Early Modern

Film, New Media, Theory

Education

• PhD in English, University of Virginia
• MA in English, University of Virginia
• BA in English, Wake Forest University

Research Interests

• Early Modern English literature
• Film and Media Studies
• Internet Studies/New Media Studies
• Teaching and Learning Technologies

Select Publications

• “Surprised by Sin and Incommensurability.” Special issue dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the publication of Stanley Fish’s Surprised By Sin. Milton Quarterly, 52: 333-348. First published May, 2019. doi:10.1111/milt.12269
• “Learning, Love, and the Freedom of the Double Bind.” Scholarly Milton, ed. Thomas Festa and Kevin J. Donovan (Clemson, South Carolina: Clemson University Press in association with Liverpool University Press, 2019), 107-122.
• “The Enfolded Sublime of Incarnate Immortality.” Immortality and the Body in the Age of Milton, ed. John Rumrich and Steven Fallon (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 23-38.
• “Temptation.” The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost, ed. Louis Schwartz (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 164-178.
• “A Personal Cyberinfrastructure,” in Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching, ed. Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt . Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2013. Anthologized from original publication in EDUCAUSE Review.
• Google Scholar

Affiliations

• Milton Society of America (life member)
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Doug Engelbart Institute

Courses

• ENGL 403: Milton
• ENGL 445: Form and Theory of Poetry
• ENGL 250: Reading Film
• ENGL 325: Early Modern Literature
• ENGL 385: Fiction into Film

Awards

• Campus Technology Innovators Award, "The Great VCU Bike Race Book," Teaching and Learning Division, 2016 
• Distinguished Instructor and Curriculum Co-Designer, “Connected Courses” Initiative, MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Research Hub (summer and fall, 2014)
• “Top 50 Innovators in Education,” Center for Digital Education/Converge, 2012 
• FOO (Friends of O’Reilly) Camp participant, O’Reilly Media, 2012
• Senior Fellow, Honors Residential College, Virginia Tech 2011-2013

Links

• “The Simple Secret of the Note jn Us All.” Keynote, I Annotate 2019, Washington D.C., May 22, 2019.
• “Doug Engelbart’s 1962 Framework: Augmenting Human Intellect.” Engelbart Symposium, “The Demo at 50,” Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California, December 9, 2018. 
• Open Ed 2012 Keynote: "Ecologies of Yearning." Vancouver BC.
• "Augmenting the Learning Dialogue Online: A Conversation with Gardner Campbell" Campus Technology, March 8, 2021.
• "No Digital Facelifts: Thinking the Unthinkable About Open Educational Experiences." Open Ed 2009, Vancouver BC.