*CURRICULUM VITAE* (Updated October, 2012)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Student (4th year), UC Berkeley
Comparative Literature department; French, English, German literatures
Gender & Women’s Studies department designated emphasis
New Media department designated emphasis
Working dissertation: “Virtually Painless: Enacting Sadomasochism through Media”
Advisor: Prof. Michael Lucey
Degree expected May, 2016
B.A. in Literature and Creative Writing, Bard College
Gender and Sexuality department concentration
Thesis: “Perverse: the Language of Transgression”
Degree received May, 2007
PRESENTATIONS
“Fucking Fiction, Fucking Fact: Alternate Fantasies and Real Histories in Lost Girls“
American Comparative Literature Association Conference, April, 2012
“‘J’ai un coq dans les entrailles’: Bodily Invasion in the Short Stories of Gisèle Prassinos”
UC Berkeley French Department Conference “Edges of Exposure,” April, 2012
“About the Child, by the Child: the Surrealist Girl as Writer”
Pacific American Comparative Literature Association Conference, October, 2011
“Shakespeare the First-Person Shooter: Reading Video Games like Literature”
Gotland Games Conference, University of Gotland, May, 2011
“Re-Writing Lolita: Nabokov Fan Fiction and the Reader as Literary Rebel”
Stanford University Comparative Literature Conference “Agency and Its Limits,” April, 2011
“Designing LGBT Characters in Video Games”
Gotland University “Games and Human Rights” Lectures, December, 2010
PUBLICATIONS
“Game as Sex and Sex as Game: Playing with the Erotic Body in Virtual Worlds”
Rhizomes, Fall 2011
“Princess Peach the Porn Star: Agency and Interactivity in Video Game Slash Fiction”
Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?, Re/Search Publications, Spring, 2010
Sex and technology journalist for The Village Voice, Wired, The Economist, Forbes, etc.
Fall 2006 through Summer 2009
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Reading and Composition (R&C) Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley
Four semesters as Comparative Literature solo teacher
Sample course titles: “Gender, Sexuality, and Monstrosity,” “Close Reading Technology”
American Cultures Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley
Summer, 2012 cross-listed course
Title: “Race, Gender, and Sexuality in American Gothic Fiction”
English as a Second Language Instructor, Grasse, France
French Government “English assistant” for 2007 – 2008 school year
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Literature: surrealism, Sade, the gothic, subversive female voices, Gisèle Prassinos, literary pornography, sadomasochism, fantasies of girlhood.
Gender and Sexuality: queer theory, the “perverse,” gender and sexual agency, the death drive, gender as construct, language and the performance of desire.
New Media: video games, virtual environments, cybersex, fan fiction, online pornography, disembodied performance of self, digital bodies.
