Teaching & Advising

2025 – 26

• Writing AI.
• Sociology of Literature
• Conspiratorial Thought in American Culture.
• Contemporary Civilization. Undergraduate seminar. Columbia Core, yearlong.

2024 – 25

• Narrative. Graduate seminar on narrative theory from literary studies to sociology and the philosophy of mind and language.
• English MA Seminar ENGL GR5001. A comprehensive introduction to the field of literary studies for graduate students.
• Contemporary Civilization. Undergraduate seminar. Columbia Core, yearlong.

2023 – 24

• Literature in the Age of Artificial Intelligence ENGL 4728. The long history of literature composed with, for, and by machines.
• Formal Methods in Text Analysis. Formal methods in literary / text analysis for graduate students, alongside a gentle introduction to NLP in Python.
• Contemporary Civilization. Undergraduate seminar. Columbia Core, yearlong.
• The Business Story. Works in this genre will lead us to profound philosophical questions about collective intelligence, personal belonging, the emergence of institutional agency, and the feeling of personal powerlessness in the face of large bureaucracies.
• Introduction to Language and Computation. Textual analytics for undergrads, from word to sentence, story, and corpus.

2020 – 21

• English MA Seminar ENGL GR5001. A comprehensive introduction to the field of literary studies for graduate students.
• Contemporary Civilization. Undergraduate seminar. Columbia Core, yearlong.

2019 – 20

• Literature in the Age of Artificial Intelligence ENGL 4728. The long history of literature composed with, for, and by machines.
• English MA Seminar ENGL GR5001. A comprehensive introduction to the field of literary studies for graduate students.
• Contemporary Civilization. Undergraduate seminar. Columbia Core, yearlong.

2018 – 19

• Textual Formations ENGL/HIST W84031. The physicality of text from characters, to words, sentences, paragraphs, pages, books, and archives. Graduate and undergraduate seminar with a lab component.
• Literature Humanities HUMA C1001/2. Western Literature and Philosophy from Homer to Zora Neale Hurston. Undergraduate seminar. Columbia Core, yearlong.

2017 – 18

• Technologies of Dissent ENGL W4911. Media studies, critical computing. Graduate and undergraduate enrollment, fall.
• Metaphor and Media CLEN W4910. A survey of major works on metaphor, beginning with Aristotle and ending with contemporary cognitive and media theory. Graduate and undergraduate enrollment, spring.
• Literature Humanities. Western Literature and Philosophy from Homer to Zora Neale Hurston. Undergraduate seminar. Columbia Core, yearlong.

Earlier Teaching (Pre-2017)

• Form, Formula, Format CLEN G6537. Literary theory. Graduate Seminar, fall. Undergraduate lecture, spring.
• Contemporary Civilization. Undergraduate seminar. Columbia Core, yearlong.
• Computing in Context: Textual & Literary Scholarship. CSEN W1002 w/ Matt Jones (History), Adam Cannon (Computer Science), and Karl Sigman (Economics). Computational approaches to the study of literature. Lecture, spring.
• Code & Poetry ENGLW4911. Lecture. Topics in new media studies and literary theory, fall.
• Contemporary Civilization. Undergraduate seminar. Columbia Core, yearlong.
• Coding for Human(s|ists). Lecture & lab. University of Victoria, Canada. Digital Humanities Summer Institute, summer 2015.
• Illicit Knowledge ENGL G6915/3915. Media theory, science and technology studies. Seminar & DH lab, spring.
• Media Archeology ENGL G6921. Graduate seminar, topics in new media studies, fall.
• Contemporary Civilization. Undergraduate seminar. Columbia Core, yearlong.
• Foundations of Computing for Data Science Journalism JOUR J4001. Lecture & lab. Lede Program. Graduate School of Journalism, summer 2014.
• Beyond the Human CLEN W3770. Seminar. Topics in new media studies, spring.
• Hacking the Archive ENHS W4983. Seminar & DH lab w/ Matthew Connelly, fall.
• Literature Humanities HUMA C1001. Undergraduate seminar. Columbia Core, yearlong.

Doctoral Advising

• Chelsey Barbar (Teachers College), “Cyborg Composing: Feeling Specters in the Web of AI Intra-Actions,” dissertation defense, outside reader.
• Julia Walton (CU English), Game Theory / Media Studies reading list 2024.
• Ramathi Bandaranayake (CU English), History and Philosophy of Science reading list, 2024.
• Alijan Ozkiral (NYU English), “Iteration, New Media,” dissertation committee, 2023–
• Naomi Michalowicz (CU English), “Psychometrics and the Twentieth-century Novel,” Dissertation Defense Com., June 2023. “Narratology,” Reading list, Oral Exam Com. 2018 – 19.
• Jonathan Reeve (CU English), “Computational Approaches to the Study of Literary Style,” Reading list. Oral Exam Com., 2017 – 18. Dissertation Com., Second reader, April 2023.
• Graham Sack (CU English), “Simulation Fiction: Models of Narrative & Literary Culture,” Dissertation Com. Chair, 2014 – 2021.
• Eduardo Pavez, “Metaphor Theory” Reading List, Oral Exam Com., 2020 – 2021.
• Sierra Eckert (CU English), Title TBD, Second Reader, Dissertation Defense Com., July 2020.
• Tracy O’Neill (CU Journalism), “The Politics and Aesthetics of the Popular Creative Writing Manual,” External Reader, Dis. Def. Com., April 2020.
• Neil Ziolkowski (CU Germanic), “Reading Orientation: Two Case Studies in Modernist Prose,” External Reader, Dis. Def. Com., November 2019.
• Vera Senina (CU Slavic), Minor Colloquium on Discourse Analysis, Committee Member, November 2019.
• Sean Thomas O’Neil (CU History), “The Art of Signs: Symbolic Notation and Visual Thinking in Early Modern Europe, 1600–1800,” External Reader, Dis. Def. Com., August 2019.
• Milan Terlunen (CU English), “Literary Theory” Reading list, Oral Exam Com., 2018 – 19.
• Maxwell Foxman (CU Communications), “Playing with Virtual Reality: Early Adopters of Commercial Immersive Technology,” External Reader, Dis. Def. Com., Spring 2018. Assistant Professor of Media Studies/Game Studies at the University of Oregon.
• Yuliya Grinberg (CU Anthropology), “Sensored: Quantified Self, Self-Tracking, and the Limits of Radical Transparency,” External Reader, Dis. Def. Com., Spring 2018. Former consultant at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, as of 2020 holding a tenure-track appointment in the Department of Anthropology at Drew University.
• Agie Markiewicz (Teachers College), “College Student Literacy Practices in Online Asynchronous Discussion Spaces,” External Reader, Dis. Def. Com., Spring 2018. Placed as Director, Pace University Writing Center.
• Sierra Eckert (CU English), “Sociology of Literature” Reading list, Oral Exam Com., 2016 – 17.
• Phillip Polefrone (CU English), “Technology and Society” Reading list, Oral Exam Com., 2015 – 16.
• Jessica Hallock (CU English), “Literary Theory” Reading list, Oral Exam Com., 2015 –
• Alice Boone (CU English), “The Progress of Error: or, the Recursive 18th Century,” Dis. Def. Com., Spring 2014.

MA Advising

• Nicola Green (CU English), “Design Fiction to Product,” MA thesis advisor 2024.
• Gabrielle Dacosta (CU English), “The Reading Self in George Jackson’s Soledad Brother,” MA thesis advisor, 2016 – 17.
• Maxine Arndt (CU English), “Women and Animals in The Woman Warrior and My Year of Meats,” MA thesis advisor, 2016 – 17.
• Gianmarco Saretto (CU English), Academic advisor, 2014 – 15.
• Florence Wan Yu Ang (CU English), Academic advisor, 2017 – 18.
• Isabel Guan (CU English), Academic advisor, 2017 – 18.
• Jeremy Stevens (CU English), Academic advisor, 2014–15.
• Erica Grove (CU English), Academic advisor, 2013 – 14.
• Becky Bort (CU English), Academic advisor, 2013 – 14.

Undergraduate Advising

• Jenny Leana Fotso Ngompe, Deep Fakes (digital ethnography), senior thesis, AO 2024–25.
• Sandra Eunsol Han, Gendered AI, senior thesis, AO 2023-24.
• Rahmah Amjad Badran, digital ethnography, senior thesis, Spring 2024.
• Sharla Kirkpatrick, GSAS Summer Research Program, 2021.
• Bethel Ikenna Adiele, Laidlaw Foundation Scholar, 2021.
• Adiba Hussein, Barnard Summer Research Institute, 2021.
• Jungwoo Park, Laidlaw Scholar, summer 2020.
• Valeria Arbonies (University of Puerto Rico), Columbia Leadership Alliance Mellon Mays Initiative Scholar, summer 2020.
• Gabrielle Agnes Kloppers, “Fallout: New Vegas and Conflicting Representations of Temporality,” Senior Thesis, spring 2019.
• Elena Goldstein, “Big Brother all Grown Up,” independent study, 2014.
• Christopher Brennan, “Personal Social Networks and Deliberative Democracy in the Russian Anti-Putin Protest Movement,” Senior Thesis, 2014.
• Jessica Tyler, “The New Opposition, The Russian Language Blogosphere and its Impact on Public Discourse,” Senior Thesis, 2013.

Before 2012 (Harvard University, Tufts University)

• Experimental Criticism, Lecturer w/ Prof. Jeffrey Schnapp. Seminar & DH lab, Spring 2012.
• The Art of Numbers, Teaching Fellow (TF) with Prof. Alyssa Goodman, Spring 2008 & 2010. Undergraduate seminar, data visualization, quantitative reasoning.
• Literature Tutorial, Harvard Tutor in the of Fall 2007 through Spring 2010.
• Self, Serenity, and Vulnerability, TF w/ Profs. Roberto Unger & Michael Puett, Fall 2007 and Spring 2010. Moral reasoning.
• 19th Century English Literature Survey, TF w/ Prof. Matthew Kaiser, Spring 2009.
• Future of the Book, Tufts University Lecturer, Spring 2008, undergraduate seminar.
• Self, Freedom, and Existence, TF w/ Prof. Richard Moran, Fall 2008. Moral reasoning.
• 19th Century Russian Literature Survey, TF w/ Prof. William Mills Todd III, Spring 2006.
• 20th Century Russian Literature Survey, TF w/ Prof. Svetlana Boym, Fall 2005.