I currently teach as Associate Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington-Bothell. While here, I have witnessed tremendous growth of enrollment (since 2008, when I was hired, there has been a 160% increase in full time enrollments) and facilities. I have been part of setting the foundations for this growth: I have taught some of the first arts workshops and media production courses on this campus, and was involved in the creation and development of new areas and programs including Interdisciplinary Arts, Media and Communications Studies, Masters in Cultural Studies, MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics, and Interactive Media Design. My teaching, throughout my career, has been interdisciplinary, with primary attention to the intersection of media and literature. Because a lot of this teaching depends on technical resources, I have been involved with infrastructural development of media resources on all campuses where I have taught. In some cases, as with University of Washington and University of South Carolina, I have introduced new digital production technology, labs and studio spaces where there had previously been none. Syllabuses are not here, but available upon request.
COURSES TAUGHT
currently active courses
University of Washington-Bothell
Internet Poetry, Memes and Gifs (Fall 2018, UWB, IAS)
The Art of the Remix (twice a year: 2011-present, UWB, IAS)
Interdisciplinary Arts Core (frequently: 2009-present, UWB, IAS)
MFA Poetics Seminar: Writers’ Research (Winter 2019, UWB, MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics)
Experimental Writing (once a year: 2010-present, UWB, IAS)
other graduate teaching
University of Washington-Bothell
MFA Poetics Workshop: Processes of Thinking and Memory (frequently 2013-2018, UWB, MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics)
Graduate Seminar: Writing Through the Image (Fall 2011, University of Washington, Humanities and UWB, Cultural Studies Graduate Program)
Graduate Seminar: Sound Cultures (Fall 2009, University of Washington, Humanities and UWB, Cultural Studies Graduate Program)
other undergraduate teaching
University of Washington-Bothell
Engaging Literary Arts: Beats and Beyond (2014-17, UWB, IAS)
Postmodern Fiction Through Photoshop (Fall 2013, UWB, IAS)
Literature and Popular Genres: The Supernatural (2010-2013, UWB, IAS)
Creative Non-Fiction (Spring 2009, UWB, IAS)
Performance, Community, Identity and Everyday Life (Fall 2008 and Spring 2010, UWB, IAS)
Interactive Sound Design and Improvisation (Winter 2014, UWB, IMD)
Radio and Sound Art (Winter 2009, UWB, IAS)
Brown University
(Visiting Assistant Professor, Modern Culture and Media and Visual Art departments)
The Radiophonic and Radio (Fall 2006, Brown University, Modern Culture and Media)
Sound for Image (Spring 2007, Brown University, Modern Culture and Media)
New Genres: Everyday Life (Fall 2006, Brown University, Dept of Visual Art)
New Genres: Sound, Video, Multimedia (Spring 2007, Brown, Dept of Visual Art)
University of South Carolina
(Assistant Professor, Media Arts program, Art Department)
Making Experimental Media (Spring 2006, USC Dept of Art)
New Narrative Styles (Spring 2005, USC Dept of Art)
Tactical Media (independent study, Spring 2006, USC Dept of Art)
Introduction to Audio Art (3 times a year: 2002 to 2008, USC Dept of Art)
Advanced Audio Art (Once a year: 2002 to 2008, USC Dept of Art)
Advanced Sound for Media (Once a year: 2003 to 2008, USC Dept of Art)
Surveillance and Art (group independent study, Spring 2004, USC Dept of Art)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
(various departments, graduate instructor and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History)
Avant-Garde Film and Video (Fall 2001, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Dept of Art History)
New Narrative Styles (Fall 2001, UWM, Dept of Art History)
The Art of Noise: Radio, Sound and the Wireless Imagination. (Spring 1999, Spring 2001, UWM Dept of English)
Truth be Told: Working at the Boundaries of Fiction and Non-Fiction. (Summer 2001, Woodland Pattern Book Center)
Expanded Cinema, Advanced Television Studies, and Multimedia (Spring 2001, UWM Dept of English)
International Silent Cinema and the Avant-Garde (Fall 2000, UWM Dept of English)
Dark Comedy: The Politics of Laughter in Film and Literature (Fall 2000, UWM Dept of English)
Introduction to Television Studies (Fall 1998, Fall 1997, UWM, Dept of English)
Extreme Fiction: Terrorism, Anarchy and the Bomb, 1880-the present. (Fall 1997, UWM Dept of English)
Film History (Spring 1998, Spring 1997. TA for Patricia Mellencamp, UWM Dept of Art History)
Current Topics in Media Arts. (Spring 1999. TA for Rob Danielson. UWM Dept of Film)