"A Sustainable Dystopia." Co-authored with Casey Boyle. Kenneth Burke + Posthumanism, edited by Chris Mays, Nathaniel A. Rivers, and Kellie Sharp-Hoskins, Penn State University Press, 2017
Academic Appointments
Assistant Instructor, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, Department of English University of Texas at Austin. 2011-2018
Graduate Assistant, Department of English, University of Florida 2008-2011
Staff Member, viz. Blog, Digital Writing and Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin. 2011-2012
Teaching
University of Texas at Austin
E 314J Literature and Climate Change. Spring 2015
E 314J Literature and Digital Media. Spring 2014
Rhe 309K Rhetoric of Technology. Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013
Rhe 306 Rhetoric and Writing. Fall 2011, Spring 2012
University of Florida
ENG 1131 Writing Through Media. Spring 2011
ENG 1145 Writing Experiments. Fall 2010
ENC 2210 Technical Writing. Summer 2009
ENC 3254 Professional Communication for Engineers. Fall 2008, Spring 2009
ENC 1102 Rhetoric and Academic Research. Spring 2009 (co-taught)
ENC 1101 Writing Academic Arguments. Fall 2008 (co-taught), Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Summer 2010
Presentations
Invited Lectures
"Physical Computing Workshop using PicoBoards: The Affordances of Physical Computing." Inter-L&S 102: Writing and Coding, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI. Nov. 2012
Conference Presentations
"Material Pedagogies: Gestures of Autoimmunity.” Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY. October 2018
"Interruptive Relation: Bestial Sophists, a Parasitic Socrates, and Toxoplasma gondii." Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN. May 2018
“Toward a More Ethical Writing Assessment: Cultivating Risk, Range, and Reflection with the Learning Record.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR. March 2017
"Figuring the Parasite in Human/Earth Relations." Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. Atlanta, GA. May 2016
"Post-Parasite: Cats, Toxoplasma gondii, and 'I'." Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Houston, TX. November 2015
"Writing Machines: Assisted Stupidity." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Tampa, FL. March 2015
"Spit Take: Salivating Before the Other." Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Dallas, TX. October 2014
"Hedging Machine." Computers and Writing Conference. Pullman, WA. June 2014
"Host Earth: Rhetorics of Parasitism and Autoimmunity." Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. South Bend, IN. October 2013
"Writing Machines: Resistance, Reticence, Repetition." Computers and Writing Conference. Frostburg, MD. June 2013
"Nonhuman Scholarship and its Rhetorical Agency." Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Milwaukee, WI. September 2012
"(Re)readwriting Companion Species." Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. Philadelphia, PA. May 2012
"Magic, Technology, Rhetoric." Computers and Writing Conference. Raleigh, NC. May 2012
"Indigestion Machines: Writing Restraint/Writing Reluctance." Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Kitchner, ON. September 2011
"200001." E-Poetry 2011: International Digital|Arts|Poetics Festival. Buffalo, NY. May 2011
"Texts as Technobodies: Reading/Writing Indigestion." Conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts. Indianapolis, IN. October 2010
"Reading the General Economy: A Moment of Crisis" Marxist Reading Group Conference. Gainesville, FL. March 2010
"Scrolling Rhizomes." Futures of Digital Studies 2010. Gainesville, FL. February 2010
"Becoming Plateauic: A General Flight Towards the Borderlands." Madison Graduate Student Conference in Language and Literature. Madison, WI. February 2009
Grants and Awards
Excellence Fellowship. Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin. Fall 2016, Spring 2017
The John Slatin Prize for Mastery of Electronic Media in Education. Department of Rhetoric and Writing, The University of Texas at Austin. 2013
Professional Development Award. Office of Graduate Studies, The University of Texas at Austin. 2012-2015 (competitive grant received multiple times)
Professional Development Award. Digital Writing and Research Lab, The University of Texas at Austin. 2013-2015 (competitive grant received multiple times)
Graduate Recruitment Award. Office of Graduate Studies. The University of Texas at Austin. 2011
Service
Lower Division Curriculum Committee, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, University of Texas at Austin. 2014-2015
Editorial Board Member. The Journal for Undergraduate Multimedia Projects. 2013-present
First-Year Forum Committee. Department of Rhetoric and Writing, The University of Texas at Austin. 2013
HASTAC Scholar. Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory. 2013