service · Dennis Tenen

I. Service & Community Development

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 – 15, 2019 – 20.
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.

Provost’s Advisory Committee on the Libraries, 2022 – 2026.
Senior Job Search Committee, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, AY 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.
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 –

Manuscript reviews for Cambridge, Columbia, Duke, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and W.W. Norton presses.
Article peer 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; History of Humanities; International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing; Modernism/Modernity; Post45, Project Information Literacy; and Science, Technology & Human Values.
Grant review for The American Academy in Berlin 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.
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.