D. Teaching and Advising

2020 – 21

• COCI C1101/2 Contemporary Civilization. Undergraduate seminar. Columbia Core, year-long.
• ENGL GR5001 English MA Seminar. A comprehensive introduction to the field of literary studies for graduate students.

2019 – 20

• ENGL 4728 Literature in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. The long history of literature composed with, for, and by machines.
• ENGL GR5001 English MA Seminar. A comprehensive introduction to the field of literary studies for graduate students.
• COCI C1101/2 Contemporary Civilization. Undergraduate seminar. Columbia Core, year-long.

2018 – 19

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

2017 – 18

• ENGL W4911 Technologies of Dissent. Media studies, critical computing. Graduate and undergraduate enrollment, fall.
• CLEN W4910 Metaphor and Media. A survey of major works on metaphor, beginning with Aristotle and ending with contemporary cognitive and media theory. Graduate and undergraduate enrollment, spring.
• HUMA C1002 Literature Humanities. Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy from Homer to Zora Neale Hurston. Undergraduate seminar. Columbia Core, year-long.

2016 – 17

• CLEN G6537 Form, Formula, Format. Literary theory. Graduate Seminar, fall. Undergraduate lecture, spring.
• COCI C1101/2 Contemporary Civilization. Undergraduate seminar. Columbia Core, year-long.

2014 – 15

• CSEN W1002 Computing in Context: Textual & Literary Scholarship. w/ Matt Jones (History), Adam Cannon (Computer Science), and Karl Sigman (Economics). Computational approaches to the study of literature. Lecture, spring.
• ENGL W4911 Code & Poetry. Lecture. Topics in new media studies and literary theory, fall.
• COCI C1101/2 Contemporary Civilization. Undergraduate seminar. Columbia Core, year-long.
• Coding for Human(s|ists). Lecture & lab. University of Victoria, Canada. Digital Humanities Summer Institute, summer 2015.

2013 – 14

• ENGL G6915/3915 Illicit Knowledge. Media theory, science and technology studies. Seminar & DH lab, spring.
• ENGL G6921 Media Archeology. Graduate seminar, topics in new media studies, fall.
• COCI C1101/2 Contemporary Civilization. Undergraduate seminar. Columbia Core, year-long.
• JOUR J4001 Foundations of Computing for Data Science Journalism. Lecture & lab. Lede Program. Graduate School of Journalism, summer 2014.

2012 – 13

• CLEN W3770 Beyond the Human. Seminar. Topics in new media studies, spring.
• ENHS W4983 Hacking the Archive. Seminar & DH lab w/ Matthew Connelly, fall.
• HUMA C1001 Literature Humanities. Undergraduate seminar. Columbia Core, year-long.

Doctoral Advising

• Graham Sack (CU English), “Simulation Fiction: Models of Narrative & Literary Culture,” Dissertation Committee Chair, 2014 – 2021
• Eduardo Pavez, “Metaphor Theory” Reading List, Oral Exam Com., 2020 – 2021.
• Sierra Eckert (CU English), Title TBD, Second Reader, Dis. Def. 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 Committee, 2018 – 19.
• Naomi Michalowicz (CU English), “Narratology,” Reading list, Oral Exam Committee 2018 – 19.
• Jonathan Reeve (CU English), “Computational Approaches to the Study of Literary Style,” Reading list, Oral Exam Committee, 2017 – 18. Dissertation Committee, Second reader, 2018 –
• 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

• 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

• Sharla Kirkpatrick, GSAS Summer Research Program, Summer 2021.
• Bethel Ikenna Adiele, Laidlaw Foundation Scholar, Summer 2021.
• Adiba Hussein, Barnard Summer Research Institute, Summer 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.