Technical Technology
Resume:
Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D.
Department
of English
New York Institute of Technology
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Website: http://iris.nyit.edu/~klagrand
Education
Ph.D., English, University of California, Irvine, 1992
M.A., English, University of California, Irvine
B.A., cum laude, English and Economics, University of California, Davis
Professional Experience
Associate Professor of English, New York Institute of Technology,
2003-present
Assistant Professor of English, New York Institute of Technology, 1999-2003
Assistant Professor of English, Hofstra University, 1992-1999
Teaching Associate, University of California, Irvine 1987-1991
Adjunct Lecturer, Saddleback College, 1989-1992
Teaching Assistant, University of California, Irvine 1985-1987
Fields of Interest
Technology and Culture
Renaissance Literature and Science
Philosophy of Technology
Technical Communication
Technology and Teaching
Administrative Experience
Director, Technical Writing
Programs, NYIT: 2000-present
Director, Hofstra Writing Center: 1994-1998
Interim Director, Hofstra Writing Program: summer, 1994
Scholarship:
Book
Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern
Literature and Culture: Artificial Slaves. (Routledge: January, 2013)
A study of how representations of artificial servants in
pre-empirical literature and culture
reflect the promises and dangers of technological self-enhancement,
as understood at the time, and how
those reflections might resonate
with today s developments in intelligent technology.
Articles and Book Chapters
Review of the NYC
Silicon Alley TEDx Conference, Institute
for Ethics and Emerging Technology,
Ed. Kris Notaro,
ieet.org (Dec. 9, 2012).
Technology in Cross-Cultural Mythology: Western and Non-Western, Humanity and Technology: Critical Insights,
Ed. Carol Colatrella, Salem Press
(Sept. 28, 2012).
The
Mars Landing and Artificial Intelligence, UPI.com, United Press International,
Science section, subsection:
Technology/Outside View, Web (30 August, 2012).
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The Persistent Peril of the Artificial Slave, Science Fiction Studies
38.2 (2011): 232-252.
The Talking Brass Head as a Symbol of Dangerous Knowledge in Friar Bacon and
in Alphonsus, King of Aragon,
Literature
Criticism from 1400-1800, Detroit: Gale, 2011. pp. 37-45.
(republication)
Medieval and
Renaissance Androids: Presaging the Posthuman? CLCWeb:
Comparative
Literature and Culture. 12.3 (2010)
How
Aristotle's Politics Exhibits Ambivalence Toward Slavery, CALIPSO: Online journal of
the Long Island Philosophical
Society. 4.1 (2010):
How Has Offshoring Affected Technical Communication Departments? Sustainable Growth in
Technical and Scientific
Communication. Eds. Ann
Blakeslee and Jeff Grabill.
Proceedings of the
Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication Conference,
Oct. 2007, East Carolina University. CPTSC (2007): 66-69., Meeting
Challenges of the New Economy.
Eds. Janice Tovey and
Trish Capansky. Proceedings of the Council for Programs in Technical
and Scientific Communication Conference, Oct. 2006, San
Francisco State University.
CPTSC (2006): 31.
Different Campuses, Different Programs: Diversity or Fragmentation?"
Pathways to Diversity.
Ed. Jim Dubinsky. Proceedings
of the Council for Programs in Technical
and Scientific Communication Conference, Oct. 2004, Purdue
University.
CPTSC (2004): 32. http://www.cptsc.org/proceedings.html.
"The Question of Parity in Online vs. Face-to-Face
Technical Writing Programs."
Reaching Out: Incorporating the Borders
that Inscribe Us.
Ed. Ann Blakeslee. Proceedings of the Council for Programs in Technical
and Scientific Communication Conference, Oct. 2003, Clarkson
University. Potsdam, UT:
CPTSC (2004): 49-51.
"Digital
Images and Classical Persuasion." (see
sample of this article) in Eloquent Images:
Word and Image in the Age ofNew Media. Ed. Mary Hocks and Michelle Kendrick.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
"Terrorism on
the Web." Originally appeared in: Proceedings
of the Conference of the
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, Ed. Leslie
Fife. Oklahoma State
University: November, 2003. 772-783.
"Hyper-Textbooks." Complicating
Binaries: Exploring Tensions in Technical and Scientific
Communication. Ed.
Ann Blakeslee. Proceedings of the Council for
Programs in Technical
and Scientific Communication Conference, Oct. 2002, Utah State
University. Logan, UT:
CPTSC (2003): 60-62. http://www.cptsc.org/pro/2002.pdf
.
"Graphics, Design and Technical Communication: Exploring Disciplinary
Boundaries."
Managing Change and Growth in Technical
and Scientific Communication. Ed. Bruce Mayleth.
Proceedings of the Council for Programs in
Technical and Scientific Communication Conference,
Oct. 2001, Carnegie-Mellon University. Menomonie, WI: CPTSC, (2002): 40-43.
http://www.cptsc.org/pro/2001.pdf
.
"Nexus and Stage: Computer-Assisted Class Discussion and the First Year
English Course."
Computers and the Humanities 35 (2001): 351-59.
"Should We Develop Specialized Technical Writing Programs?" Models for Strategic Program
Development. Ed.
Bruce Mayleth. Proceedings
of the Council for Programs in Technical and
Scientific Communication Conference, Oct. 2000, U of
Wisconsin-Stout. Menomonie, WI:
CPTSC (2001): 9-13. http://www.cptsc.org/proceedings.html.
"Brasenose College's Brass Head and Greene's Friar
Bacon."
Notes & Queries 47.1
(2000): 48-50.
"The Talking Brass Head as a Symbol of Dangerous Knowledge in Friar
Bacon and in
Alphonsus, King of Aragon."
English Studies 80.5 (1999): 408-22. (see sample of this article)
"Splicing Ourselves
into the Machine: Electronic Communities, Systems Theory, and
Composition Studies." ERIC, March, 1998: ED 410
563.
"Using Electronic Discussion to Teach Literary Analysis."
Computers & Texts. 12
(1996): 11-13.
"Androgyny and
Linguistic Power in Gascoigne's The Steele Glas." Texas Studies in
Literature and Language 37 (1995): 344-61.
"Aporia and the Emptied Teacher: Deconstruction
and the Unraveling of (Con)Texts." College
Literature 18.2 (1991): 69-79.
"The `I-Thou' Relationship and the Montaignian
`Essai'." ERIC
April 1991: ED 325 854.
Media Projects/Publications
Professions and Eloquence, (Video production on writing in the
working world):
University of California, Irvine, Center for Instructional
Development, 1992
Streaming Internet version of Professions and Eloquence; re-edited to
focus on the technical professions, reformatted and shortened
at the NYIT Center for Technology Based Learning Systems,
2002; published on the NYIT English
Dept. Website: http://iris.nyit.edu/english/techwritcert.html
Invited Lectures and Keynote Speeches
Aristotle and the Roots of the Posthuman, NYIT,
NYIT School of Arts and Sciences
Faculty Lecture Series, February,
2012. (invited
speaker)
An Early Supporter of Online Interaction in the Classroom Turns Skeptical,
Conference of the Northeast Modern
Language Association, Rutgers University, April, 2011. (invited
speaker)
"Using Technology to Teach Shakespeare," Conference of the
Shakespeare Association
of America, San
Diego, CA, April 4-9, 2007. (invited speaker)
"Making Better Writers by Using Online Discussion," Vassar College
Dept. of English,
March 28, 2006. (invited, paid speaker)
"Visual Rhetoric and Information Design,"
New York Institute for Technology, February 8, 2005. (invited speaker)
"Medieval and Renaissance Androids: Precursors of the Posthuman?"
Conference on the Prehistory of the Posthuman,
Princeton University, June, 2003. (invited, keynote
speaker)
Technology and the Faustian Bargain, Muttontown
Universalist-Unitarian
Church, spring, 1996.
(invited speaker)
Conference Papers and Presentations
A Survey of Tools for Teaching with Technology, Conference of the Society
for Literature, Science, and the Arts,
Milwaukee, WI, Sept. 30, 2012.
Digital Enhancement and the Problem of Benevolence, Conference on Human
Enhancement, Emerging Technologies,
and Social Challenges, Dubrovnik,
Croatia, Sept. 12, 2012.
Aristotle and the Ancient Roots of the Posthuman,
Conference on Transforming
the Human (co-sponsored by NYIT),
Dublin, Ireland, Oct. 22, 2011.
"How Advisable are Advisory Boards for Academic
Programs?" Conference for
Programs in Technical and Scientific
Communication, James Madison University,
Harrisonburg, VA, Oct. 7, 2011.
Technology in Cross-Cultural Mythology: Western and Non-Western,
Conference of the Society for
Literature, Science, and the Arts,
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada,
September 24, 2011.
Food Poisoning and Death in Shakespeare s Circle, Conference
of the Society for Literature,
Science, and the Arts, Indianapolis, IN, October 29, 2010.
Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity as a Basis for
Programmatic Change, Conference for Programs in
Technical and Scientific
Communication, Boise, ID, October 1, 2010.
"How Aristotle's Politics Exhibits Ambivalence Toward
Slavery," Conference of the Long Island Philosophical
Society, Molloy College, Rockville
Center, NY, April 17, 2010.
"Cybernetics and Servitude: Decoding the Artificial Slave,"
Conference of the Society for Literature, Science
and the Arts, Atlanta, GA, November 5-8,
2009.
"International Collaboration: Adapting NYIT's Professional and
Technical Writing Degree for Use in China,"
Conference for Programs in Technical
and Scientific Communication, Aarhus, Denmark, August 19-21, 2009.
Networks, Function, and Form in Aristotle s Justification of Slavery,
Conference
of the Society for Literature,
Science and the Arts, Portland, ME, November 1-4, 2007.
How has Offshoring
Affected Technical Communication Departments?
Conference for Programs in
Technical and Scientific
Communication, Eastern Carolina University, October 11-13, 2007.
"Early Modern Androids as Symbols of Intellectual Rebellion,"
Conference of the Society for Literature,
Science, and the Arts, New York, NY, November 9-12, 2006.
"Globalization and Online Teamwork," Conference for Programs in
Technical and Scientific Communication,
San Francisco State University, October 12-14, 2006.
"Early Modern Androids and Scientific Ambition," Joint Conference of
the History of Science
Society and the Society for the History of Technology,
Minneapolis, November 3-6, 2005.
"Different Campuses, Different Programs: Diversity or Fragmentation?"
Conference
for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication,
Purdue University, October 7-10, 2004.
"Exploring the Blood-Screen Boundary: Virtual
Communities and Social Systems," Conference
of the American Culture Association, San Antonio, TX, April
7-10, 2004.
"Using Digital Documents as Hyper-Textbooks," Conference of the
Modern Language Association,
San Diego, CA, December 27-30, 2003.
"Alchemy's Androids and the Posthuman Cyborg:
Exploring Points of Contact" Conference
of
the Society for Literature and Science, Austin, TX, October
23-26, 2003.
"The Question of Parity in Online vs. Face-to-Face Technical Writing Programs" Conference for
Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Clarkson
University, October 3-5, 2003.
"Prospero's Supernatural Slave Network."
Seminar on Race, Gender and Science,
Conference of the Shakespeare Association of America,
Victoria, B.C.,
Canada: April, 2003.
Terrorism/Hypermedia/Text. Conference of the Society
for Literature and Science,
California Institute of Technology: October, 2002.
"Hyper-Textbooks." Conference of the
Council for Programs in Technical and
Scientific Communication, Utah State University: October,
2002.
"The Artificial Man in Renaissance Literature: A Modified Alchemical
Legend."
Conference of The Renaissance
Society of America, Scottsdale, AZ
April, 2002.
"Terrorism on the Web: The Battle for Hearts and Minds."
Conference of the Southwest Popular Culture Association,
Albuquerque, NM: February, 2002.
"Graphics, Design and Technical Communication: Exploring Disciplinary
Boundaries."
Conference of the Council for Programs in Technical and
Scientific Communication, Carnegie-Mellon University:
October, 2001.
"Promethean Ambition and Sixteenth-Century Accounts of
Artificial Humans." Conference
of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, New Orleans:
November, 2000.
"Should We Concentrate on Developing Specialized [Technical Writing]
Programs to
Fill Particular Niches?" Conference of the Council for
Programs in Technical and
Scientific Communication, University of Wisconsin-Stout: October,
2000.
"Images and Persuasion in Electronic Media."
Conference of the Society for Literature
and Science, Atlanta, GA: October, 2000.
"Intelligent Systems in Early Literature as a
Representation of the Social Anxiety Caused by
Scientific Paradigm Shifts." OMETECA Conference
on the Relationship between the
Sciences and Humanities, Cumana, Venezuela: July, 2000.
"Forging Servants and Bodily Extensions: Pre-Modern Visions of the
Automaton." Conference
of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Coral
Gables, FL: October, 1999.
"Bodiless Automaton, Brazen Scientist: Greene s Friar Bacon and the
Iconoclastic
Natural Philosopher," Conference of the
Society for Literature
and Science, Gainesville, Florida, 1998.
"The Image of the Talking Brass Head in Early Modern Legend and
Literature,"
Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, Bellingham, WA:
April, 1998.
"Splicing Ourselves into the Machine: Electronic Communities and Systems
Theory,"
Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Phoenix, AZ: March, 1997.
"The Evolution of Fear and Loathing in Literature about Automata,"
Conference of the
Society for Literature and Science, Atlanta, GA: October,
1996.
"Extending the Conversation: Strategies for Using 'Electronic Networks for
Interaction' in the Literature Class," Conference on
College Composition
and Communication, Milwaukee, WI: March, 1996.
"Prospero s Machine and the Anxiety of Agency," Conference of the
Society for
Literature and Science, Los Angeles, CA: November, 1995.
"Cyberspace, The Internet, and Early Modern Cultural Studies: Theoretical
Concerns,
Pragmatic Issues," Conference on Early Modern Cultural
Studies, Rochester, NY:
November, 1994.
"Jacques and the 'Green World' in As You Like
It," Hofstra Shakespeare Festival:
February, 1994.
"Appropriating Authority: The Speaker as Transvestite," Conference of
the Modern
Language Association, Toronto: December, 1993.
"The Mirror as Trope for Elizabethan Class Tension in Gascoigne's Steele
Glas,"
Conference on Early Modern Cultural Studies, Norman, OK:
October, 1993.
"`According to Art Though Not by Art:' Sidney's `Apology for Poetry' and
Courtly
Culture," Southland English Graduate Students'
Conference at U.C.L.A.: May, 1990
Work in Progress:
Food Poisoning and Death in Shakespeare s
Circle (article; supported by an Internal Grant from NYIT)
Grant application, with an international
consortium, to the European Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency
for a project on Ethics and Technology; total grant amount 3,850,000 Euros
Honors and Awards
Promoted to Fellow, Institute for Ethics and
Emerging Technology
An international think tank
(Jan. 2013)
Appointed Affliate Scholar, Institute for Ethics and
Emerging Technology
An international think tank (Oct. 2012)
NYIT/ISR Research Grant (spring and fall 2012)
To work on article concerning science and
literature
Honoree, The Annual Faculty Scholars Reception, May, 2010, 2011, 2012
NYIT-Old Westbury
NYIT/ISR Research Grant (spring and fall 2004)
To work on book manuscript
Princeton University Honorarium (summer 2003)
To give a lecture at Princeton University on early modern
representations of technology
NYIT/AAUP Research Grant (spring
2003)
To work on book manuscript
NYIT/NY State Virtual Learning Space Grant Participant (fall 2002)
To help develop online training site for NY State teachers
NYIT Center for Teaching and Learning with Technology Grant (2001-2002)
To develop Web Design/Web Communication curriculum
NYIT/New York State DAV Grant (2001)
To develop online course materials for Disabled Veterans
NYIT/AAUP Research Grant (2000-2001)
To work on "Artificial Slaves" book manuscript
Fellowship, Hofstra Center for Teaching Excellence (fall, 1997)
To develop a training course in computer-assisted instruction
for professors
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant (summer, 1995)
To participate in summer seminar at UCLA on computers and
English
Daedalus Corporation Software Grant (1993; renewed through 1996)
To develop computer-interactive writing course at Hofstra
University
Graduate Student Teacher of the Year, U.C. Irvine (1989):
One person selected annually of 300 English graduate
students
Honorarium, U.C.Irvine Instructional Development
Services(1991)
For conducting T.A. training seminars
Instructional Improvement Grant, U.C. Irvine (1991)
For production of Educational Video on Writing and the
Professional world
Humanities Research Grant, U.C. Irvine (Summer, 1990)
For archival work at the British Library
Teaching (note: all courses I teach are web-enhanced, and many are
taught online,
in computer labs or in "smart" classrooms for
distance-learning)
Computer-intensive, Composition Portion of Interdisciplinary Cluster on
Technology and Ethics
Faculty Seminar on Computer Assisted Instruction, summer 1998
Writing for the Web (computer intensive web design class; developed online and
face-to-face versions)
Interdisciplinary Senior Seminar: Strange Creations Intelligent Technology,
Ethics and Literature
(versions taught in "smart"
classroom and in distance-learning classroom)
Survey of Technical and Professional Document Production (online class)
Communication for the Health Professions (computer-intensive)
Computer-Based Composition: The Literary Essay (note: I devised this course)
Technical Writing (computer intensive, face-to-face version)
Technical Writing (online version)
Composition I and II
Advanced Grammar and Usage
Faculty Workshop on Responding to Student Writing, fall 1992
Graduate TA Training Seminar for Teaching Composition, fall 1991
Shakespeare (taught in "smart" classroom)
Senior Seminar: The Age of Spenser
Graduate Course: Literature of the Fantastic
Epic and Lyric Poetry
Comedy and Tragedy
The Art of Fiction
The Art of Drama
Survey of Early English Literature (taught in "smart" classroom)
Professional Activities
Editorial Board, Journal Programmatic
Perspectives, a journal about the administration
of academic technical and scientific communication programs
(Spring 2008-present)
Chair, Academic Senate Committee on Academic Standards and Admissions,
New York Institute of Technology, 2010-2012.
Member, Academic Senate Education Technology Committee,
New York Institute of Technology,
2010-2012.
Member, Academic Senate,
New York Institute of Technology,
2010-2012.
Referee of conference proposals for the Conference for Programs in Technical
and Professional Communication, 2011
Referee for technical communications textbook manuscript, Oxford University
Press,
2009
Referee for technical communications textbook manuscripts, Longman's Publishing
Company,
2001, 2006
Referee for technical communications textbook manuscript, Prentice Hall/Pearson
Education
Publishing Company, fall, 2003.
Member, school-wide committee to rewrite Professional Writing Foundation
Courses,
2009
Executive Board Member, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
(2009-2011)
Member, Departmental Search Committee, spring 2008
Faculty Mentor, SOURCE: Conference for Presentation of Student Research, School
of Arts,
Sciences and Communications, New York Institute of
Technology,
Spring, 2004, 2007, and 2011
Organized and Chaired two panels entitled "The Prehistory of the Robot in
Western Culture"
for the Annual Conference of the Society for Literature,
Science, and the Arts, November, 2006.
Faculty Mentor, NYIT Solar Decathlon Team, Fall 2006
(Federally-sponsored, intercollegiate student competition to
create a solar-powered house)
Member, Search Committee for Associate Provost of Educational Technology
New York Institute of Technology, spring 2004
Member, Curriculum Committee, School of Arts,
Sciences and Communications
New York Institute of Technology, 2003-2004
Member, Ad Hoc Ellis College Senate Committee
(for overseeing the establishment of a new online
university)
New York Institute of Technology, 2003-2004
Referee, ISRC Research Grants
New York Institute of Technology, 2003 & 2004.
Co-Chair, Academic Senate Educational Technology Committee,
New York Institute of Technology, 2002-2004.
Member, Academic Senate Executive Committee, 2003-2004
Member, Ad Hoc Educational Technology Strategic Planning Committee,
New York Institute of Technology, 2002-2003.
Coordinator of faculty workshop on Using Computers in English Classes,
New York Institute of Technology, Fall,
2002.
English Dept. 5-year Plan Committee,
New York Institute of Technology, Fall
2002.
Academic Senator,
New York Institute of Technology, 2002-2004.
Member, Academic Senate Library Systems Committee,
New York Institute of Technology, 2002-2003.
Referee, Technical Communication, Journal of the Society for Technical
Communication,
2002-2006.
Advisory Board Member, E-Institute Online Education Company,
September, 2001-2003.
Chair, Technical Writing Curriculum Committee, New
York Institute of Technology,
May 2000-May 2001.
Member, Educational Technology Committee, New York
Institute of Technology,
spring 2001-2005.
Departmental Job Candidate Interview Committee,
for Interdisciplinary Studies, spring 2002
Chaired panel entitled, "Science and Industry: Pleasure, Products,
Practices"
at the Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural
Studies, New
Orleans: November, 2000
Participant in Hofstra University s Multimedia Instructional Initiative,
spring 1997-1999
Development and Teaching of Computer-Interactive English Class
at Hofstra University, summer 1993-1999
Presentation on Computer-Assisted English Instruction, English Department
Colloquium, spring, 1996
Started and Moderated Internet Discussion Group for the List for Early Modern
Cultural Studies, 1994-2000
Organized and Chaired panel on cybernetics and literature
at annual conference of the Society for Literature and
Science, fall 1995
Referee for Journal of Advanced Composition (JAC),
1996-2000
Chaired session on "Composition in 2001" Conference on College
Composition and Communication, San Diego, CA, spring 1993
Conducted seminars on "Diversity," and "Effective Presentation
Styles"
for U.C. Irvine's Campus wide T.A. Training Program fall
1991
Associate Session Chair, Conference on College Composition and Communication,
St. Louis, MO, spring 1988
Associate Chair, for session on "Literacy and the Shaping of
Adult Experience," Conference on College Composition
and Communication,
Atlanta, GA, spring 1987
Professional Memberships
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology; Society for Literature, Science and the Arts;
Council of Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication; Society
for Technical Communication;
Northeast Modern Language Association;
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