Department of English at the University of Virginia

Books

The Cultural Logic of Computation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (forthcoming 2009).

Articles

• "Cultural Studies and the Discourse of New Media." In Paul Smith, ed., Cultural Studies: The Way Ahead (volume under review).
• "Minimalism Is Functionalism." Language Sciences (forthcoming).
• "Computers and Cultural Studies." In Robert Kolker, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies. New York: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
• "The Trouble with Normal English." Politics and Culture 2008 (1).
• "What Is Lost?" Flow 3:1 (September 2005).
• "The Interpretation of Nonconfigurationality." Language & Communication: An Interdisciplinary Journal 24:1 (January 2004). 1-22.
• "Computation, Gender, and Human Thinking." differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 14:2 (Summer 2003). 27-48.
• "Metadiversity: On the Unavailability of Alternatives to Information." Marc Bousquet and Katherine Wills, eds., Electronic Book Review: The Politics of Information (New York: Alt-X, 2003).
• Daev. Gl=umläia, "Hiiperlexicoasemeopara[=tastrophism: Geo-graphist-insenstiorsme." Postmodern Culture 12:1 (September 2001).
• "Toward a History of 'Language': Ong and Derrida." Oxford Literary Review 21 (1999). 73-90.
• "Quine, Derrida, and the Question of Philosophy." The Philosophical Forum 30:3 (September 1999). 163-186.
• "Quine's Ambivalence." Cultural Critique 38 (Winter 1997-1998). 5-38.
• "Rethinking Philosophy in the Third Wave of Feminism." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 12:3 (Summer 1997). 100-115.
• "Hypercapital." Postmodern Culture 7:1 (September 1996).

Humanities Computing Projects

• Cemaun Arapesh Digital Language Archive. (2005-08). Project directed by Lise Dobrin. Co-PI on grant administered under 2005-07 NEH/NSF Documenting Endangered Languages program.
• ecoComputing. (2005-06). Director of project to create links between ecological and environmental thinking and computer capabilities.
• East Cree Language Web. (2000-04). Project directed by Marie-Odile Junker and Louise Blacksmith. Developed prototypes used for successful grant proposal to Social Science and Humanities Research Council Canada (SSHRC). Content, technology and information design consultant to ongoing project.

Works in Progress & Under Review

• “Languages of the Global South: Toward a Cultural Politics of Linguistic Diversity.” (Under review at Public Culture.)
• “Culture Is What We Make It.” (In progress.)
• The Future of Computers and the Future of Culture. (In progress.)
• Standardization: The Open Question of Modernity. (In progress.)

Honors and Awards

• NEH Faculty Fellowship for The Cultural Logic of Computation (year leave, 2007-2008).
• Sesqui award (semester leave, Fall 2006). University of Virginia (2006-2007).
• Co-PI (with Lise Dobrin and Daniel Pitti) on NEH/NSF grant for Cemaun Arapesh Digital Language Archive under Documenting Endangered Languages program (2005).
• Arts & Sciences Summer Grant for work on The Cultural Logic of Computation. University of Virginia (2005).
  
• Arts & Sciences Summer Grant for work on The Cultural Logic of Computation. University of Virginia (2004).