Curriculum Vitae
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Education
Ph.D. in English / Certificate: Digital Humanities, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, August 2020
B.F.A. in Studio Art (Digital Media) / B.A. in English, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, May 2012
Appointments
Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication- Strategic Digital Media and Design, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, 2023-Present
Innovation Academy Lecturer, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2023-Present
Assistant Professor of Digital Culture and Design, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, 2020-2022
Graduate Instructor, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2012-2020
Teaching Experience Courses Designed and Taught
Web Design: Crafting Micro Enterprises, [Communication] University of Tampa, August 2023-December 2023
Digital Media and Design for Communication: Aesthetics, [Communication] University of Tampa, August 2023-December 2023
Media Writing: Disney+, [Communication] University of Tampa, August 2023-December 2023
Innovation in Action, [Innovation Academy] University of Florida, July 2023-August 2023
Creativity and Design Thinking for Innovation, [Innovation Academy] University of Florida, January 2023-May 2023
Visual Methods: Trompe L'oeil, [Digital Culture and Design] Coastal Carolina University, January 2022-May 2022
Coding for Humanists: Escape Rooms, [Digital Culture and Design] Coastal Carolina University, January 2022-May 2022
Film, New Media, and Culture: Disney+Technology, Asynchronous Distance Learning, [English] Coastal Carolina University, January 2022-May 2022
Interactive Methods: Magic Books, [Digital Culture and Design] Coastal Carolina University, August 2021-December 2021
Coding for Humanists: Escape Rooms, [Digital Culture and Design] Coastal Carolina University, August 2021-December 2021
Film, New Media, and Culture: Disney+Technology, [English] Coastal Carolina University, August 2021-December 2021
Visual Methods: ÆSTHETICS, [Digital Culture and Design] Coastal Carolina University, January 2021-May 2021
Film, New Media, and Culture: Disney+Technology, Asynchronous Distance Learning, [English] Coastal Carolina University, January 2021-May 2021
Interactive Methods: Text, Image, Surface, Material, [Digital Culture and Design] Coastal Carolina University, August 2020-December 2020
Coding for Humanists: Digital Tinkering and Design, [Digital Culture and Design] Coastal Carolina University, August 2020-December 2020
Film, New Media, and Culture: Disney+Technology, [English] Coastal Carolina University, August 2020-December 2020
Multimodal Writing and Digital Literacy: Creativity + Technology = Magic, [English] University of Florida, August 2019-December 2019
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Advanced Exposition: Codexposition, [English] University of Florida, August 2018-December 2018
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Advanced Exposition: Makeademia, [English] University of Florida, May 2018-June 2018
makeademia.tumblr.com
Advanced Argumentative Writing: Making Media Meta, [English] University of Florida, January 2018-April 2018
makingmediameta.tumblr.com
Writing Through Media: Disney Then and Now, [English] University of Florida, August 2017-December 2017
Disneyfication of American Literature and Culture, [English] University of Florida, August 2016-December 2016
Survey of American Literature:
American Children's Fantasy, [English] University of Florida, August
2015-December 2015
(http://www.english.ufl.edu/courses/syllabi/2015-2016/Fall_2015/AML2070_03A5_Brooks.pdf)
Writing Through Media: The History (and Future) of the Book, [English] University of Florida, January 2015-May 2015
Writing About Magic,
[English] University of Florida, August 2014-December 2014
(http://www.english.ufl.edu/courses/syllabi/2014-2015/Fall_2014/ENC1145_3318_ESneeden.docx)
Workshop Training
Co-Creator (with Aaron Beveridge and Sara Gonzalez) and Instructor (with Aaron Beveridge and Shannon Butts), Beginning Arduino Training Series, Marston Science Library, University of Florida (http://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/c.php?g=217137&p=1434264)
Sensing Sound Tutorial, April 2018
Morse Code Tutorial, February 2017
Paper Animatronic Tutorial, November 2016
Pseudo Theremin Tutorial, April 2016
Piezo Tutorial, November 2015
Photocell Tutorial, April 2015
Instructor, (with Sara Gonzalez and Shannon Butts), Girls Technology Camp, Marston Science Library, University of Florida, (http://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/Girlstechcamp)
Crafting with Technology, July 2018
Augmented Reality Scavenger Hunt, July 2017
Crafting with Technology, July 2016
Instructor, Gator Computing Program, Center for Precollegiate Education and Training, University of Florida
Servo Motor Arduino Introduction, June 2018
Servo Motor Arduino Introduction, June 2017
Instructor, (with Sara Gonzalez and Shannon Butts), Light-Up Valentines Day Card Pop Up Activity, Marston Science Library, University of Florida, February 2017
Presentations
International
Illuminated Bibliocircuitry, "Affordances and Interfaces: Textual Interactions Past, Present and Future." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, University of Otago, New Zealand, June 26-30, 2023 [Virtual Presentation]
[Roundtable] Digital Pedagogy Roundtable: Remixing, Remediating, and Augmenting Books (with Andie Silva and Jeff Allred), "Moving Texts: From Discovery to Delivery." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, University of Muenster, Germany, July 26-30, 2021 [Virtual Presentation]
Codexposition: Book History Pedagogical Interventions in the Composition Classroom, "Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the Book." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, July 15-19, 2019
Volumetric Captures: Digitizing Spatial and Temporal Shifts of Movable Books, "Technologies of the Book." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, University of Victoria, Canada, June 9-12, 2017
Digitization and Dissemination of Movable Books Data, Digital Humanities Summer Institute Colloquium, University of Victoria, Canada, June 13-17, 2016
Media Coverage: https://theamericanscholar.org/gif-books/ September 6, 2016
National
The Book Lab: Treasuring Tactility, Prizing Pixels: Making Material and Digital Codex Artifacts, "Multilingual US." Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, DC, January 6-9, 2022
[Roundtable] Teaching On/With TikTok (with Sarah Laiola, Chloe Milligan, and Casey Wilson), Association for Computers and the Humanities Conference, Houston, TX, July 22-23, 2021 [Virtual Presentation]
Recovering the Role of the Toy and Movable Books in 21st Century Textual Scholarship, "Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions." Society for Textual Scholarship, The New School, NY, May 19-22, 2021 [Virtual Presentation]
[Roundtable] Activist Pedagogies: Finding Balance in the Digital Humanities Classroom (with Jenae Cohn, Rebekah Fitzsimmons, Sarah Laiola, Chloe Milligan, Kate Oestreich, and Alan Reid), "Practicing Digital Activisms." Computers and Writing Conference, Greenville, NC, May 14-17, 2020 [COVID-19 Cancellation]
Makeademia: Paper/Digital Prototyping as Multimodal Composition & Making Little Golden Books: A Material, Multimodal Approach to the Media History of Disney, "Textual Transactions." Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL, January 3-6, 2019
[Invited Speaker] Digitizing Movable Books, Movable Book Society Conference, Kansas City, MO, September 27-29, 2018
Re(p)lic(a): Making 3D Prints of Treasure Bindings to Explore Historic Bookmaking Practices, "#States of Insecurity." Modern Language Association Convention, New York City, NY, January 4-7, 2018
A Digital Reimag(in)ing of Movable Books in the Baldwin Special Collections, "Imagined Futures." Children's Literature Association Conference, Tampa, FL, June 22-24, 2017
Pat, Press, and Spot: Translating Tactility between Traditional and Technological Books, "Boundary Conditions." Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA, January 5-8, 2017
Regional
The heART of the LAM: Cultural Heritage Preservation with 3D Technology, "In Concert: Literature and the Other Arts." South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Durham, NC, November 13-15, 2015
The Paradox of Treasure Bindings' Preservation, "Sustainability and the Humanities." South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 7-9, 2014
Translating Media: Toys and Moveable Books to eBook/Apps, "Cultures, Contexts, Images, Texts: Making Meaning In Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds." South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 8-10, 2013
Awards and Honors
NEH Summer Scholar, National Endowment for the Humanities, June 2018
English Department Graduate Student Teaching Award, University of Florida, February 2018
Graduate Student Council Travel Grant, University of Florida, November 2016
HASTAC Scholar, Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory, September 2016
Digital Humanities Summer Institute Tuition Scholarship, University of Victoria, June 2016
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, University of Florida, November 2015
Grinter Fellowship, University of Florida, August 2012-May 2015
University Scholars Award, University of Florida, March 2011
Service
DCD Search Committee Chair, English Department, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, August 2021-May 2022
Distance Learning Committee Chair, English Department, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, August 2021-May 2022
Webmaster, English Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, January 2019-August 2020
(http://english.ufl.edu/)
Graduate Student Representative, Digital Humanities Certificate Board, University of Florida, August 2017-August 2020
( https://digitalhumanities.group.ufl.edu/dh-graduate-certificate/)
Production Editor, ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, University of
Florida, Gainesville, FL, August 2015-December 2017
(http://english.ufl.edu/imagetext/)
Planning Committee Member, Graduate Comics Organization Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, April 2016, April 2017
Guest Editor, "How
We Make," TRACE Innovation Initiative, University of Florida, Gainesville,
FL, April 2016-April 2018
(http://trace.english.ufl.edu)
Planning Committee Member, THATCamp Gainesville, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, April 2016, April 2017
Work Experience
Lead Graphic Designer/Technical
Editor, The Athena Group, Inc. Gainesville, FL, May 2011-December 2018
(http://STEMsims.com)
Professional Memberships/Affiliations
Modern Language Association
Children's Literature Association
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
Digital Humanities Working Group