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HELEN J BURGESS
professional experience
Assistant Professor of English.
University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2007-current
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Assistant Professor, Digital Technology & Culture.
Washington State University Vancouver, 2003-2006
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Assistant Coordinator, Center for Literary Computing
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Department of English, West Virginia University, 1999-2000; also 2002.
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Department of English, West Virginia University, 1997-2000.
Editorial Assistant, The Series on Science and Culture.
University of Oklahoma Press, 1997-2000
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Tutor, English Language Institute.
Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), 1996-1997.
education
PhD in English, West Virginia University 2003.
Dissertation: "Highways of the Mind: the Haunting of the Superhighway from the World's
Fair to the World Wide Web. Multimedia format.
MA(Dist.) in English Language & Literature, Victoria University Of Wellington, 1997.
Thesis: "'A Problem of Coding': Electronic Subjectivity in Cybernetic Societies."
BA(Hons)(I) in English Literature. Victoria University Of Wellington 1994.
research interests
Rhetorics of new media, digital composition, interactive media development, copyright &
information ownership, culture & technology, electronic literature, urban studies, science
fiction studies.
technical proficiencies
XHTML/CSS, PHP/MySQL, XML/XSL/TEI, Unix.
Adobe Director, Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver.
Content management: Joomla, Drupal, Silverstripe.
Courseware:
Spring 2011 research leave awarded by the UMBC College of Arts, Humanities and Social
Sciences to support development of project Futurama, Autogeddon: Highways of the Mind from
the World's Fair to the World Wide Web.
Kaufmann/Faculty Innovation Grant. 2008.
$2,000 awarded by the Alex Brown Center for Entrepreneurship for development of
Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures infrastructure at UMBC.
Summer Faculty Fellowship. 2008.
$6000 awarded to conduct research for project digital/critical: New Media Scholarship in
the Humanities.
Education Enhancement Grant Award. 2005.
$38,370 awarded by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center to authors to support
development of interdisciplinary DVD-Rom entitled Reimagining Biocommerce: Owning Body
Parts and Information.
Electronic Dissertation grant.
West Virginia University, Summer 2002. (to develop enhanced multimedia version of
dissertation).
Award for Outstanding Research.
Department of English, West Virginia University, April 2002.
Stephen F. Crocker Dissertation Fellowship.
West Virginia University, 2001-2002.
Award for Exemplary Service.
Center for Literary Computing, West Virginia University, 2000.
Meritorious Graduate Student Tuition Waiver.
West Virginia University, 2000-2001.
Jackson Family Doctoral Fellowship.
West Virginia University, 1997-2000.
professional activities
Editor. Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures.
Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University. Electronic journal. ISSN 1555-9351.
Technical Editor & Editorial Board. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge
Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University. Electronic journal. ISSN 1555-9998.
Series Editor. Mariner 10 Multimedia Series, University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001-2010.
Consulting Scholar,Humanities Washington/Smithsonian Institute.
Consultant for the Smithsonian Museum travelling exhibition, "Yesterday's Tomorrows,"
2003-2005.
conference presentations
Promotion and tenure at different institutions. (Panelist).
Preparing Future Faculty, West Virginia University, May 11, 2011.
How to Read an Electric Poem.
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2009.
Futurama Autogeddon.
Session on Digital Media, MLA/ADE Summer Seminar East, Morgantown, WV, Jun. 2008.
re_critique.
Codework: Exploring Relations Between Creative Writing Practices and Software
Engineering. NSF Workshop. Morgantown, WV, Apr. 2008.
Steal This Multimedia: Information Ownership and the Anxiety of Genre.
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, Portland, ME, Nov. 2007.
Selling the Superhighways: A Future History.
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, New York, NY, Nov. 2006. With
Jeanne Hamming, Centenary College of Louisiana.
Show Me Your BIOS: Technology, Biology and Open Source Media.
BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media Symposium. Morgantown, WV, Sept. 2006.
Whatever Happened to my MOO?
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Chicago, IL, Apr. 2006.
Intimate Circuits.
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, Chicago, IL, Nov. 2005.
Eliza, Travesty and the Man in the Elevator.
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, Chicago, IL, Nov. 2005.
New Media in the Academy.
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, Duke University, NC, Nov. 2004.
Imagining the Future, from the World s Fair to the Design for Dreaming.
Fourth Biennial Preserving the Historic Road in America Conference, Portland, OR, Apr.
2004.
Urban Spaces, Highway Spaces: Narrating the Superhighway.
Society for Literature and Science Conference, Austin, TX, Nov. 2003.
Imagining the Future.
Smithsonian/Museum on Main Street planning advisory meeting, Seattle, WA, Jun. 2003.
Red Planet: DVD Authoring.
West Virginia University Technology and Computing Fair, Morgantown, WV, 2002.
Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars: Interactive DVD-Rom
Technology.
With Robert Markley, Michelle Kendrick, Jeanne Hamming. Mars Society Fourth International
Convention, Stanford, CA, Aug. 2001.
Doing Multimedia on Mars.
English Department Graduate Student Colloquium, Morgantown, WV, Mar. 2000.
AppalachiaMOO Carnival.
Organizer, designer and host of an online carnival to premiere West Virginia University s
graphical MOO. Mar. 2000, online.
Multimedia on Mars: A DVD Project on Mars Exploration.
West Virginia Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, West Virginia Wesleyan College,
Buckhannon, WV, Nov. 1999. With Jeanne Hamming.
Mars: Interactive Technology and Interdisciplinary Education.
West Virginia University Research Horizons Poster Session, Morgantown, WV, Sep. 1999.
The Strange Corporeographies of Cyberspace.
English Department Graduate Student Colloquium, Morgantown, WV, 1999.
Legible Bodies: Reading Synners and Cyborgs.
Society for Literature and Science Conference, Gainesville, FL, Nov. 1998.
Queers in Space: Borg Fantasy and the Limitations of Slash.
Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Conference, Morgantown, WV, 1998.
Mars: A Scientific and Cultural History.
The Mars Society Convention, Bolder, CO, Aug. 1998, and the Society for Literature and
Science, Gainesville, FL, Nov. 1998. With Robert Markley, Michelle Kendrick and Catherine
Gouge.
Missing the Mind s Eye: the Cultural Anxiety of the X-Ray.
English Department Graduate Student Colloquium Morgantown, WV, 1998. Panelist in keynote
roundtable discussion.
courses taught
Texts and Contexts (English 300).
University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2009.
This class introduces students to theories and methods current in the study of writing
and meaning-making in several non-literary contexts: the workplace, the classroom, and
domestic space.
Seminar: Visual Literacy (English 442).
University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2008 and 2009.
Senior seminar on the relationship of visual design to narrative and meaning-making.
Combines interpretation of visual media, graphic novel analysis, and practical studio
sessions.
Theories of Communication and Technology (English 324).
University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2008 and 2009.
This class starts with the study of orality and early sign-making cultures, moves on to a
history of print culture, and ends with investigation into forms of electronic
communication.
New Media and Digital Literacies (English 385).
University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2009.
This class conbines new media theory and history with independent study projects where
students undertake a multimedia authoring project and keep a detailed process journal.
Seminar: The Culture of the Copy (English 493).
University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2007 and 2009.
Senior seminar on the history of copyright and its consequences for media communication
and authoring. Covers copyright of various media forms (print, music, film, software,
digital media) and the Creative Commons and Open Source movements.
Multimedia Authoring (English 387).
University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2007-2008.
Analysis and creation of web texts using XHTML and CSS. Students discuss web genres,
learn to write for the web, and work with a client.
Web Scripting (English 499).
Washington State University-Vancouver, 2005-2006.
This advanced class teaches principles of database-driven design, using the open-source
scripting languages PHP and mySQL. Designed and delivered online using Moodle, open source
courseware.
Computers In English (Engl 300).
Washington State University-Vancouver, 2006.
The theory and practice of writing and teaching in online and multimedia environments.
Delivered online using Blackboard courseware.
Digital Diversity (DTC/AmSt 475).
Washington State University-Vancouver, 2004.
Issues of race, class and gender representation and accessibility in digital
environments.
Multimedia Authoring (English/DTC 355).
Washington State University-Vancouver, 2003-2006.
Web authoring and hand coding with XHTML and CSS. Students discuss the different genres
of web sites, learn to write for the web, and experiment with layout, color, and
interactivity.
Usability and Interface Design (Engl/DTC 478).
Washington State University-Vancouver, 2003-2005.
User experience and human-computer interaction. Students analyze online and interactive
media, and work with a client to produce a usability report on a professional site.
New Communications Technologies (COM 420).
Washington State University-Vancouver, 2003-2004.
The cultural impact of digital technologies on issues such as copyright, privacy and
innovation. Electronic environments and hypertext.
Science Fiction and Fantasy (English 175).
West Virginia University, 1998-1999.
Literary approaches to science fiction, starting with early works such as Frankenstein
and ending with cyberpunk short stories.
Scientific and Technical Writing (English 208), Online.
West Virginia University, 1998.
First Year Composition (English 1).
West Virginia University, 1997-1998.
Writing English (Writ 101).
Victoria University of Wellington, 1996-1997.
academic service
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Chair, Ad Hoc Web Committee. University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2010-.
Chair, Department PR Committee, Department of English. 2009-.
Search Committee, Media & Communication Studies. 2008-9.
Honors Committee, Department of English. 2007-.
Student Assessment Committee, Department of English. 2007-9.
Teaching Assessment Committee, Department of English. 2007-9.
Washington State University Vancouver
Coordinator, Digital Technology and Culture Internship Program. 2003-2006.
e-Portfolio Committee. 2005-2006
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Search Committee,
Digital Technology and Culture. 2005-2006
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Campus Arts Committee.
2003-2006.
Search Committee, Technical & Professional Writing. 2005.
American Studies Committee on Digital Diversity. 2003-2004
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Search Committee, World/EthnicLiteratures. 2003-04
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Faculty Advisor, Digital Technology and Culture Club. 2003-2006
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Faculty Advisor, Students for Choice Club. 2004-2005.
professional memberships
Modern Language Association.
National Council of Teachers in English.
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts.
Science Fiction Research Association.
Electronic Literature Organization.
The Mars Society.
references
Lucille McCarthy
Professor, Department of English
Communication and Technology Track
Fine Arts 448, University of Maryland Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250
410-***-**** . abor0c@r.postjobfree.com
Craig SaperProfessor, Department of English/Department of Writing and Rhetoric
Texts and Technology Doctoral Program
CNH302, University of Central Florida
PO Box 161346, Orlando, FL 32816-1346
407-***-**** . abor0c@r.postjobfree.com E. Berry
Professor, Department of English
410 East Hall, Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403
419-***-**** . abor0c@r.postjobfree.com
Wendy Dasler Johnson
Associate Professor, Department of English
Washington State
University Vancouver
14024 NE Salmon Creek Avenue, Vancouver WA 98686
360-***-**** . abor0c@r.postjobfree.com
Phillip Thurtle
Associate Professor, Comparative History of Ideas
Padelford B102-A, University of Washington
PO Box 354300, Seattle WA 98195-4300
206-***-**** . abor0c@r.postjobfree.com
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