Research Interests

I am still waiting for the concept-mapping tool that would allow me to accurately represent all of my interests and their interconnections. In the meantime, here is a non-exhaustive list in no particular order: twentieth century literature (especially Modernism), poetry, hypertext theory, new media/electronic literature, media theory, textual and editorial theory, and computer pedagogy. For some samples of my work in these areas, see my presentations page.

Currently, I am working as Instructional Technology Director for the College of Education at Morehead State University, where I am attached to the PT3 grant program. I am also a programmer at LinguaMOO, where I am experimenting with MOO as a platform for creating hypertextual online learning spaces. The Gromboolia Project, as I call it, is being re-constructed after its original home (CowTown MOO at The Ohio State University) developed serious technical problems.

Other artifacts of my research activities:

• Back in 1995, I was the first PhD student at the University of Georgia to propose hypertext as a field of specialization for my comprehensive exams. The proposal and reading list I submitted are by now extremely dated, but they represent a certain stage in my thinking about hypertext.
• Prospectus for an unwritten dissertation: Submitted in 1996 and abandoned in 2001, this project would have applied hypertext theory to the Cantos of Ezra Pound. I still think this would make an excellent project some day.
• Application for the Doctoral Consortium of Hypertext 98. Unfortunately, the Doctoral Consortium that year was cancelled, and I wound up not attending the conference, but I still like this document. It contains, among other things, an abstract of my Pound and hypertext project, a statement of research interests, a biographical sketch, and a "vision statement."
• Prospectus for an unwritten dissertation II: A second and final attempt to complete my dissertation lasted from 2002-2003. This project would have examined MOO as a platform for teaching literature. I am still working on the project, but the dissertation is, at last, dead.

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