CHRISTOPHER S. LESLIE Department of Technology, Culture and Society New York University Tandon School of Engineering 5 MetroTech Center, Room LC 131, Brooklyn NY 11201 (646) 997-3130 ú
[email protected] Academ ic Appointm ents Lecturer. New York University Tandon School of Engineering, 20141– . Instructor. Polytechnic Institute of New York University, 2008–13. Instructor. Polytechnic University, 2006–8. Adjunct Lecturer. Polytechnic University, 2001–6. Gastprofessor. Universität Potsdam Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2008–9. Graduate Teaching Fellow. Hunter College, CUNY, 2005–6 (declined extension). Adjunct Lecturer. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, 2002–6. Grants 2016
“Humanities for STEM: Using Archives to Bridge the Two Cultures Divide,” with Lindsay Anderberg. This two-year, $10,000 grant from New York University’s Center for the Humanities funds a research collaborative that joins fifteen faculty, staff, and archivists for monthly workshops. “Pre-Capstone Innovation Experience,” co-PI with Jin Kin Montclare, PI. This $30,000 grant from VentureWell encourages interdisciplinary senior projects with a semesterlong course that includes a component for customer discovery and entrepreneurship.
2014
“Text and Technology.” Team-teaching stipend with Lisa Gitelman. Humanities Initiative at New York University. $8,000 grant allowed for an inter-school course on literature and new media that brought students from the Tisch School of the Arts, Tandon School of Engineering, College of Arts and Science, and Steinhardt.
2013
“Information Retrieval Techniques to Model Disciplinary Change in the Humanities.” Seed grant for collaborative research with Bill Blake, Lisa Gitelman, and Torsten Suel. Polytechnic Institute of NYU. This $100,000 award funded a two-year exploration of the impact of online search on the study of the humanities.
H onors 2014
Selected to be one of NYU’s Faculty Fellows in Residence for Othmer Hall and Clark Street. Manage a yearly budget of $6,000 for academic and cultural activities in the residence halls.
2011
Samuel Eleazar and Rose Tartakow Levinson Prize for a first essay in the history of technology from the Society for the History of Technology.
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Polytechnic University merged with New York University on 1 January 2014 and became the Tandon School of Engineering in fall 2015. During a period of affiliation starting in 2008, the name Polytechnic Institute of New York University was used.
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2008
Fulbright Scholar, German-American Fulbright Commission. Taught three American studies courses per semester at the Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Potsdam.
2007
Robert Adams Day Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Interdisciplinary Work. CUNY Graduate Center Ph.D. Program in English for “Social Science Fiction.”
2006
Millennium Dissertation-Year Fellowship. Ph.D. Program in English, CUNY Graduate Center. Graduate Research Grant. This award from the CUNY Graduate Center provided funds for travel to archives.
2005
Second (Oral) Examination “with Distinction.” Ph.D. Program in English, CUNY Graduate Center. Examination fields: American Social Fiction & Nonfiction, 1893 to 1950; Science and Postwar American Literature; Intellectual History of New Media. Sue Rosenberg Zalk Student Travel and Research Grant, CUNY Graduate Center. Floyd Moreland Tuition Scholarship. This award from the CUNY Latin/Greek Institute funded my study of ancient Greek in their immersive program.
2000
Best Master’s Thesis, Liberal Studies Program, The Graduate Center, CUNY. “The Evils of Modernity: Henry Adams, Joseph Goldberger, Jane Addams, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Gertrude Stein Encounter the Cameral Mode.”
Education Ph.D. The Graduate Center, CUNY. English with a certificate in American Studies, 2007. M.A.
The Graduate Center, CUNY. Liberal Studies (American Studies track).
B.A.
SUNY Fredonia. English (cum laude) with honors in Liberal Education.
Other W ork Experience Document Specialist, First Manhattan Consulting Group. College Assistant, Office of Public Affairs, CUNY Graduate Center. Writing Tutor, SEEK Program, NYC Technical College, CUNY. Writing and Math Tutor, College Tutoring Services, SUNY Fredonia. Courses Taught
Literary Studies The Art and Science of Modernism College Composition 1 & 2 Digital Humanities Introduction to Literature
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Literary Theory Multicultural U.S. Literature Science and Technology in the Literary Sphere
Media Studies Graduate Media Studies 1 & 2 Hypermedia in Context Introduction to Media Studies History of Media Media Theory The Wars of the Worlds
Science and Technology Studies History and Philosophy of Internet Technology Introduction to Science and Technology Studies Introduction to the History of Western Technology Gendering Engineering (Fall 2016) Science Fiction for Innovation Science of Difference Senior Seminar in Science and Technology Studies
Publications
Refereed Publications 2016
“As We Should Have Thought: The Intellectual Legacy of the Memex,” forthcoming in Technology and Culture.
2015
“Innovating with History: How an Archival Intervention Diminishes Snow’s ‘Dangerous’ Divides,” with Lindsay Anderberg. Quinnipiac University’s Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing 3.
2013
“‘Half Fish, Half Monster’: Shakespeare’s Caliban and the Performance of Natural History.” Guest contribution to FORUM 16: Un/natural Histories.
2012
“Unstable Reality in the Age of Big Science: The Counterhegemonic Strategies of Jack Vance, J. G. Ballard, and Philip K. Dick.” Batı Edebiyatında İdeoloji (Ideology in Western Literature). Ertuğrul İşler, et al., eds. İzmir: Ata Matbaası.
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“Scholarly Humanities Websites: Silos to Withstand a Siege.” Romance Studies Journal: 103–24. 2006
“Metacognition through Group Practice in New Media.” Media/Culture 9:2 (May).
2002
“‘Fighting an Unseen Enemy’: The Infectious Paradigm in the Conquest of Pellagra.” Journal of Medical Humanities 23 (Winter): 187–202.
Conference Proceedings and Articles 2016
404 Not Found: Internet Protocols in the Transparent Society.” Forthcoming in Proteus: A Journal of Ideas at Shippensburg University. “Specters of (Un)natural History in Macbeth.” In preparation for Shakespeare’s “Mortal Living Ghost(s)”: Supernatural Appropriations and Afterlives, an anthology by Routledge. Jennifer Page, ed.
2015
“A Student-Led Approach to Promoting Teamwork in an Introductory Engineering Presentation,” with Gunter Georgi and Alyssa D’Apice. Proceedings of the 2015 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition.
2014
“Aesthetic Tourists: The Sheltering Sky’s Critique of Modernism.” Paul Bowles, The New Generation. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi B.V., 253–263. “Ingenuity in Isolation: Poland in the International History of the Internet,” with Patrick Gryczka. Proceedings of the 11th International Federation of Information Processing’s Technical Committee 9 conference on Human Choice and Computers, ed. Kai Kimppa et al., 162–75. “An Earthman in Spacetown: C. L. Moore’s Northwest Smith Stories as a Catalyst for Social Science Fiction.” America 37. Moscow: Russian Society of American Culture Studies. 304–13. “Fostering Innovation in STEM through the Application of Science and Technology History.” Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC).
2013
“Competing Histories of Technology: Recognizing the Vital Role of International Scientific Communities behind the Innovation of the Internet.” Making the History of Computing Relevant: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology 416: 196–206.
2012
“The Enabled Public: Social Media and the Arts.” Cable (NYU-Poly Alumni Magazine), Fall: 6–8.
2006
“Group Declamations for Ethics of Technology Courses.” Proceedings of the UNESCO International Centre for Engineering Education Fifth Annual Congress. “Fascist Sci Fi? Using Reader-Response to Defuse/Decode the Conservative Environment of Heinlein’s Novels.” The Heinlein Journal 18: 23–7.
2005
“Heinlein’s Challenge to the Bureaucratic State.” The Heinlein Journal 16: 21–7.
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2004
“Writing Self-Assessment for First-Year Engineering Students: Initial Findings,” with Elisa Linksy and Gunter Georgi. Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition.
Book Reviews and Review Essays 2013
Review of Media Clusters: Spatial Agglomeration and Content Capabilities, edited by Charlie Karlsson and Robert G. Picard. Science and Public Policy 40.4 (2013): 559–60.
2012
“Sequencing the Genome, Naturalising Race.” Review essay of Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age, edited by Barbara A. Koenig, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, and Sarah S. Richardson; What’s the Use of Race?: Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference, edited by Ian Whitmarsh and David S. Jones, and Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture, edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Kathleen Sloan. Science as Culture, 21.4: 573–81. Review of Lab Coats in Hollywood by David A. Kirby. SFRA Review 302: 26–7. “China and the Internet.” Review essay of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online by Guobin Yang; Changing Media, Changing China by Susan L. Shirk (ed.), and Online Society in China by David Kurt Herol and Peter Marolt (eds.). Media, Culture, and Society 34.8 (November): 1059–63.
2012
Review of Murray Leinster: The Life and Works by Billee J. Stallings and Jo-an J. Evans. SFRA Review 301 (Summer): 43–4. “Decolonizing the Internet.” Review essay of The Internet of Elsewhere: The Emergent Effects of a Wired World by Cyrus Farivar; Kurdish Identity, Discourse, and New Media by Jaffer Sheyholislami, and Palestine Online: Transnationalism, Communications and the Reinvention of Identity by Miriyam Aouragh. Global Media and Communication 8.1 (April): 81–8. Review of Science Fiction and Computing: Essays on Interlinked Domains, David L. Ferro and Eric G. Swedin (eds.). SFRA Review 300 (Spring): 16–7.
2011
Review essay of The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu; In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy, and The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom by Evgeny Morozov. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 62.12 (December): 2540–5. “The Rise of the Confident Reader.” Review essay of Books as Weapons: Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War II by John B. Hench; Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge by Beth Luey, and Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture by Jim Collins. American Quarterly 63.4 (December): 1051–62. “A Martian Named Heinlein.” Review of Robert A. Heinlein in Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1, 1907–1948: Learning Curve by William H. Patterson, Jr. Extrapolation 52.1 (Spring): 126–8.
2004
“Not Exactly the Copernican Revolution. Review of Emergence by Steven Johnson.” Currents in Electronic Literacy, No. 8.
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Encyclopedia Articles 2014
“Asia,” “Deep Packet Inspection,” and “Innovation and Technology.” Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics, Kerric Harvey, ed. SAGE Publications. “Social Definitions of Race” and “Slavery: Lasting Cultural Effects of Biological Determinism.” Encyclopedia of Human Services and Diversity, ed. Linwood H. Cousins. SAGE Publications.
2013
“John T. Chambers: Cisco Systems,” “Federico Faggin: Intel” and “John McCarthy: Creator of the Lisp Programming Language.” Computer Technology Innovators: Internet Innovators, Salem Press.
“Literature and Ethnic Diversity,” “Science and Technology,” “History of and How the Census Works,” and “Science and Technology,” Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia, SAGE Publications. “Isaac Asimov: I, Robot.” Article in The Literary Encyclopedia. 2007
“Appropriate Technology Movement,” “Glocalization,” “Grange Movement,” “Sinclair Lewis,” and “Social Science Fiction.” Encyclopedia of Social Justice, Sage Publications.
Presentations
Talks and Invited Lectures 2016
“How STS Promotes Innovative Thinking: The History of the Internet.” Introduction to Engineering and Design, NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
2015
“Location-Aware Augmented Reality for Humanities Data.” New York Metro American Studies Association’s Digital Cities summer institute, MAGNET, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. “Diversity in STEM.” Summer Undergraduate Research Program, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. “The Humanities and Online Databases: Change in the Disciplines.” NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering Research Expo. Panelist for “What Can You Do with a B.A. in the Humanities?” Humanities Ambassadors, Kimmel Center, New York University. “When Do Collaboration and Cooperation Foster Innovation?” Lambda Chi Alpha Northeast Conclave.
2014
“How the Concept of Engineer-Sociologists Helps with Grant Writing.” Urban Future Lab, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. “SteinFinder: Location-Aware Apps for the Humanities.” NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering Research Expo. Panelist for “What Can You Do with a B.A. in the Humanities?” Humanities Ambassadors, Kimmel Center, New York University.
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“Improving STEM with STS,” Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. 2013
Panel discussion of a screening of the documentary Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement, sponsored by the Design Tinkering Club, Pfizer Auditorium. “If You Don’t Like the Soup, Get into the Kitchen: Why Archival Research Should Be a Part of Engineering Education.” Teaching with Archives panel sponsored by the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York. “Cosmopolitan Hackers: How the History of Technology Should Guide an Innovation Pedagogy.” Guest speaker at the Long Island Science and Engineering Fair. “Innovation and the Internet.” NYU-Poly Alumni Gathering, Orlando, Florida. “U.S. Novels in the Fight against Scientific Racism: Chesnutt, Stein, Fitzgerald, and Du Bois.” G-SEC American Studies Project Lecture Series, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
2012
“Gertrude Stein among the Eugenicists.” New York University’s Colloquium on American Literature and Culture (CALC). “Tips for Grant Writing.” NYU-Poly’s Varick Street Incubator. “International Innovation in the History of the Internet.” Bahçeşehir High School for Science and Technology, Istanbul. “Using Primary Source Documents to Study Scientific Innovation.” National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science, and Technology, NYU-Poly. “Brecht’s Epic Theater as a Medium for Inquiry.” Special panel discussion at NYU-Poly.
2011
“George Pal’s 1953 War of the Worlds and Big Science.” American Studies Certificate Program, CUNY Graduate Center.
2009
“Before the Web Was Worldwide: The Diffusion of Internet Technology to Germany and then China.” Humanities and Social Science Colloquium, Polytechnic Institute of NYU. “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Bell Curve.” University of Rostock, Germany.
2006
“Writing Paragraphs for the ACT.” Writing Center, John Jay College. “Metacognition and Interactive Technology.” English Department, John Jay College.
2005
“Writing Sentences with Style.” Writing Center, John Jay College.
2004
“The Basics of Science Writing.” Writing Center, John Jay College.
Conference Papers 2016
“Making History Active: Archival Interventions for Engineering Education,” with Lindsay Anderberg. American Society for Engineering Education, New Orleans.
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“Improving Efficacy in Group Projects with Teamwork Agreements,” with Jack Bringardner, Gunter Georgi, and Alyssa D’Apice. American Society for Engineering Education, New Orleans. “Flame Wars, the Quasar Hoax, and Worldnet: Early Conceptions of the International User from ARPANet to CSNET.” International Federation of Information Processing Working Group 9.7 Conference. “From Outer Space to Inner Space: The Science Fiction of 1966.” European Association for American Studies conference, Constanta, Romania. “‘Like Flowers Under Hot Water’: Hurston’s Reverse Ethnography in Mules and Men.” Zora! Festival academic track, Committee to Preserve the Eatonville Community, Florida. 2015
“The Construction of Constructivism: Western Newspaper Coverage of Fukushima.” Asia-Pacific Science and Technology Studies Network, Taiwan. “‘This Is Not Fanciful’: Gertrude Stein’s Ambulance Work in the Great War.” Death of Empires conference at Daemen College, Amherst, N.Y. “Melville and the Natural Historians.” International Melville Conference, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. “A Student-Led Approach to Promoting Teamwork in an Introductory Engineering Presentation,” with Gunter Georgi and Alyssa D’Apice. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle. “‘Melanctha Was Too Many for Him’: 3 Lives’ Engagement with Scientific Racism.” American Literature Association, Boston.
2014
“New Media Revolutions and the Lifeworld: Postcolonial Theory and the Consumer Internet.” Joint meeting of Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (ESOCITE) and the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Buenos Aires. “Ingenuity in Isolation: Poland in the International History of the Internet,” with Patrick Gryczka. International Federation of Information Processing’s conference on Human Choice and Computers, University of Turku, Finland. “Gender and Race in the Gernsback Era: Reconstruction of the Science of Difference.” Feminism, Fans, and the Future: Traveling the Shifting Worlds of Writers, Readers, Gender, and Race in Science Fiction, joint Science Fiction Research Association and WISCON conference. “SteinFinder: Visualizing Stein’s Work and Reception.” A Valentine to Gertrude Stein: The Reception of Gertrude Stein in the Arts and Humanities conference at the University of Copenhagen. “Specters of Unnatural History in Macbeth.” Shakespeare 450 conference organized by Société française Shakespeare, Paris. “Fostering Innovation in STEM through the Application of Science and Technology History.” IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference, Princeton, NJ. “Educational Strategies for the Sustainable Development of Biotech.” Sixth Annual Conference of the STS Society in Taiwan, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan.
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“Blood Factors and the Social Construction of Race in the Twentieth Century: Malaria without Sickle Cell in Southeast Asia.” International Conference on the History of Medicine in Southeast Asia, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. 2013
“Polytechnic Penicillin: Innovation through Technology Transfer in the Context of Interdisciplinary Education.” History of Science Society, Boston. “The Transparent Society through Social Media.” World Social Science Forum 2013: Social Transformations and the Digital Age, Montréal. “A Missing Link: Placing International Teleprinter Networks into the Prehistory of the Internet.” Old Ideas: Recomputing the History of Information Technology, SIGCIS Workshop, Portland, Maine. “404 Not Found: The Internet as a Transparent Society.” Society for Social Studies of Science, San Diego. “The Science of Fictional Species in the Genomic Age.” Writing Worlds – Models of World and Space in the Fantastic, the fourth annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung, Wetzlar, Germany. “Sustainable Innovation in Southeast Asia: Assessing the Legacy of the Appropriate Technology Movement.” APSTSN biennial conference, Knowing, Making, Governing, Tembusu College, National University of Singapore. “Walt Whitman and the History of Racial Science.” Sixth Annual International Walt Whitman Week, Northwestern University. “Competing Histories of the Internet: The Vital Role of International Communities.” International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 9.7 conference on the History of Computing, London. “Remediations of Public Radio: The Broadcasts of War of the Worlds.” Joint Science Fiction Research Association / Eaton Conference, Riverside. “Fantastic Facts: Travel Narratives in Eighteenth Century Proto-Science Fiction.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Cleveland. “Quite Safe for Work: The Potential for Counterhegemony in the Use of Social Media.” Marxist Reading Group’s conference “Rethinking Work,” University of Florida. “Symbiotic Communication: Disrupting Notions of Alterity in the Wake of the New Wave.” Ethics and Poetics of Genre Literature, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3, France. “Ineffectual Ambassadors of Cold War Science Fiction.” The Ambassadorship of Literature symposium, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University. “STS Interventions: Technology Transfer Lessons for the Engineering Curriculum.” Multidisciplinary Studies on Sustainable Development conference, Prince of Songkla University, Phuket Campus, Thailand.
2012
“The Military-Industrial Complex in the 1960s Novels.” Worlds Out of Joint: Re-Imagining Philip K. Dick, TU Dortmund University, Germany. “The Social Construction of Race in Pre-Golden Age Science Fiction: Smith and
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Weinbaum.” Society for Social Studies of Science joint meeting with the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, Copenhagen, Denmark. “CSNET and the Internationalization of the Internet.” Society for the History of Technology, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. “The Continuous Present in the Clinic: Stein’s 3 Lives and The Making of Americans.” European Society for the Study of English, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. “Fictionalizing in the Age of Big Science: Asimov’s Galactic Empires as Social Science Fiction.” European Society for the Study of English, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. “The Apocalyptic Visions of Social Science Fiction.” Science Fiction Research Association, Detroit. “Walter Benjamin and the Stages of Civilization.” Barbarism Revisited conference at Leiden University, The Netherlands. “The Dead Astronaut Story.” American Comparative Literature Association panel on The Corpse and Catastrophe, Brown University. “Science Fiction and the ARPANet.” Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference, John Jay College, New York. “Hugo Gernsback’s Utopian Radio Citizens of New York in 2660 (or 1911).” New York Institute of Technology’s Modernist Manhattan conference. “‘Come to Paris Where You Can Be Looked After’: Paul Bowles Remediates Gertrude Stein.” Modern Language Association, Seattle. 2011
“An Earthman in Spacetown: C. L. Moore’s Northwest Smith Stories.” Russian Society of American Culture Studies, Moscow State University. “As We Had Been Thinking: The Memex as Convergence.” Society for the History of Technology, Cleveland. “Word Clouds as Deformance: A Study of Stein’s 3 Lives.” Humanities and Technology Association, Bowie State University. “The Unstable Reality as Counterhegemony: Jack Vance, J. G. Ballard, and Philip K. Dick.” Batı Kültürü ve Edebiyatları Araştırmaları Sempozyumu at Pamukkale University, Turkey. “Translation and Cosmopolitan Science in Hugo Gernsback’s Magazines,” Science Fiction Research Association, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland. “Horror and Hybridity: Charles Chesnutt in the Context of Scientific Racism.” American Literature Association, Boston.
2010
“Shakespeare as Natural Historian: Caliban and the Traffic in Monsters.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta. “‘Behavior Lawless as Snow-Flakes’: Whitman’s Organicism in a Culture of Teleology.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Indianapolis. “Modernist Tourists as a Critique of Modernism.” Paul Bowles Centennial International Conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
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“The New Wave’s Cultural Strategy: The Cold War, Science Fiction, and the Irrational.” Fremde Welten conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung, University of Hamburg, Germany. 2007
“Adult Heinlein and the Anthropological Imagination.” PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston. “Group Declamations for Ethics of Technology Courses.” UNESCO International Centre for Engineering Education Fifth Annual Congress, Brooklyn, NY.
2006
“Robert Heinlein’s Space Cadets and Interstellar Citizens.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association national conference, Atlanta. “Science Fiction and Global English.” American Comparative Language Association conference on “The Human and Its Others,” Princeton University. “The Enterprise and/as New Media Ethnography.” Southwest Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque. “Steinian Anti-Induction: The Making of Americans as Epistemological Epic.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Cambridge, Mass.
2005
“Fascist Sci-Fi? Using Reader Response to Decode/Defuse the Conservative Environment of Heinlein’s Novels.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association national conference, San Diego, California. “Reading in an Immaterial World: The Hypermaterial Potential of New Media Scholarly Resources.” Conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship, New York University.
2004
“Enabling Legitimate Peripheral Participation in the New Media Classroom.” Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, Missouri. “Metacognition in the Computer Classroom.” Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland State University. “Self-Assessment for First-Year Engineers.” American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Salt Lake City. “Robert Heinlein’s Challenge to the Bureaucratic State.” PCA/ACA, San Antonio, Texas.
2003
“Modernism and the Cameral Mode.” Modernist Studies Association, Birmingham, England. “The Republic of Numbers: Jefferson and Brown’s Critique of the Enlightenment.” American Literature Association, Cambridge, Mass. “Considering Nonwestern Utopias.” New Jersey College English Association, Seton Hall University.
2002
“‘The World’s Wisest Philanthropist’: Charles Davenport and American Eugenics.” Northeast American Studies Association, Boston. “Robert Heinlein and the Crossing of Impenetrable Borders.” McGill University Symposium on Language and Literature, Montréal.
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“The Metaphor of the Mirror in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.” Reflections in the Mirror graduate conference at The Graduate Center, CUNY. 2001
“Henry Adams and the Phase Rule of History.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Hartford, Conn. “W. E. B. Du Bois’s Fight Against the Bell Curve.” Northeast PCA/ACA, New Haven, Conn. “The Danger of the Infectious Paradigm: Pellagra at the Turn of the Century.” American Comparative Literature Association conference on “Interdisciplinary Studies: In the Middle, Across, or in Between?" New Haven, Conn.
2000
“Gertrude Stein: Repressed or Reluctant?” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association national conference, New Orleans.
Service Activities
Executive Committees, Editorial Boards and Advisory Boards 2016
Communications Officer, Special Interest Group on Computers, Information and Society (SIGCIS) of the Society for the History of Technology. Vice Chair, Working Group 9.7 (History of Computing), International Federation for Information Processing. Editorial Board, Education and Information Technologies. Advisory Board, Center for the Humanities, New York University.
2015
Board Member at Large, New York Metro American Studies Association. Communications Officer, Special Interest Group on Computers, Information and Society (SIGCIS) of the Society for the History of Technology. Vice Chair, Working Group 9.7 (History of Computing), International Federation for Information Processing. Advisory Board, The Humanities Initiative (renamed Center for the Humanities), New York University.
2014
Communications Officer, Special Interest Group on Computers, Information and Society (SIGCIS) of the Society for the History of Technology. Vice Chair, Working Group 9.7 (History of Computing), International Federation for Information Processing. Advisory Board, The Humanities Initiative, New York University.
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Peer Reviewer 2016
Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing
2015
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing National Science Foundation
2014
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
2013
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
2011
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Conferences and Conference Panels Organized 2016
Overall Conference Chair and member of Program Committee, “International Communities of Invention and Innovation,” International Federation of Information Processing Working Group 9.7 conference.
2015
Organizing Committee, New York Metro American Studies Association annual conference, “Love.” Organizing Committee, “The Digital City: New Approaches in the Digital Humanities,” NYMASA summer institute.
2014
Organized “Medicine across Hemispheres: Disparities and Opportunities in Global Health” panel at the joint meeting of Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (ESOCITE) and the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Buenos Aires. Organized “Shakespeare and Natural History” panel at the Shakespeare 450 conference sponsored by the Société française Shakespeare, Paris. Organizing Committee, New York Metro American Studies Association annual conference, “Vernaculars.”
2013
Organized “STS Interventions into Invention, Innovation, and Diffusion for Engineering Education” panel at the Society for Social Studies of Science, San Diego. Organized “Science Fiction and the Social Construction of Science and Technology” panel at the 8th annual Science in Public conference at the University of Nottingham. Organizing Committee, New York Metro American Studies Association annual conference, “Masculinities.”
2012
Organized “Brecht and the Muppets” panel at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association national conference. Organized special symposium, “Brecht and Galileo,” at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU.
2005
Organized “Modernist Citizens” panel at the Northeast MLA Conference with Jeanette McVicker.
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2003
Organized “Stein after Stonewall: Beyond the Repressive Hypothesis” panel at Midwest MLA. Organized “Gertrude Stein and the Artistic Imagination” panel at Northeast MLA Conference.
Departmental and University Service, NYU Tandon School of Engineering 2016
Co-director of the Science and Technology Studies major. Member of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Committee. Member of National Scholarships Advising Committee. School of Engineering Prehealth Committee. Head Writing Consultant, General Engineering course.
2015
Co-director of the Science and Technology Studies major. Member of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Committee. Member of National Scholarships Advising Committee. Faculty Advisor, Science and Technology Studies and Sustainable Urban Environments majors. School of Engineering Prehealth Committee. Head Writing Consultant, General Engineering course. General departmental advisor for humanities and social science courses, including transfer credit evaluation.
2014
Co-director of the Science and Technology Studies major. Member of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Committee. Faculty Advisor, Science and Technology Studies and Sustainable Urban Environments majors. School of Engineering Prehealth Committee. Recruiting Committee. Head Writing Consultant, General Engineering course. General departmental advisor for humanities and social science courses, including transfer credit evaluation.
2013
Co-director of the Science and Technology Studies major. Faculty Advisor, Science and Technology Studies and Sustainable Urban Environments majors. School of Engineering Prehealth Committee. Recruiting Committee.
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Head Writing Consultant, General Engineering course. General departmental advisor for humanities and social science courses, including transfer credit evaluation. Writing consultant and instructor, ARISE high school summer institute. 2012
Co-director of the Science and Technology Studies major. Faculty Advisor, Science and Technology Studies and Sustainable Urban Environments majors. School of Engineering Prehealth Committee. Recruiting Committee, Department of Technology, Culture and Society. Head Writing Consultant, General Engineering course. General departmental advisor for humanities and social science courses, including transfer credit evaluation.
2011
Middle States Reaccreditation Working Group on General Education. Recruiting Committee, Department of Technology, Culture and Society. Head Writing Consultant, General Engineering course. Faculty Advisor, Science and Technology Studies and Sustainable Urban Environments majors.
2010
Faculty Advisor, Science and Technology Studies and Sustainable Urban Environments majors. Head Writing Consultant, General Engineering course.
2009
Faculty Advisor, Science and Technology Studies and Sustainable Urban Environments majors.
2008
Faculty Advisor, Science and Technology Studies major.
2007
Ad-hoc committee to create a Science and Technology Studies degree. Technical Communications major internship supervisor. Head Coach, Varsity Men’s and Women’s Cross Country team.
2006
Ad-hoc committee to create a Science and Technology Studies degree. Technical Communications major internship supervisor. Head Coach, Varsity Men’s and Women’s Cross Country team. Faculty Advisor, Cardinal Newman Society.
2005
Faculty Advisor, Cardinal Newman Society.
2004
General Engineering Writing Assessment Project. Humanities and Social Sciences Assessment Project.
2003
General Engineering Writing Assessment Project.
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Departmental and University Service, City University of New York 2006
Elected as Co-webmaster, Website Committee, English Program, Graduate Center. American Studies Certificate Program Advisory Committee, Graduate Center.
2005
Fundraising Committee, English Program, Graduate Center. Elected as Co-webmaster, Website Committee, English Program, Graduate Center. American Studies Certificate Program Advisory Committee, Graduate Center. English Department representative for open house, John Jay College.
2004
Fundraising Committee, English Program, Graduate Center. Elected to Website Committee, English Program. American Studies Certificate Program Advisory Committee, Graduate Center.
2003
Program Assistant, American Studies Faculty Development Seminar, Graduate Center. Syllabus workshop for new adjuncts, English Program. Elected to Website Committee, English Program. American Studies Certificate Program Advisory Committee, Graduate Center.
Students Supervised 2016
Raisa Rabbani (BS Computer Engineering) and Swati Barua (BS Computer Science), undergraduate summer research program.
2015
Yuling Liu (BS Science and Technology Studies), capstone project. Luciana Jaalouk (BS Mechanical Engineering), Griffin Teed (BS Chemical and Biological Engineering), and Andreína Vivas Thomas (BS Computer and Electrical Engineering), undergraduate summer research program.
2014
Lei Sun (MS Computer Science) and Min Zhu (MS Computer Science), graduate assistants for digital humanities. Jillian Spataro (BS Computer Science), Eugene Goncharov (BS Mechanical Engineering), and Qiao Yang Han (BS Computer Science), undergraduate summer research program. Yeshwant Dasari (MS Computer Science), graduate assistant for a project in digital humanities.
2013
Shriprasad Tikone (MS Computer Science), graduate assistant for a project in digital humanities. Patrick Gryczka (BS Computer Science), Collin Grubbs (BS Integrated Digital Media), and Nour Radi Al Gharibeh (BS Engineering – NYU Abu Dhabi), undergraduate sumer research program.
Leslie / 17
2012
Mara Pesacreta (BS Science and Technology Studies), senior capstone project on forensic phenotyping. Aye Maung (BS Mechanical Engineering), history of the Internet project, undergraduate summer research program. William Xia (BS Mechanical Engineering), research project in digital humanities, undergraduate summer research program
2007
Mike Napoli (BS Technical Communications), Maria Carnicella (BS Science and Technology Studies), and David Darling (BS Science and Technology Studies), independent study in science fiction. Michal Piekarczyk (BS/MS Computer Science), independent study in critical race theory.
2006
Jeff Mueller, independent study in 20th century science fiction. Jeff won the Department of Humanities and Social Science “Mermaid” award for this project.
2004
Michael Shapiro, YES Summer Research Institute. The research paper I worked on with Mike qualified him as an Intel Science Search semifinalist.
Training and W orkshops 2012
Faculty Innovations in Teaching and Learning, NYU-Poly. Getting Started in Digital Humanities, DHCommons, MLA.
2004
Learning to Look, American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning.
M em berships Modern Language Association Science Fiction Research Association Society for the History of Technology Society for the Social Studies of Science
Reading Languages German, Ancient Greek
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