IX. Service & Community Development

Department

• Personnel and Policy Committee, 2023 – 2025.
• Associate Chair, 2020 – 2021. Responsible for curriculum planning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities, founding member. A research collective specializing in literary modeling and visualization, spatial humanities, and knowledge design. Weekly lab meetings, monthly workshops, and lecture series. 2014 –
• Committee for Graduate Education: 2012 – 2015, 2019 – 2020, 2023 – 2024.
• Associate Director of Graduate Studies, 2018 – 19.
• Dissertation Prize Committee, 2017 – 18.
• Committee for Undergraduate Education, 2016 – 18.
• Senior essay advising and undergraduate prize committee participation, yearly since 2012.

University

• Co-Director, Center for Comparative media, 2023 –
• Provost’s Advisory Committee on the Libraries, 2022 – 26.
• Hiring Committee, Film and Media Studies, 2023 – 24.
• Postdoc Committee, Harriman Institute, Spring 2024.
• Senior Job Search Committee, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 2022 – 23.
• Executive Committee, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, 2016 –
• Harriman Institute Executive Committee, 2021 –
• Dean Search Committee, School of Professional Studies, AY 2020/21.
• Studio at Butler, founding member, faculty advisor. Planning, specification, and programming of the Butler Studio, a maker/lab space at the center of Butler Library. Hosting lectures, training workshops, and open labs. 2013 –
• Faculty Working Group on Computational Humanities and Social Science, 2016 –
• Collaboratory Proposal Selection Committee, Spring 2016 and 2019.
• Data Science Taskforce, 2015 – 2017.
• Ad-hoc Exploratory Committee for the Center for Culture and Computation, AY 2014/15.
• Jury member, annual Breakthroughs in Storytelling Awards, School of the Arts, 2015 –
• Founding Member. Digital Storytelling Lab, 2013 –
• Member of “Literary Theory” and “Theory and History of Media” University Seminars 2013 –
• Multiple contributions to the “Strategic Plan for Humanities in the Arts and Sciences,” AY 2016/17.
• Principal convener (along with Manan Ahmed and Roosevelt Montas) of the “Connected Core” pilot program as part of the university-wide “Core to Commencement” campaign, funded by the College Dean’s office, AY 2016.
• Advisory Board. Studio at Butler Library (maker space), 2013 –

Professional Service

• Book manuscript reviews for Cambridge, Columbia, Duke, MIT, University of Michigan, Palgrave Macmillan, Princeton, Stanford, and W.W. Norton presses.
• Article manuscript review for the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL); Computational Culture; Communication Theory; Critical AI; Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ); Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (DSH); Digital Studies / Le champ numérique; Endeavour; History of Humanities; International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing; Modernism/Modernity; Narrative; Post45, PMLA, Project Information Literacy; and Science, Technology & Human Values.
• Multiple (2–3 per year) promotion reviews for peer institutions, including Dartmouth, Toronto, Berkeley and others.
• Grant review for The American Academy in Berlin, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation.
• Program Committee, International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Workshop on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying, 2018, 2022.
• Program Committee, Association for Computational Linguistics, Abusive Language Workshop, 2017 – 18.
• Member of A. Owen Aldridge Prize Committee, American Comparative Literature Association, 2017 – 2019.
• Advisory Board member, Critical AI.
• Design consulting for Diller Scofidio + Renfro, 2017.
• 2 years as a managing editor of Modernism/Modernity, 2010 – 12.
• 10+ years software development and user interface design, with employees including Microsoft, General Motors, The Greening of Detroit, MRI, MSU Libraries and Computing Provost 1996 – 04.
• 2+ years desktop publishing as assistant editor/researcher for Physician’s Press, 1998 – 00.