Jeremy Douglass - Curriculum Vitae

Software Studies Initiative, CRCA

University of California San Diego

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Education:

Ph.D. in English, University of California, Santa Barbara 2007.

Dissertation: “Command Lines: Aesthetics and Technique in Interactive Fiction and New Media.” Chair: Alan Liu. Committee: Rita Raley, William Warner.

M.A. fields: Narrative and Literary Theory, American Literature after 1865, Anglophone Literatures.

B.A. in English, concentration in Writing, Pomona College 1999.

Thesis: “The Many Manuscripts of Pale Fire.” Frames the history of critical debate over the novel as a disagreement over which narrative frame constitutes the text.

Appointment:

Postdoctoral Researcher in Software Studies, CRCA/Calit2, University of California, Santa Diego 2007-08.

Publications:

“Enlightening Interactive Fiction: Andrew Plotkin’s Shade.” Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media. Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, eds. MIT Press. 2007. http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262083566. RTF http://jeremydouglass.com/cv/shade.rtf.

“Workplace is Mediaspace is Cityscape: an interview with Nick Montfort on Book and Volume.” The Iowa Review Web: Reconfiguring space and place in new media writing. 8.1 (2006). http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/mainpages/new/july06/july06_txt.html. PDF http://jeremydouglass.com/cv/montfort.pdf.

“Benchmark Fiction: A Framework for Comparative New Media Studies” with Christy Dena and Mark Marino. Proceedings of the Digital Arts and Culture Conference. (2005): 89-98.
PDF http://jeremydouglass.com/cv/benchmark.pdf.

Conference Papers and Presentations:

“Tag Clouds: Reading the Poetic Interface.” New Reading Interfaces session of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. MLA. Chicago, December 2007.

“Sculpting e-poetry in Fractal Space: ConTextTree.” Electronic Literature session of Committee on Information Technology. MLA. Chicago, December 2007.

“You Must Remember This: Passwords in Contemporary Computer Culture.” Memory, Memoir, and Madeleines: Remembering Things Past. Pomona College, April 2007.

“The Experience of Error: Frustration Aesthetics via False Affordances.” Workshop: The Theory and Practice of Experience Design. IT University of Copenhagen, December 2005. http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~mblythe/index_files/Page302.html.

“Benchmark Fiction.” Presented at “Digital Experience: Design, Aesthetics, Practice—Digital Arts and Culture 2005.” IT University of Copenhagen, December 2005. {Premiere international conference in digital arts and design.} http://www.itu.dk/dac2005/programAbstracts.htm#Douglass
Slides http://jeremydouglass.com/cv/benchmark2.pdf.

“Benchmark Fiction.” Round-Table: Discussion Group of the Consortium for Literature, Theory and Culture. UC Santa Barbara, November 2005. http://www.cltc.ucsb.edu/roundtables/roundtables.html.

“The Architecture of Disability: Alienation in Interactive Fiction Protagonists.” Presented at "Architectures of Power: Consortium for Literature Theory and Culture Graduate Conference.” UC Santa Barbara, May 2005. http://www.cltc.ucsb.edu/conferences/2005/architectures.html.
Slides http://jeremydouglass.com/cv/architecture.pdf.

“The Implied Code: The Riddle of Reading Interactive Fiction.” Presented at “(dis)junctions 2005: Theory Reloaded.” UC Riverside, April 2005. http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions2005/.
Slides http://jeremydouglass.com/cv/impliedcode.pdf.

“Humane Text, Markdown, and Reading Machines for our Digital Archives.” Presented at “Digital Retroaction: a Research Symposium.” UC Santa Barbara, September 2004. http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/conference/D_Retro/conference.html.

“Database Design for the English Department.” Co-presenter Rob Adlington. Presented at “Archive Cultures: Database Design for Online Collaboration 2001 Summer Institute.” UC Santa Barbara, June 2001. http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/institute.html.

Conferences Organized:

Organizing Chair: “Narr@tive: Digital Reading: University of California System Graduate Conference in Digital Culture.” Co-chaired with Jessica Pressman. Digital Cultures Multi-Campus Research Group at the Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles, March 2004. http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/gradconf.html. {Wrote CFP, secured funding, invited plenary speakers, vetted submissions, ran conference.}

Panel Chair: “Open Source Software.” Panel at “Copyright and the Networked Computer: A Stakeholder's Conference.” Digital Cultures Multi-Campus Research Group at the University of California Washington DC Center, November 2003. http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/conference/CNCSC/.

Organizer: “e(x)literature: Preservation, Archiving and Dissemination of Electronic Literature.” Chaired by Prof. William Warner. Electronic Literature Organization and Digital Cultures Multi-Campus Research Group at UC Santa Barbara, April 2003. http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/conference2003.html.

Organizer: “Entertainment Value.” Chaired by Prof. Alan Liu. Public Humanities Initiative at UCSB, May 2002. http://www.english.ucsb.edu/initiatives/public-humanities/events/entertainment_value/.

Organizer: “Interfacing Knowledge.” Chaired by Prof. William Warner. Digital Cultures Multi-Campus Research Group at the UC Santa Barbara, March 2002. http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/conference.asp.

Honors & Awards:

Outstanding Teaching Assistant 2004-05, UC Santa Barbara Department of English.

Teaching:

English Department, University of California at Santa Barbara:

Associate: English 10 LCI: Literation: Lists in Literature. Fall 2006. {Original course design in Literature and Cultures of Information.} http://english.ucsb.edu/courses-detail.asp?CourseID=1673.

Associate: English 10: Textropolis: Cities of Information. Winter 2005. {Original course design in Literature and Cultures of Information.} http://english.ucsb.edu/courses-detail.asp?CourseID=1155.

Teaching Assistant: English 10 LCI: Literature and the Culture of Information. Prof. Alan Liu, Fall 2004. (Designed and taught with supervision, pioneering course for the new undergraduate specialization in LCI.) http://english.ucsb.edu/courses-detail.asp?CourseID=1150.

Teaching Assistant: English 192: Science Fiction. Prof. James Donelan, Spring 2001.

Teaching Assistant: English 193: Detective Fiction. Prof. Chris Newfield, Fall 2000.

Writing Program, UC Santa Barbara

Instructor: Writing 2. Supervisor Madeleine Sorapure. Fall 2002 through Fall 2003.

English Department, Pomona College.

Co-Teacher: “Interdisciplinary 1: On Violence” with Prof. Arden Reed. Fall 1998.

Projects:

Code Artwork: “Gamer Textually: a visualization generator for McKenzie Wark’s Gamer Theory.” {Included designing context-free design grammar libraries for text artworks.} April 2007. http://www.futureofthebook.org/mckenziewark/gamertheory3.0/gamertextually

Software Artwork: “Eight Was Where It Ended.” {e-poetry series using software comparison “diff” tools to create stretchtexts and visual variations.} Medium Magazine v4 Winter 2005-06.

Academic Blog: "WRT: Writer Response Theory - Explorations in Digital Character Art." Co-founder, with Christy Dena and Mark Marino. UC Riverside. November 2004 on.{Authored some 100+ reviews and features on new media text art.} Archive http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/author/jdouglass/.

White Paper: “A Unified Departmental Web Database.” UC funded instructional development proposal, authored under the supervision of Prof. Alan Liu. UC Santa Barbara. June 2002.

Web Essay and Bibliography: “Self Organizing Maps: a tourist’s guide to neural network (re)presentation(s).” ENGL 236: Hyperliterature. Prof. Alan Liu. March 2001. http://www.english.ucsb.edu/grad/student-pages/jdouglass/coursework/hyperliterature/soms/.

Studyware: “Titanizer: Lists, Timelines, and Flashcards for Graduate Reading Exams.” Contents co-authored with the graduate students of the Department of English, UC Santa Barbara. 2001-2002. http://www.english.ucsb.edu/grad/student-pages/jdouglass/reading/.

Hypertext Essay: “Constrained Authorings: Anagrams, Matrices, Turing Tests, Fractals, Contraductions, Memex.” Co-author, with Elizabeth Freudenthal. Prof. Alan Liu's Hyperfictions Seminar. UC Santa Barbara, Fall 2000. http://www.english.ucsb.edu/grad/student-pages/jdouglass/coursework/ hyperliterature/constraint/fractals.html.

Research Assistance:

Database and web developer: “Voice of the Shuttle, a web site for humanities research.” Supervisor Prof. Alan Liu. UC Santa Barbara, Winter 2000-2006. http://vos.ucsb.edu/. {Used databases to redesign the link directory of popular humanities search engine VOS as a participatory knowledgebase}

Database and web developer: “Verso: a unified departmental database.” UC Santa Barbara, 2002-2005. http://english.ucsb.edu/. {designed a web database/portal for integrated faculty and project profiles, course websites and listings, event calendars, etc.}

Research assistant: Digital Cultures Multi-campus Research Group. Supervisor William Warner. UC Santa Barbara. Winter 2002. http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/. {conference organizing and website resource development, taught workshops in hypertext essay writing}

Research assistant: Transcriptions Project. Supervisor Prof. Alan Liu. UC Santa Barbara, Winter 2001. http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/. {conference organizing and website resource development, taught workshops in hypertext essay writing}

Guest Lectures and Events:

“Second Person: an evening on writing and gameplay.” with Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Mark Marino, and Jordan Mechner. The Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts, USC, April 2007.

“Game Design as Software as Text.” Rita Raley. INT94KW: Gaming Studies. UCSB, April 2007.

“Imagining interactivity.” Mark Marino. Writing 340: Computers in Society. March 2007.

“Time and the Digital Image: Blur, Jitter, Scan.” Arden Reed. Time and Art. Pomona College, March 2006.
Slides http://jeremydouglass.com/cv/timeart.pdf. Notes http://jeremydouglass.com/cv/timeartnotes.pdf.

“Interactive Fiction, second person, and simulated immediacy.” ENGL 147SS: From Scroll to Screen. Prof. Carol Braun Pasternack. UCSB, May 2006.

“One Choice at a Time: Hypertext and IF.” Elizabeth Freudenthal. English 10LCI. UCSB, October 2005.

“IF: From simulation, to game market, to art community.” ENGL 147SS: From Scroll to Screen. Prof. Carol Braun Pasternack. UCSB, May 2004.

“On Interactive Fiction.” Transcriptions Reading Group. UCSB, March 2004.
Reader http://jeremydouglass.com/cv/ifreader.rtf.

“A History of Interactive Fiction.” Prof. Rita Raley. English 146EN. UCSB, November 2003.

“Machine Literature: Constrained Authorings.” Co-lecturer Elizabeth Freudenthal. ENGL 25: Literature and the Culture of Information. Prof. Alan Liu. UCSB, March 2001.

Forthcoming:

“The Poetics of Passwords.” Save As: Digital Memories. Reading, Anne and Joanne Garde-Hansen eds. Palgrave, 2008.

Service:

Reviewer, International Journal of Information Technology, 2007. http://www.scs.org.sg/int.php

Conference advisory review: perthDAC 2007. http://www.beap.org/dac/advisory.htm.

Courseware hosting for graduate students. Provided 2004-2007. http://writerresponsetheory.org/moodle/.

Outside reviewer, 2003 NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. {expertise in self-organizing maps}

Graduate Representative to the Technology Committee. Elected 2001-2002. {Advised chair and faculty regarding development of departmental technological resources.}

Languages and Technologies:

Courseware experience – authoring/administering homebrew and open source course management systems.

Hypertext workshop experience – teaching hypertext essay writing, web page authoring, and design; directing online student projects.

Programming, scripting, code: SQL, ASP, PHP, HTML, CSS, VB, Java, C++, Inform, Context Free, etc.

Italian translation competency. Exam passed 2005.

Spanish translation competency. Exam passed 2001.

Professional Memberships:

Association of Internet Researchers	http://www.aoir.org/
Electronic Frontier Foundation	http://www.eff.org/
Electronic Literature Organization	http://eliterature.org/
MediaCommons	http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/
Modern Language Association	http://www.mla.org/
Rhizome	http://www.rhizome.org/

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