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You have entered Cosmic Scribbler. I'm a freelance writer and have covered issues such as digital technology, medicine including radiology and oncology, sex education, financial services technology, Web development, auditing, commercial real estate, banking, and legal issues.

I'm an assistant professor of communication at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. I've taught visual design, technical writing, Web design, and English literature and composition, in addition to literature and technical writing courses for ERAU's online campus.

I have a PhD in Texts and Technology and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Florida. The dissertation, titled Green Chairs, Fictional Phalluses, Infiltration, and Love on the Rocks: Medical Imaging Artifacts Blown Up, is a rhetorical study that explores the artifacts created by medical imaging technologies, using methodologies adapted from surrealists, semiologists, and visual artists - particularly Barthes and Brecht. Click here for a longer explanation, and click here to read the introduction and first chapter. It's really just about problem-solving.

Not long ago, I wrote a screenplay called Revelations in Plastic, which I would like to see on the silver screen.  If you or anyone you know has ties to the entertainment industry, contact me immediately.  In the event that you start a chain of events leading to my screenplay being purchased for a large, non-refundable figure, I would be grateful.

My MA thesis is a novella entitled Foodworld, recently published and available for an exorbitant price on Amazon.com. The story addresses fate versus freewill, and how people use technology and religion in similar ways to insulate themselves. The underlying problem is an electricity shortage that correlates with the internal power struggles faced by the characters in their quest for meaning and fulfillment.

Here are some papers, presentations, and pictures representing my "research":

Date
created		 Description File type
6/22/09
new		 Proposal entitled "The Aesthetics of Medical Imaging Artifacts: Considering Evil, Insomnia, and the Letter L" for Aesthetic Dimension of Visual Culture Conference in Prague October 20-21, 2009 HTML of proposal... Will open in Web browser.
6/19/09
new		 Proposal entitled "How Digital Text-Based Communication Sent Me Freefalling: Memoirs of a Gay Brechtian Parachutist" accepted for paper presentation at the PCAS ACAS 2009 Conference in Wilmington, North Carolina, October 1-3, 2009 HTML of proposal... Will open in Web browser.
6/7/09
new		 Foodworld: A Novella. Germany: VDM Verlag, 2009 Link to Amazon.com product listing. Synopsis here.
5/27/09
new		 Peer-refereed journal article. "The Machinery of Design: Playing with Brecht, the Surrealists, and Provocative Images." Design Principles & Practices: An International Journal 3.3 (2009): 165-72 PDF ... View PDF file. Article based on conference paper. See 7/28/08 entry for proposal.
2/17/09 Paper entitled "The Machinery of Design: Playing with Brecht, the Surrealists, and Provocative Images" presented at Third International Conference on Design Principles and Practices in Berlin, Germany See 5/27/09 article above above.
10/16/09 Panel presentation at the FCA conference, Communication Across the Disciplines, in Gainesville, Florida PDF of handout focusing on Environmental Communication.
10/9/08 Paper entitled "Medical Experiences, Visual Rhetoric, and Stories of Love: The Incredible Lightness of Being X-Rayed" presented at the Popular & American Culture Associations in the South annual conference in Louisville, Kentucky PDF of the paper and handout. (You must imagine the handout folded in half, as a booklet with Page 2 as the inside pages.)
7/28/08 Proposal accepted for paper presentation at the Third International Conference on Design Principles and Practices in Berlin, Germany, February 15-17, 2009 PDF of the proposal. Here is a link to the proposal on the conference site.
7/19/08 Proposal accepted for paper presentation at the Popular & American Culture Associations in the South annual conference in Louisville, Kentucky, October 9-11, 2008 PDF of the proposal.
6/1/08 Proposal accepted for panel presentation at the FCA conference, Communication Across the Disciplines, in Gainesville, Florida, October 16-18, 2008  HTML of proposal.
5/8/08 Dissertation approved May 7, 2008: Green Chairs, Fictional Phalluses, Infiltration, and Love on the Rocks: Medical Imaging Artifacts Blown Up PDF of the introduction and Chapter 1. Email me if you're interested in reading more.

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I wrote a booklet about artificial food coloring and children's behavior, in an effort to change school policies about food in the classrooms and lunchrooms: Chemical Colors, Brain Food & Children's Health.

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