I teach classes in literature, literary theory, and electronic media. My research draws on the fields of literary criticism, new media studies, philosophy, and graphic design theory in an effort to think about how emerging media reconfigure our reading and writing practices. I'm interested in trying to understand how cultural productions in the digital realm engage in critical (and at least potentially transformative) ways with their technical, social, and economic contexts.

I'm currently engaged in a book project, Literary Motion Graphics: Kinetics, Poetics, and Politics in the Culture of New Media, a study of emerging forms of electronic literature that incorporate animated text and moving images. I'm also conducting research on how hotels and hotel labor have been represented in the literature of Hawai‘i.

I have been involved in a number of community- and school-based technology projects in Hawai‘i, most recently Pāku‘i ‘Onaehana (Connecting Technology), an effort to integrate digital video and multimedia development into the middle-school Hawaiian Language Immersion curriculum.

I also give workshops on desktop publishing and writing for the Web as part of the Pacific New Media program at the UHM Outreach College.

My web page lists recent publications and upcoming talks.

(Each of the four links above opens a new browser window.)

Areas of Interest
electronic media, literature and technology, literary theory, cultural studies

Education
BA, English, Moorhead State University
MA Comparative Literature, MA English, University of Texas-Austin
PhD Comparative Literature, University of Texas-Austin