PhD in English with specializations in American Literature and Science & Literature from Indiana University, Bloomington. 

B.A. in English from University of Minnesota.

My research centers on the questions digital media practices and the global social formations they enable pose to understandings of self, community, gender, race, and nation that were elaborated in an age of print.  I am interested in theories of the posthuman as these raise crucial questions about the limits to various strains of humanism and encourage  active and critical thinking about what's human about the human in the past, present, and future.  I am especially interested in the contributions contemporary feminist and multicultural literature and theory and science fiction make to our understandings of the human as this work flags the shifting and often exclusionary practices that define and re-define the properly "human." 

Recent work explores evolutionary narratives in Jeffrey Eugenides' novel, Middlesex, Wes Anderson's film, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and Vernor Vinge's novel, Rainbow's End; texts that examine and reimagine the interrelations between the human, animal, and machine and their reproduction in surprising, socially and politically thought-provoking ways. 

“The Monstrosity of Media in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl and other Posthumanist Critiques of the Instrumental.” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, issue 63, vol. 21, no. 3 (Winter 2006): 62-101.

“Counter-Networks in a Network Society: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead.” Postmodern Culture, issue 16.3 (May 2006).
   
“Narrative Subjects Meet their Limits: John Barth’s ‘Click’ and the Remediation of Hypertext.” Contemporary Literature 46.2 (2005): 275-310.
 

“The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next”

Ursula K. Le Guin

"You're all getting incompletes!"

'Steve Zissou' in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou