLA.  Chicago. December 27-30, 2007.   
“Critical Code Studies.”  As respondent to “Reading Code” panel. MLA. Philadelphia. December 2006.
“Entretenenimiento de N-Capas: Literature Electrónica Como un Sistema de Información." With Juan Gutierrez. Online Conference: III Congreso Online Observatorio para la Ciber Sociedad November 20-December 3 2006.
"Labyrinth: The Rulebook Without Game." &Now Festival of Writing as Contemporary Conceptual Art. April 4-5, 2004.
"Word and Deed in College Writing: Social Action and the Composition Classroom." 
 Pedagogy essay presented at CCCC in Denver. March 2000
Conference Papers
“The Code of Hacktavism: A Critical Code Study Case Study,” “Locative Narrative: Reorganizing Space in Mobile E-Literature.” Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, Jan 6-9, 2011.
"Leveraging New Media in a Writing Program: Tools and Techniques for Teaching and Learning ", New Media Consortium Summer Conference, Roundtable/Panel, Refereed Los Angeles, NMC, 06/08/2010-06/10/2010  
"Re-Tooling Learning: Student Empowerment through Databases, Information Visualizations, and Nested Media", New Media Consortium Summer Conference, Roundtable/Panel, Refereed Los Angeles, California, 06/08/2010-06/10/2010  
Intersecting Approaches to Electronic Literature: Close-Reading Code, Content, and Cartographies in William Poundstone’s Project for the Tachistoscope.  Electronic Literature Organization, Brown U. 3-6 June 2010. 
“Terrorist Databases: Critical Code Studies and the Hunt for Terrorists.”  Digital Humanities, University of Maryland, June 22-25, 2009.
 “Encoding Terrorism:  Applying Critical Code Studies to Command And Control Code.  SLSA.  Portland, Maine Nov. 1-4, 2007.
“Marginalia Ficcional de la Biblioteca de Babel.”  VI Jornadas de Investigación Literaria y Lingüística. Universidad del Zulia.  Maracaibo, Venezuela.  26 Septemeber 2007.
International Electronic Literature Panel.  MITH/ELO Future of Electronic Literature. UMD.  May 3, 2007.
“Performative Chatbots: Gender and Race in Conversational Agents.”  MIT.  18 December 2006.
“Racial Transformations in Keepers of the House.”  Colloquium on Shirley Ann Grau.  University of Louisiana, Lafayette 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. 
"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
Awards and Grants
American Council of Learned Societies Collaborative Research Fellowship. 2013-14.
Fulbright Specialist.   2011-2016.
USC Parents Association Stephen B. Sample Teaching and Mentoring Award Nominee 2011.
2011 NEH Vectors Summer Institute Fellowship.
USC Parents Association Stephen B. Sample Teaching and Mentoring Award Nominee 2010.
Fulbright Specialist.  Communication and Journalism.  Guest researcher at University of Bergen, Norway, March 13-April 2, 2010.
“a show of hands”  2nd place.  Nuestras Voces competition for new plays about the Latino experience in the United States from Repertorio Españo. 2010.
“a show of hands” Regional Finalist for David Mark Cohen Award from  Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
2010-11 Teaching with Technology Grants: Course Continuity in a Crisis [C3]. Mapping Voices of the Crisis: Students collect Oral Histories on experiences of crises in Los Angeles. This project is part of a "plan b" assignment to be deployed in the event of a natural or political disaster, $7,500, 2010-2011   
UCR Mellon Workshops: Funds for the coordination of monthly lectures and presentations on Interactive Media throughout the 2004-2005. 
Courses Taught
College English, College Writing
Advanced Writing
Advanced Writing with Technology
Introduction to Fiction
Introduction to Creative Writing
New Media Workshop (Graduate Course)
Teaching Practicum (for graduate student Assistant Lecturers)
Academic Service
Reviewer for: 
•	University of Minnesota Press, 2011
•	International Journal for Language and New Media, 2010
•	James Joyce Quarterly, 2008
•	Siggraph, 2008
•	International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 2006
Writing Program. USC                                                                                                       2006-2009
Designed and maintained website and developed database for pedagogical support materials.
Undergraduate Thesis Advisor: 
Jason Lipshin, Institute for Multimedia Literacy, Honors Thesis 2010-2011
Artists Speak. LMU.                                                                                                       Nov. 2001-2005 
2-hour annual performance, featuring   dance, film, poetry, art, and playwriting responding to issues of global human rights. 
           Produced, coordinated, developed.
Coordinated Lectures
Organizer/Moderator, Critical Code Studies Working Group (2010, 2012, 2014), Online, The Critical Code Studies Working Group was an intensive 6 week online conference, anchored by weekly presentations by top scholars in this emerging field. Produced interpretive readings of computer source code and an extensive bibliography. Threads are being published in electronic book review, 02/01/2010-03/14/2010 &  01/30/2012-02/20/2012 & 2/23-3/23/2014

Organizer, Critical Code Studies @ USC, USC, An intensive one-day conference bringing together an international group of scholars to present critical interpretations of computer source code, following up on the Critical Code Studies Working Group., 07/23/2010  

Organizer, Digital Arts and Culture; Literary Arts Extravaganza, UC Irvine, Genres include: live video sculpture, locative media narratives, networked fiction, Flash poetry, and works that words only cannot yet describe! Gallery: http://writerresponsetheory.org/dac09/, 12/14/2009   
Professional Membership
Modern Language Association, Electronic Literature Organization, CLACSO (El Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales).
Languages
Spanish, Ancient Greek, HTML, ActionScript, AIML, JavaScript, Lisp
Previous Teaching Experience
Loyola Marymount University  Los Angeles, CA	

Lecturer (part-time) First Year Institute 
Visiting Lecturer (full-time)  English Department	
Fall 1998-2005 
Fall 2001-2002 	

New Media Workshop: Designed and taught this interdisciplinary graduate course, gathering Computer Science, English, and Multimedia Students to design and create storytelling programs. (Samples Available)
Taught Creative Writing Survey for Non-Majors
Taught for the First Year Institute an academic enrichment program, pairing College Writing and Introduction to Fiction courses with other disciplines. 
UC Riverside Riverside, CA	

Teaching Assistant	
2003-2005 	

Taught College Writing, 1A and 1B. In each of these courses, I implemented a computer component, involving weekly sessions in an on-campus computer lab. 
Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA	

Instructor (part-time)	
Fall 1996-2003	

Taught Creative Writing and all levels of College Writing from remedial and basic writing to critical thinking.  Designed Courses, including a critical survey of Humor and Satire. Worked in the Writing Lab as a tutor.
Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA	

Instructor (part-time) 	
Fall 1996-1999	

Taught: College Writing, all levels.
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 	

Teaching Assistant	
Fall 1995-Spring 1996	

Taught Intro. to Creative Writing. Fiction, Poetry, and Dramatic Writing and Stage Comedy Writing.
Summer Bridge Programs
Taught in a variety of programs targeting inner-city youth, from 6th-12th grade.  Reading, Composition. Published journal of student writing.
SummerTIME Write On!, Los Angeles, CA	

Teacher	
2006, 2007	

Upward Bound, Los Angeles CA	

Teacher	
1999	

Midtown Achievement Program, Chicago, IL	

Teacher	
1997	

Crotona Achievement Program, South Bronx, NY 	

Teacher	
1992-95	

References
John Holland.  (213) 740-1980
Writing Program, University of Southern California, LA, CA 90089
Toby Miller  44(0)7826 612814
Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Cardiff,  Wales, Cardiff CF10 3XQ, United Kingdom
N. Katherine Hayles  (919) 684-9319  
Literature Dept.  Duke University, Box 90670, Durham, NC, 27708
Raymond L. Williams.  (951) 827-4237
Hispanic Studies Dept.  University of California, Riverside, CA 92521