University Assistant
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Courses
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Curriculum Vitae
Multimedia
Student Work
elizabeth losh
director of academic programs sixth college
Elizabeth Losh
Director of Academic Programs, Sixth College
*** ****** ****on Hall
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0054
abo4qn@r.postjobfree.com
http://losh.ucsd.edu
Research Interests:
Digital Humanities; Digital Rhetoric; Electronic Literature; Digital Journalism;
Democracy and Media Culture; Critical Theory; Histories and Theories of Rhetoric; Software
Studies
Education
Ph.D English with Critical Theory Emphasis, September 1998, University of California,
Irvine
M.A. English, December 1993, University of California, Irvine
M.F.A. Creative Writing, June 1992, University of California, Irvine
A.B. English (Magna Cum Laude), June 1987, Harvard University
Books
Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War,
Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes (MIT Press, 2009)
The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University (in process)
Textbooks
Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Composition (with Jonathan Alexander, Bedford,
forthcoming)
"Utopian Pedagogies," Humanities and the Digital, ed. David Theo Goldberg (forthcoming)
The Myth of Democratizing Media: Software-Specific Production Cultures, Authorship and
Media (Routledge, forthcoming, 2013).
Channeling Obama: YouTube, Flickr, and the Social Media President, Texting Obama:
Politics, Poetics, Popular Culture (Comparative American Studies 10.2-3, forthcoming,
2013).
Hacktivism and the Humanities: Programming Protest in the Era of the Digital
University, Debates in the Digital Humanities (Minnesota, forthcoming, 2012)
Remixing Human Rights: Rethinking Civic Expression, Safety, Privacy and Consent in
Online and Mobile Video (with Sam Gregory), TWC Transformative Works and Cultures (under
review).
"Play, Things, Rules, and Information: Hybridized Learning in the Digital University,"
Leonardo Electronic Almanac (forthcoming)
YouTube Pedagogy: Finding Communities of Practice in a Distributed Learning World,
Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy. Ed. Trebor Scholz.
Institute for Distributed Cultures, 2011: 185-194.
Shooting for the Public: YouTube, Flickr, and the Mavi Marmara Shootings, Video Vortex
Reader II. Institute for Network Cultures, 2011: 283-292.
Institute for Multimedia Literacy
University of Southern California
September 9, 2008
Games with Publics: Creating Play Experiences that Foster Collective Action,
DigiPen Institute of Technology,
April 11, 2008.
Virtualpolitik: Fostering Electronic Collaboration in the S.P.I.D.E.R. Project
Center for Studies in Higher Education
University of California, Berkeley
November 18, 2004
Invited Panel Talks
Public Diplomacy in Virtual Worlds,
State of Play Conference, New York,
June 20, 2009.
Living Game Worlds 2007
Georgia Institute of Technology
March 29, 2007
Selling Us to Ourselves: Is Social Marketing Effective HIV Prevention?
New York State Department of Public Health
September 26, 2006
Videogames: Content and Responsibility
SIGGRAPH
2006Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston, MA
August 2, 2006The New Heteroglossia of Blogs and Wikis
Knowledge or Information? Blogs, Wikis, and Listservs
Humanitech and the U.C. Irvine Libraries,
University of California, Irvine
November 10, 2005Conference Presentations
Obama Online: Using the White House as an Exemplar,
Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA,
December 28, 2009.
"Hacktivism and the Humanities: Programming Protest in the Era of the Digital
University,"
Digital Humanities 2009, University of Maryland,
June 23, 2009.
Town Hall and Assessing Technology Objectives,
Computers and Writing 2009, U.C. Davis,
June 19 and 20, 2009.
"Putting the Classroom in the Computer: The Rhetoric of the Open Courseware Movement and
the Protests of Detractors,"
Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, LA
April 9, 2009
Composing for the Small Screen: Rhetorical Instruction and Online Video Publics,
Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA
March 2009. Mail Away: War correspondence at home and online,
New Media Caucus, College Art Association, Los Angeles,
February 27, 2009.
In Polite Company: Rules of Play in Five Facebook Games,
ACM Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, Yokohama, Japan,
December 2008.
Just War Philosophies and Theories of War Crimes in Multiplayer Games,"
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Pomona College
November 7, 2008.
TV for One: Teaching Writing in the Age of YouTube,"
The Future of Writing Conference, University of California, Irvine
November 7, 2008.
Taking It To the Streets: Civility, Resources, and Alternate Reality Games,
American Studies Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico,
October 17, 2008.
The Play s the Thing: The Arden Failure and the Future of the Serious Games Movement,
Meaningful Play, Michigan State University,
October 10, 2008. (Paper and Slides)
The Fourth Wall: Can Open Source Do Virtual Reality?
Computers and Writing, University of Georgia, Athens, GA,
May 23, 2008
"Hacktivism for the Masses: WikiScanner and the Northwest Boarding Pass Generator,"
Popular Culture Association Annual Conference
San Francisco
March 20, 2008
"Private Idahos: Can Second Life Save the Academy?,"
Learning and Research in Second Life Workshop
Vancouver, Canada
April 13 1996
Grants
Intel People and Practices Faculty grant, Summer 2009
NEH Vectors Summer Fellowship - Broadening the Digital Humanities, Summer 2009
"Learning Outcomes of the UCI Lower-Division GE Writing Requirement: the Capstone
Research Paper in WR 39C and Humanities 1C," Office of the Campus Writing Coordinator and
Division of Undergraduate Education, University of California, Irvine, Summer 2006
The Birth of the Virtual Clinic Humanities Center, University of California, Irvine,
Summer 2006 (P.I.)
Navigating the Physical and Digital Library, Instructional Improvement Initiatives,
University of California, Irvine, Summer 2005
Konglish, Spanglish, and Other Hybrid Englishes: Biliteracy, Epistolarity, and the
Development of Student Writing through Letters Home, International Center for Writing
and Translation, University of California, Irvine, 2003 (P.I.)
" One day, perhaps, my memory will be well-known because of my ignorance : The Narrative
of Second-Language Acquisition in the Writings of Olympe de Gouges," Humanities Center,
University of California, Irvine,Summer 2003
"A Longitudinal Study of Student Writing," Division of Undergraduate Education Research
Grant, University of California, Irvine, 2000
"Virtual Research II: Resources for Instructors," Instructional Resource Center and
Office of Academic Computing Joint Instructional Development Grant, University of
California, Irvine, 2000
"Virtual Research: Resources for Undergraduates," Division of Undergraduate Education
Instructional Development Grant, University of California, Irvine, 1999.
Humanities Graduate Research Grant, University of California, Irvine, 1991
Honors and Awards
John Lovas Memorial Award for Best Academic Weblog 2007
Award for Outstanding TA Professional Development and Commitment to Undergraduate
Education (TA Developer of the Year Award), University of California, Irvine, 2001
Humanities Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, 1992-1996Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in Creative Writing, University of California,
Irvine, 1991
Regents Fellowship in Creative Writing, University of California, Irvine, 1989-1990
Academic and Research Positions
University of California, Irvine: Writing Director, Humanities Core Course (Fall 1999 -
present)
University of California, Irvine: Postdoctoral Composition Specialist / Assistant Course
Director, Writing 39
C: Argument and Research (
Fall1998 - Summer 1999
)
University of California, Irvine: Lecturer (Summer 1998 - Spring 1999
)
University of California, Irvine: Teaching Assistant (Fall1990 - Spring 1998
)
University of California, Irvine: Research Assistant to Margot Norris (Summer1990) for
the "Modernist Eruptions" chapter in The Columbia History of the American Novel (1991)
Committee Work
UC Irvine Humanities Instructional Resources Committee (2006-present
)
UC Irvine Work Group on Classroom Environment and Facilities (
2003-2004
)
UC Teaching and Learning with Technology Advisory Board (2002-2005
)
WASC Reaccreditation Participant (2001
)
UC Executive Council of Writing Programs (
2001-present
)
Lower Division Writing Committee (
2000-2002)
UCI Arts and Humanities Ad Hoc Copyright Study Group
(
1999-2001
)
UC Irvine Campuswide Writing Board (1999-2002
)
Editorial Board, A Student Guide to Writing at UCI (1998-1999
)
Co-Chair, Textbooks Committee, Composition Program, Department of English (1998-1999)
"Revolutions" Conference Committee: introduced keynote speaker Marjorie Perloff (1997)
Graduate Representative to External Review Committee for Upper Division Writing (1997)
Press
Game Politics "Real Debates on Games"
Gamasutra "SIGGRAPH Game Violence Issues Tackled"
Dartmouth Web Teaching Case Study
UC TLtC: News and Events: Collaborative Innovations: New UC-Wide Partnerships Are
Transforming the Teaching and Learning Experiences
Interview Forum: Humanities and Technology, University of Vienna (NMGK: Neue Medien in
den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften)
Teaching Experience
Writing 139: Digital Rhetorics: Social Networks, Blogging, Online Video, and Virtual
Worlds (Fall 2008)
English 101 W: Digital Rhetoric: Social Media and Persuasive Games (Fall 2007)
"The War from the Web: Reading for Rhetoric in September 11 Documents on the Internet":
an interdisciplinary freshmen seminar designed to teach rhetorical analysis of primary
source documents on the World Wide Web. (Winter 2002)
Humanities Core: an interdisciplinary Core course designed to introduce students to
humanistic discourse and methodology with texts from literature, philosophy, history, and
visual studies.
(
Fall1997 - present) [Web Pages: Winter 2009, Winter 2008, Winter 2007,
Spring 2006, Winter 2006, Spring 2005, Winter 2005, Spring 2004, Winter 2004, Fall 2003,
Spring 2002, Winter 2002, Spring 2001, Winter 2001, Fall 2000, Spring 2000, Winter 2000,
Fall 1999]
Writing 39C: Argument and Research: taught advanced rhetorical and research skills to
lower division students working on individual writing projects.
(
Summer 1994, 1996, 1998)
English 102
D: Postwar Literature: a course for undergraduate majors on poetry and novels
after World War II. Delivered lectures on John Berryman and Philip Larkin. (Fall 1996)
Writing 139: Bodies and Borders (Advanced Expository Writing): an upper division
interdisciplinary writing course on literature and science in the twentieth century
(Winter, Spring 1995 and Winter, Spring 1997)
Writing 39A Pass: Fundamentals of Composition: basic writing for students generally with
second-language backgrounds (Fall 1991-Summer 1992, Fall 1994)
English 28C: Romance to Realism: an introductory survey course on the English novel from
Aphra Behn to Virginia Woolf. (Spring 1994)
Writing 39B: Expository Writing: a lower division writing course designed to teach
textual analysis and college writing skills. (Winter 1994)
English 28A: The Poetic Imagination: an introductory survey course on English Poetry from
Beowulf to Modernism. (Fall 1992)
Writing 30: The Art of Writing Poetry: a workshop for poetry writers (Fall 1990-Spring
1991)
Faculty Workshops:
Web Projects:
http://eee.uci.edu/programs/humcore/students/ (P.I.)
http://eee.uci.edu/programs/spider/ (co-founder)
http://www.sciwriter.org (co-founder)
http://www.virtualpolitik.net (weblog)
http://www.mediamanifesto.org (manifesto)
http://www.digitalrhetoric.org (about digital rhetoric)
Blogging
Sivacracy with Siva Vaidhyanathan and Ann Bartow
Osocio with Marc Van Gurp and others
Virtualpolitik
Languages:
French, German, and Japanese
Software:
After Effects, Audacity, Dreamweaver, Final Cut Pro, Flash (including ActionScript), Game
Maker, iMovie, Maya, Photoshop, Premiere, and Pro Tools
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