CURRICULUM VITAE
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EDUCATION |
  
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2006 |
Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania Dissertation: “Demiurgic Machines: The Mechanics of the Dada Text.” The thesis explores the genealogy of modernity as a set of aesthetic and cultural practices exemplified by Dada and its avatars and determined by the metaphorical system of the machine. Examining the works of Roussel, Breton, Duchamp and of other key artistic and literary figures from the period 1912-1922, I consider the way machines provide a working model for cultural production, one that involves a “demiurgic” organization of human thought and agency at the level of representation. Director: Prof. Jean-Michel Rabaté |
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MAY
2000
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M.A.
in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania |
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JUNE
1995
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B.A.
in English With Honors, Stanford University |
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1993-1994
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Oxford
University (Stanford Study Abroad) |
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1988
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Parson
School of Design, Summer Program |
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APPOINTMENTS
AND FELLOWSHIPS |
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| ROMANCE LANGUAGE APPOINTMENTS | |
| 2004-2005 |
Department
of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania Research Assistant for Professor Joan DeJean |
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2003-2004
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Department
of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania Instructor, French 130 (third-semester French), French 121 (second-semester French) |
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2000-2001
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Department
of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania Instructor, Italian 110 (1st-semester Italian) |
OTHER APPOINTMENTS |
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| 2004 |
Program
in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania Instructor, Comparative Literature 250: “Detective Fiction & Film Noir” |
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2002-2003
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2002-2003
U.F.R. d’études anglo-américaines, Université
Paris X Nanterre Instructor, English Language & Phonetics, Advanced Level |
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2002
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Department
of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Pennsylvania
TA, Russian 190: “Russian Origins of Terrorism” |
HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS |
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| 1999–Present |
William
Penn Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania |
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June
1995
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Nomination
for Best Senior Thesis, Stanford University |
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1988
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Parson
School of Design Study Grant |
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PAPERS AND CONFERENCES
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| “Purgative
or Purgatory? Dada Machine Art and the Politics of the Aura."
International Conference on the Arts in Society Edinburgh, Scotland, August 15-18, 2006. |
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| “Mapping
the Machinic Transcendental: Dada and Deleuze.” The Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) 2006 Convention Philadelphia, March 2-5, 2006. |
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| Chair
of Panel, “The Machine and the Modern Subject" NEMLA 2006 Convention, Philadelphia, March 2-5, 2006.
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| “Between
Mechanism and the Moral Law: Descartes’ Writings on Man-the-Machine.” The Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) 2005 Conference San Antonio, December 1-4, 2005
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| “Kafka’s Prague: Memory and Displacement.” Colloquium: “From the Archive to the Cinema and Beyond: New Perspectives on Franz Kafka.” Sponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences and Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, University of Pennsylania, October 20, 2000 |
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TEACHING AND RESEARCH
INTERESTS, LANGUAGES |
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TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS |
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| French
Language and Literature New York Dada and European Avant-Garde Late Modernism, Beckett and the Theater of the Absurd Cultural Studies: History of Technology, Gender, Nationalism and War Word and Image, Cinema Studies, Film Noir Literary Theory Continental Philosophy and the Enlightenment
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LANGUAGES |
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(native fluency) Spanish (superior) Italian (advanced) Czech (intermediate) |
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PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
AND ACADEMIC SERVICE |
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MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS |
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| Modern
Language Association (MLA) |
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| The
Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) |
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| The
Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) |
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ACADEMIC SERVICE |
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| 2004-Present |
Webmaster,
Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University
of Pennsylvania |
| 2005-2006 |
Director
of the Film Series for Graduate Employees Together University of Pennsylvania
(GET-UP), and of the GET-UP Film Festival “Where Do We Stand?”
November 9-11, 2006 |
| 2005-2006 |
Lit
Committee Chair, GET-UP |
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DESIGN
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE |
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1998-1999
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Gyroscopic
Design & Consulting, Seattle, Los Angeles Partner and Creative Director
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1996-1998
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Leo
Burnett Advertising, Prague, Czech Republic Art Director |
WEB DESIGN PROJECTS |
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| GET-UP
Film Project http://getuponline.org/filmproject |
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| Program
in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/CompLit |
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| Gyroscopic
Design & Consulting http://www.gyroscopic.com [no longer operational] |
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REFERENCES
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| Dr.
Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature,
University of Pennsylvania, jmrabate@english.upenn.edu |
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| Dr.
Gerry Prince, Professor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania,
gerry@babel.ling.upenn.edu
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| Dr.
Caroline Weber, Associate Professor of French (Barnard College), Columbia
University, cw2263@columbia.edu
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| Dr.
Kate McMahon, Director of the Language Program , University of Pennsylvania,
kmcmahon@ccat.sas.upenn.edu |
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| Dr.
Rita Copeland, Professor of Classical Studies and Chair of Comparative
Literature, University of Pennsylvania, rcopelan@sas.upenn.edu |