Curriculum Vitae

Kim A. Brillante Knight, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Critical Media Studies
School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication
University of Texas at Dallas
kknight08 at gmail dot com

Administrative Appointments

Area Head, Critical Media Studies, School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2017 – present.[1]

Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2017 – 2021.

Academic Employment

Associate Professor of Critical Media Studies (formerly EMAC), The University of Texas at Dallas, 2016 – Present.

Assistant Professor of Emerging Media and Communication (EMAC), The University of Texas at Dallas, 2010 – 2016.

Teaching Associate, Project Coordinator, and Research Assistant, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004 – 2010.

Teaching Assistant and TA Coordinator, California State University, Northridge, 2002 – 2004.

Education

Doctorate of Philosophy. English Literature. University of California, Santa Barbara. Fall 2011.

Master of Arts with Distinction. English Literature. California State University, Northridge. Spring 2004.

Bachelor of Arts. English Literature. California State University, Northridge. Spring 2001.

Fellowships and Awards

Nominee, University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers. 2022.

UT Dallas President’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Instruction. 2020.

Nominee, UT Dallas President’s Award for Excellence in Online Instruction. 2021.

Nominee, UT Dallas President’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Instruction. 2021.

UT Dallas Special Faculty Development Assignment. 2016 – 2017.

Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award. University of Texas System. 2016.

UT Dallas School of ATEC Faculty Fellowship. Fall 2015 – Spring 2016.

UT Dallas Intercultural Excellence and Inclusive Teaching Award. May 2013.

Graduate Opportunity Fellowship. UCSB. Fall 2009–Spring 2010.

Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. UCSB. Winter 2009.

Brython Davis Endowment Graduate Fellowship. UCSB. Fall 2007, Fall 2008.

Digital Humanities Summer Institute Tuition Scholarship. 2007.

University of California, Santa Barbara Department of English Fellow. Fall 2004–Spring 2005.

Mitchell Marcus Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student in English. CSUN. June 2004.

Grants

“The Migrant Steps Project.” (Co-PI Juan Llamas-Rodriguez). NEH Digital Projects for the Public Prototyping Grant. $100,000. Submitted June 2022. Under Review. 

“The Migrant Steps Project.” (Co-PI Juan Llamas-Rodriguez). UT Dallas Proposal Resubmission Grant. $25,000. June 2021 – Dec 2022.

“Encoding Steps, Decoding Stories.” (Co-PI Juan Llamas-Rodriguez). UT Dallas Workshop Grant. $3,000. April 2022.

Publications, Design, and Curation

Works in Process

The Migrant Steps Project. With Juan Llamas-Rodriguez and multiple student collaborators. Mobile app connected via fitness tracker data to an archive of art and literature about walking as an act of migration. Currently supported by UT Dallas seed funding. May 2020 – present.

Viral Structures in Literature and Digital Media: Networked Counterpublics and Participatory Capitalism. Book manuscript. Under contract with Routledge, Research in Digital Humanities.

Fashioning Makers and Counterpublics: Critical Making and Public Humanities. Book manuscript. Under contract with the University of Iowa Press, Humanities and Public Life series.

“Ethical Spectatorship: Black Ribbon, Black Lives, and Data Visceralization.” Journal article in preparation for submission to Digital Humanities Quarterly.

“The Migrant Steps Project.” (with Juan Llamas-Rodriguez). Project snapshot in preparation for Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures Special Issue on Latinx Digital Humanities.

Publications

“Stitch n’ Glitch: Teetering on the “/”.” (with Hong-An Wu, Wendy Sung, and Juan Llamas-Rodriguez). Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, vol. 21, Buzzademia: Scholarship in the Internet Vernacular, Fall 2019.

Danger, Jane Roe! Wearable Data Visualization as Feminist Praxis. Feminist Debates in Digital Humanities, edited by Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Forthcoming.

“Weaving Critical Theory, Fashion, Electronics, and Makerspaces in Learning: Fashioning Circuits A Case Study.” (with Laura Pasquini and Jessica Knott). Interactive Learning Environments. 15 Nov. 2018.

“Wearable Interfaces, Networked Bodies, and Feminist Sleeper Agents.” Invited and peer reviewed contribution to The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities. New York: Routledge, 2018.

“Parody Detection: An Annotation, Feature Construction, and Classification Approach to the Web of Parody” (with Joshua Weese, William Hsu, and Jessica C. Murphy). Data Analytics in Digital Humanities. IGI Springer, 2017.

“Making Space: Feminist DH and a Room of One’s Own.” Global Outlook: Digital Humanities Minimal Computing Working Group. 18 February 2017.

“Sublime Latency and Viral Premediation.” Invited and peer reviewed contribution to a Special Cluster on Digital and Ecological Poetics. electronic book review. 05 July 2015.

“The Work of iamamiwhoami in the Age of Networked Transmission.” Peer reviewed article in The Projector: A Journal on Film, Media, and Culture 15.1 (Winter 2015): 8-46.

“Gender Representation.” Invited and peer reviewed contribution to The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2014.

“Race and Ethnicity.” Invited and peer reviewed contribution to The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2014.

“What do They Really Think? Students’ Perceptions on Using Facebook and Twitter in Formal Higher Education Learning.” (with Jenny Wakefield, Scott J. Warren, Metta Alsobrook). Peer reviewed article in The International Journal of Social Media and Interactive Learning Environments. 1.4 (2013): 330 – 54.

“Learning and Teaching as Communicative Actions: A Case of Twitter as Educational Tool.” (with Jenny Wakefield, Scott J. Warren, Metta Alsobrook). Peer reviewed chapter in Cases on Educational Technology Implementation for Facilitating Learning. March 2013.

“In Media Res in the Crowdsourced Classroom.” Invited contribution to In Media Res. March 17, 2013.

“Get in My Vagina! Language and Power in Online Comedy Videos.” In Media Res. January 16, 2013.

“The Multiply Mediated Voice of the America’s Next Top Model All-Star.” (with graduate students Brianni Nelson, Amy Pickup, Tameka Reeves, Mattie Tanner). In Media Res. January 9, 2012.

“Social Book Cataloging: Humanizing Databases.” With Renee Hudson. The Transliteracies Project. August 2009.

Additional Online Writing

Fashioning Circuits. Project leader, editor, and contributor. A research and public Humanities project blog on critical making and social justice. Fall 2011 – present. http://fashioningcircuits.com

The Spiral Dance. Editor and contributor. The blog examines gender in our contemporary media landscape, including social media, emerging platforms and devices, and representations of gender in popular culture. Spring 2011 – 2016. http://thespiraldance.wordpress.com

Design

“Placemats.” (with Fashioning Circuits students). Participatory place-based woven data visualizations. Submitted to HASTAC 2023. New York, NY. June 2023.

“Handwashing Karaoke.” (with Atanur Andic and Yueh-Jung Lee). Mixed media interactive sound project. Exhibited in the Edith O’Donnell Arts and Technology Building. UT Dallas. Richardson, TX. January 2022 – present.

“@hooksbot.” A Twitterbot that tweets a bell hooks quote each time J.P. Morgan Chase’s stock rises one percent. Twitter. October 2015 – present.

“Soft Censorship.” Mixed media embroidery. Exhibited at HASTAC 2019. Vancouver, BC. May 2019.

“Stitch n’ Glitch.” Mixed media and interactive installation. In collaboration with SP&CE Media, Feminist Maker Space, and Studio for Mediating Play. Exhibited at ATEC Celebration. October 2018.

“Black Ribbon for Mourning.” With Dale MacDonald and Jessica C. Murphy. A wearable, arduino-based data visceralization project. Exhibited at HASTAC 2017. Orlando, FL. November 2017.

“Danger, Jane Roe!” A wearable, arduino-based, data visualization. Exhibited at Digital Frontiers 2015. Dallas, TX. September 2015.

“In the Beginning was the Word: A Visualization of the Page as Interface.” With Bill Warner. An animation that traces the historical page as interface. The Transliteracies Project. March 2008.

“Agrippa: Simulation of Dennis Ashbaugh’s Fading Ink Concept.” Simulation of an unrealized concept from Agrippa: A Book of the Dead by William Gibson and Dennis Ashbaugh. The Agrippa Files. October 2005.

“Pages from Agrippa.” Animated interface to online photos of Agrippa. The Agrippa Files. August 2005.

The Agrippa Files Logo. Website logo for The Agrippa Files. August 2005.

Producing, Curating, and Editing

“Buzzademia: Scholarship in the Internet Vernacular.” Co-Editor (with Anne Cong-Huyen and Mark Marino). Special issue of Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures. Vol. 21, Fall 2019.

Words Matter. Group art installation. HASTAC 2019 Media Arts Show. Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory. May 2019. 

“Stitch n’ Glitch.” Creative Director and Producer. In collaboration with SP&CE Media, Feminist MakerSpace, and Studio for Mediating Play. Exhibited at ATEC Celebration. October 2018.

The Wearable and Tangible Possible Worlds of DH. Group art installation. HASTAC 2017. Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory. November 2017.

Additional Projects

Fashioning Circuits Co-founder, project leader, site designer, community liaison. Fall 2011 – present.

A public Humanities project (conducted with students) that investigates wearable technology, physical computing, computational craft, domestic technologies, soft activism, and so forth. Activities include a blog, installations and participatory art, university coursework, critical making workshops on campus and in the community.

Feminist Maker Space Founder, workshop leader, organizer, site designer. Fall 2015 – present.

The Feminist Maker Space is an inclusive creative space in which maker culture is situated in relation to a long and diverse history of craft and communal work. We are additionally committed to learning from the past and from one another.

Social Practice and Community Engagement (SP&CE) Media Lab. Co-founder. Fall 2016 – March 2020.

Fosters knowledge exchange among diverse communities, creates visibility for existing projects that focus on social awareness and community engagement, and facilitates the development of new community-focused projects and collaborations within Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication and with other disciplines at UT Dallas.

Feminist Research Collective. Co-founder, co-organizer. Fall 2014 – March 2020.

A collective of faculty who organize for the purpose of sharing research and formulating feminist responses to the academy.

Digital Textuality Tools Repository Project leader, site designer, editor. Spring 2011 – Spring 2015.

A publicly available student-produced repository of reviews of tools for producing digital text, image, sound, animation, video, and data visualization.

The Transliteracies Project Project coordinator, media designer, lead research assistant. Fall 2005 – Spring 2008.

A University of California Multi-campus Research Group to study the technological, social, and cultural practices of online reading. I worked as Coordinator for the entire project as well as Lead RA with the New Reading Interfaces Group and Project Planner and Designer with the History of Reading Group.

Transcriptions Studio Research assistant, project leader. Fall 2005 – Spring 2008.

A University of California, Santa Barbara Department of English research center. I worked as a Research Assistant managing the lab, which included planning and publicity for training and lectures. In addition, I founded the annual Transcriptions Multimedia Research Slam event.

The Agrippa Files: An Online Archive of the book of the dead General editor, media designer, image editor. Summer – Fall 2005.

A research project to compile resources related to the scarcely-available multimedia artwork, Agrippa (a book of the dead) by William Gibson and Dennis Ashbaugh.

Citations of Design and Projects in Scholarly Works

Sayers, Jentery, ed. Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities. Debates in Digital Humanities series. University of Minnesota Press, 2018. (Fashioning Circuits)

“Campus Carry Doorbell Wreath.” (as SPaCE Media Lab, in collaboration). Disobedient Electronics. Edited by Garnet Hertz. 2017. (Feminist Maker Space)

D’Ignazio, Catherine and Lauren F. Klein. “Feminist Data Visualization.” Proceedings from the Workshop on Visualization for Digital Humanities. IEEE VIS Conference. 2016. (Danger, Jane Roe!)

Sayers, Jentery, Devon Elliott, Kari Kraus, Bethany Nowviskie, and William J. Turkel. “Between Bits and Atoms: Physical Computing and Desktop Fabrication in the Humanities.” A New Companion to the Digital Humanities. 2nd edition. Eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Wiley, 2015. (Fashioning Circuits)

Selected Talks and Presentations

Invited Talks and Workshops

“Data Visceralization as ‘Other Approach’.” Guest lecture for Alternative Data Cultures graduate seminar. CUNY Graduate Center. May 2021. 

“Wearable Interfaces, Networked Bodies, and Feminist Sleeper Agents.” Keynote talk for CUNY Digital Initiatives Shorts. CUNY Graduate Center. November 2018.

“Wearable Digital Poetics.” Invited workshop. CUNY Graduate Center. November 2018.

“Fashioning Circuits.” Invited talk for Understanding Diverse and Inclusive Communities. CUNY Queens. November 2018.

“Fashioning Humanist Inquiry.” Invited workshop for Digital Bridges for Humanistic Inquiry. The University of Iowa. April 2016. 

“Viral Anxieties in Arts and Antiviral Technology.” Invited as Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology Distinguished Faculty Lecture.. The University of Texas at Dallas. October 2015.

“Wearable Media and the Threads of Digital Literacy.” Invited talk at Richland College. Digital Media Speaker Series. April 2014.

“Juridic Power, Discursive Erasure, and Viral Videos about Vaginas.” Invited talk at Values in the Science and Practice of Medicine. Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology. May 2013.

“Moving the Field Forward: Privileged Places and Inclusive Spaces.” Invited talk at Media Places 2012. The Peter Wallenberg Foundation and the Universities of Umeå, Lund, and Stanford. December 2012.

“Digital Humanities Strategies in the Classroom: Crowdsourcing and Collaboration.” Invited talkat DFW Area Digital Humanities Colloquium. February 2013.

“A Media Ecological Approach to the Digital Humanities.” Invited talk in Distinguished Visiting Speakers Series. California State University, Northridge. November 2011.

Conference Presentations

“Data Visceralization and the Politics of Walking in Migrant Narratives.” (with Juan Llamas-Rodriguez). Accepted at 4S 2022. The Society for the Social Study of Science. December 2022.

“On Unmeasurability and Vitality: Disrupting Spatial Order with Digital Practice.” Roundtable. Accepted at ASA 2022. American Studies Association. November 2022.  

“Critical and Creative Practices for Enacting Data Justice.” Workshop. ASA 2021. American Studies Association. October 2021.

“Media Frameworks for Enacting Data Justice” Roundtable. SCMS 2020. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. April 2020. Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

“Black Ribbon for Mourning.” Two Part panel on Data and/is Performance. ASA 2019. American Studies Association. November 2019.

“Critical Maker Faire.” Workshop organizer and co-leader. HASTAC 2019. Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory. May 2019.

“The Wearable and Tangible Worlds of DH Workshop.” Workshop organizer and co-leader. HASTAC 2017. Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory. November 2017.

“Making Space: Feminist DH and a Room of One’s Own.” MLA 2017. Modern Language Association. January 2017.

“Infection Blocked! Deterritorializing the Viral.” MLA 2017. Modern Language Association. January 2017.

“Radicalizing Curriculum and Decolonizing the Canon.” Roundtable participant. NWSA16. National Women’s Studies Association. November 2016.

“Liberating the Cervix: The Biopolitics of DIY Gynecology.” Panel co-organizer and presenter. NWSA16. National Women’s Studies Association. November 2016.

“Creating Disciplines, Disciplining Creativity.” Panel co-organizer and roundtable participant. SLSA 16. Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. November 2016.

“Critical Design, Deviant Critique.” Roundtable participant. HASTAC 2016. Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory. May 2016.

“Epidemiological Maps as Narrating Contagion and Premediating Risk.” Panel co-organizer and presenter. MLA 2016. Modern Language Association. January 2016.

Danger, Jane Roe! Embodied Data Visualization as Feminist Critique.” MLA 2016. Modern Language Association. January 2016.

“Response to ‘Affective Industries: Managing Security, Play, and Healing’.” Invited Respondent. NWSA15. National Women’s Studies Association. November 2015.

“Get in My Vagina! Reproductive Legislation and Speculative Disruption.” NWSA14. National Women’s Studies Association. November 2014.

“The Anxiety of Amateurism and the Pleasures of Participation in Fashioning Circuits.” Panel organizer and presenter. ASA14. American Studies Association. November 2014.

“Fashioning Alternative Publics: Student Maker Spaces.” Panel co-organizer and presenter, MLA 2014. Modern Language Association. January 2014.

“Fashioning Makers with Archives and Arduinos in the Classroom.” Panel organizer and presenter, with graduate and undergraduate students. Digital Frontiers 2013. University of North Texas. September 2013.

 “Is Essentialism Mobile? Gender Binaries in the App Store.” Girls and Digital Culture. King’s College London. September 2012.

“The Work of the Viral Structure in the Age of Networked Transmission.” MLA 2012. Modern Language Association. January 2012.

 “A Media Ecological Approach to the Digital Humanities.” MLA 2011.  Modern Language Association.  January 2011.

“Social Book Catalogs and Reading: Shifting Paradigms, Humanizing Databases.” (with Renee Hudson) MLA 2011. Modern Language Association. January 2011.

“Decoding the Viral: A Matrix for Evaluating Viral Video.” SLSA ’09: Decodings. Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. November 2009.

“Outlaw Code: The Viral in Koji Suzuki’s Ring Trilogy.” SLSA ’07:Code. Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. November 2007.

“Cognition and the Eclecticism of Interfaces.” Transliteracies New Reading Interface Symposium. The Transliteracies Project. May 2007.

“Looking Over One’s Shoulder: Nineteenth-Century Specters in Twentieth Century Contexts.” Up-to-Date with a Vengeance: Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Media. Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies. April 2007.

“Technological Determinism and Textual Ecologies: The Graphic Novel in the LCI Classroom.” Comic Arts Conference. Comic-con International. July 2006.

“Mapping Ideology: The Country and the City in Garth Nix’ Old Kingdom Trilogy.” MLA 2005. Modern Language Association. December 2005.

Selected Teaching Experience

Undergraduate

Critical Media Studies Lab: Public Humanities. Scheduled for Spring 2023.
Race, Technology, and Media. Fall 2021.
Honors Reading: Critical Data Cultures. Spring 2022.
Mediated Textuality: Data Storytelling. Spring 2021.
Critical Making. Spring 2020.
Digital Writing. Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013. Spring 2015.
Topics in EMAC: Viral Media. Fall 2011, Fall 2014.
Fashioning Circuits. Fall 2013, Fall 2014.
The Digital Society: Embodied Identity in Digital Society. Fall 2012.
Introduction to Electronic and Digital Communication. Fall 2010. Fall 2012.
Approaches to Communication. Spring 2012.

Graduate

Special Topics: Feminist Science and Technology Studies. Fall 2022.
Critical Making. Spring 2019. Spring 2022.
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication. Fall 2017. Fall 2018. Fall 2019. Fall 2020. Fall 2021.
Viral Media. Spring 2012, Fall 2015.
Digital Textuality. Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015.
Fashioning Circuits. Fall 2014.
Introduction to the Study of Emerging Media and Communication. Fall 2010, Spring 2014.
Special Topics in Emergent Communication: Embodied Identity. Fall 2012.

Supervision and Advising

University of Texas at Dallas. Spring 2011 – Fall 2022.
5 Dissertation chair; 3 Dissertation co-chair; 13 PhD Field exam committees; 1 PhM exam committee; 2 MA Thesis chair; 30 MA Capstones; 15 BA Honors Theses; 24 BA Capstones.

Leadership and Academic Service

To the Profession

  • University of Michigan Press. Digital Culture Series Editorial Board. Spring 2021 – present.
  • Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures. Editorial Board. Spring 2021 – present.
  • Digital Humanities Quarterly. Peer Reviewer. Fall 2009 – present.
  • Ada: Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology. Peer Reviewer. Spring 2016 – present.
  • HASTAC 2020 Local Conference Chair. 2019 – 2021. Canceled due to COVID-19.
  • Public: A Journal of Imagining America. Spring 2017.
  • Routledge. Peer Reviewer. 2014, 2017.
  • Conference co-chair. 2015 Digital Frontiers conference. Fall 2014 – Fall 2015.
  • Leonardo. Peer Reviewer. 2013, 2015.

At The University of Texas at Dallas

Diversity Committees and Service

  • Mentor, First Generation Living Learning Community. Fall 2018 – present.
  • Mentor, Undergraduate Success Scholars. Fall 2017 – present.
  • Chair, ATEC Social Justice Working Group. Summer 2020 – Fall 2021.
  • Member, University Committee for the Support of Diversity and Equity. Fall 2013 – Spring 2017.
  • Co-founder and Media Advisor, Feminist Research Collective. Spring 2013 – March 2020.
  • Founder and Director, Feminist Maker Space. Fall 2015 – present.
  • Diversity Month Lecture. Fashion and the Threads of Digital Literacy. October 2013.
  • Chair, Diversity and Inclusion sub-committee of the STEAM Working Group. Fall 2012 – Spring 2013.
  • Facilitator, Safe Zone Advanced Dialogue. Spring 2012, Spring 2013.
  • Safe Zone Ally Training. Spring 2011.

University Committees and Service

  • Member, Committee on Core Curriculum. Fall 2022 – Present.
  • Member, Scholarship Committee. Fall 2017 – Summer 2022.
  • Member, Graduate Council. Fall 2017 – Summer 2021.
  • Member, The Exley Advisory Board, UTD Undergraduate Research Journal. Spring 2014 – Fall 2017.
  • Member, Faculty advisory board, Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology. 2013 – 2016.

Area / Program Committees

  • Member, Assessment Committee. Fall 2022 – present.
  • Chair, CMS Essay Contest Jury, Spring 2022.
  • Member, Emerging Media Graduate Admissions Committee. Fall 2010 – Spring 2017.
  • Member, Curriculum Design and Program Development Committee. Fall 2010 – present.

Hiring Committees

  • Chair, Visiting Assistant Professor, Critical Media Studies. 2022.
  • Chair, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Critical Media Studies. 2022.
  • Member, Director, Center for Teaching and Learning. 2022.
  • Member, Assistant Professor, ATEC Design & Creative Practice. 2021.
  • Member, Assistant Professor, ATEC Animation Studies. 2020.
  • Chair, Associate Professor, Critical Media Studies. 2018.
  • Member, Dean, UT Dallas Graduate Studies. 2018.
  • Member, Dean, School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication. 2015-2016.
  • Member, Associate Professor, Emerging Media and Communication. 2015 – 2016. 2014 – 2015. 2013 – 2014.
  • Member, Assistant Professor, Emerging Media and Communication. 2015 – 2016. 2014 – 2015. 2013 – 2014; 2011 – 2012.
  • Member, Visiting Assistant Professor, Emerging Media and Communication. 2011.

School Committees

  • Member, Administrative Committee. Fall 2017 – present.
  • Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee. Fall 2017 – Summer 2022.
  • Member, Committee on Effective Teaching. Fall 2017 – Summer 2022.
  • Chair, Graduate Studies Committee. Fall 2017 – Summer 2021.
  • Chair, DFW Interactive Marketing Association Scholarship Committee. Fall 2012 – Spring 2015; Member, Fall 2010 – Spring 2011.
  • Member, Arts and Humanities Library and Teaching Resources Committee. Fall 2013 – Spring 2015.
  • Member, Arts and Technology Scholarship Committee. Spring 2011 – Fall 2014.
  • Member, Arts and Humanities Undergraduate Studies Task Force. Fall 2012 – Spring 2013.
  • Member, TA Pedagogy Committee, School of ATEC, 2014 – 2015.
  • Member, Undergraduate Studies Task Force, School of A&H, 2012 – 2013.
  • Member, Science Technology Engineering Arts and Math (STEAM) Committee, 2012 – 2013.
  • Member, Committee on Connections, School of A&H, 2012 – 2013.
  • Co-organizer and presenter, “Perspectives on Humanities Research” colloquia series, 2010 – 2011.

For Students

  • Faculty advisor, ATEC Graduate Student Advisory Council, Fall 2017 – August 2021.
  • Faculty advisor, Intersectional Feminist Alliance, UTD Student Org, 2012 – 2017.
  • Faculty advisor, Crochet Club, UTD Student Organization, faculty advisor, 2012 – 2014.
  • Moderator, RAW Grad Conference, School of Arts & Humanities, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016.
  • Judge, International Week “Passport to the World”, UTD, 2013, 2014.
  • Panelist, ATEC.Connect Path to Tenure, School of Arts and Humanities, February 2013.
  • Organizer and facilitator, Applying to Academic Conferences” student workshop, EMAC, 2012.
  • HASTAC graduate student scholar mentor, 2011 – 2012, 2013 – 2014.

Multiple Talks and Workshops for Community Outreach

Professional Organizations

American Studies Association
FemBot Collective
FemTechNet
Modern Language Association
National Women’s Studies Association
Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Languages and Computing Platforms

French. Reading knowledge.
Spanish. Developing knowledge.

Drupal, WordPress, and MediaWiki. Advanced experience.
HTML, CSS, Arduino, Adobe Flash, Photoshop, QuickTime Pro, FinalCut, Adobe Premiere, iMovie. Intermediate experience.
PHP, SQL, Github, Simile and Javascript. Rudimentary experience.

References

References are available upon request.

[1] There have been multiple re-organizations during my time at UT Dallas. Without transferring units, I have been in the Emerging Media and Communication Program (2010 – Summer 2017) which became the Critical Media Studies area of the Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication Program (Fall 2017 – present). These programs have been located within The School of Arts and Humanities (2010 – 2014), The School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication (2015 – Summer 2022), and the School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology (Fall 2022 – present).