research & writing

I have an interest digital text communication in a professional context as well as understanding how it mediates interpersonal relationships. I've also addressed some of the ways in which technology is affecting the field of medicine, particularly in the fields of surgery and radiology.

My dissertation, Green Chairs, Fictional Phalluses, Infiltration, and Love on the Rocks: Medical Imaging Artifacts Blown Up, outlines and applies a methodology for deciphering problems and producing new information by analyzing the artifacts produced by medical imaging technologies - text and images - emphasizing its own form as being the product of the apparatuses that produce it and therefore untrustworthy. The basic assumption is that every text contains the information necessary to solve problems of all sorts, though because of the limitations of this text in both form and authorial intellect, we may only reach a starting point for a solution herein. Further, the dissertation illustrates, primarily through narratives, how digital imaging technologies mediate our relationship with our doctors, illnesses, and our bodies.

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

Date created	Description	File type
01/04/12	Reviewed article on social structuring in virtual worlds for Space and Culture, a peer-reviewed print and online journal, featuring interdisciplinary research on culture and communication	Email for more information.
12/12/11	Proposal entitled "Nice to meet you. We have the same disease ... A Rhetorical Study of Online Peer-to-Peer Patient Communication," with co-presenter Dr. Matthieu Guitton, submitted for a paper presentation at the PCAS ACAS 2012 Conference in Boston April 11-14, 2012	HTML of proposal ... Will open in Web browser.
11/3/11	Proposal accepted to the College of Arts and Sciences for iPad 2	Email for access to proposal.
9/25/11	Grant proposal accepted by ERAU Center of Teaching and Learning for study comparing student perception of and performance using two types of discussion interfaces	Click here for PDF of proposal.
6/13/11	Proposal entitled "Inscribing Human Experience: a Status Update on Existentialism" submitted for an invited panel presentation the PCAS ACAS 2011 Conference in New Orleans October 6-8, 2011	Email for access to proposal.
4/27/11	Peer-refereed journal article "The Evolution of Medical Imaging Technologies: Electric Meat and the Physician's Shifting Gaze" published in Ea - Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology 2.3 (April 2011)	Click here for a PDF of this article. Click here for the published abstract in English and French and click here for the more "audio/visual" version (mine)
4/22/11	Paper entitled "Stones Removed from a Blond Mass of Electric Meat: A Short, Overly Dramatic Narrative About Medical Imaging Technologies and the Requiem Patient Data Cloud" presented at the PCA/ACA 2011 Conference in San Antonio, Texas	HTML of proposal... Will open in Web browser. View presentation schedule here.
3/26/11	Article entitled "Abstinence Mission at Odds with Evidence: Sticky Shame and Forbidden Pleasures" resubmitted for consideration to the American Journal of Sexuality Education.	Email for access to full text.
2/4/11	Paper entitled "Designing an Abstinence Mission: Sticky Shame, Bondage, Forbidden Pleasures, Hell, Purity & Reproductive Abundance" presented at the Fifth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices in Sapienza University of Rome, Italy	HTML of proposal... Will open in Web browser. See below for paper excerpt. Email for access to full text and handout.
1/17/11	Article submitted for consideration to the American Journal of Sexuality Education. Resubmitted with revisions 3/26/11.	Email for access to full text.
11/1/10	Proposal accepted for paper presentation at the PCA/ACA 2011 Conference in San Antonio, Texas, April 20-23, 2011	HTML of proposal... Will open in Web browser. View presentation schedule here.
10/28/10	Applied for a 2011 American Fellowship Publication Grant to revise publication of Green Chairs, Fictional Phalluses, Infiltration, and Love on the Rocks: Medical Imaging Artifacts Blown Up for publication - not approved	Email me for access to this proposal.
10/28/10	Submitted proposal for Faculty Development Funds to present a paper at the Fifth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices in Rome, Italy - approved	Email me for access to this proposal.
7/19/10	Article submitted for consideration to Ea - Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology	Email me for access to this paper. Click here for the abstract in English and French.
7/4/2010	Proposal accepted for paper presentation at the Fifth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices in Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, February 2-4, 2011	HTML of proposal... Will open in Web browser.
6/8/10	Contract signed with Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY, for publication of dissertation, 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.
6/5/10	Proposal entitled "The Abstinence Mission: Emissions, Taboos, Hell, Purity & Reproductive Abundance" accepted for paper presentation at the PCAS ACAS 2010 Conference in Savannah, Georgia, October 7-9, 2010 - but withdrawn from the conference	HTML of proposal... Will open in Web browser.
4/1/10	Paper entitled "How Digital Text Communication Drives Desire: Lies, Love, Vengeance & the Vortex of Lost Sensation" presented at Popular & American Culture Associations annual conference in St. Louis, Missouri	Email me for access to this paper.
1/8/10	Essay submitted for consideration to the American Communication Journal	Email me for more information about this submission.
12/9/09	Proposal accepted for Popular & American Culture Associations annual conference in St. Louis, Missouri March 31-April 3, 2010	HTML of proposal... Will open in Web browser.
10/1/09	Paper entitled "How Digital Text-Based Communication Sent Me Freefalling: Memoirs of a Gay Brechtian Parachutist" presented the PCAS ACAS 2009 Conference in Wilmington, North Carolina	Email me for access to this paper.
6/22/09	Proposal entitled "The Aesthetics of Medical Imaging Artifacts: Considering Evil, Insomnia, and the Letter L" rejected for Aesthetic Dimension of Visual Culture Conference in Prague October 20-21, 2009	HTML of proposal... Will open in Web browser.
6/19/09	Proposal entitled 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	Foodworld: A Novella. Germany: VDM Verlag, 2009	Link to Amazon.com product listing. Synopsis here.
5/27/09	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.
10/16/08	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.
3/21/08	"Visions of Love, Radiology & Green Chairs" ... Paper presented at the PCA/ACA annual conference in San Francisco	PDF of the handout ... View PDF file. Requires Adobe Acrobat. Email me if you're interested in the paper or visual presentation.
11/08/07	"Jugular Trouble" ... Paper presented at the FCEA annual conference in Fort Pierce	PDF of the handout ... View PDF file. Requires Adobe Acrobat. Email me if you're interested in the paper.
06/26/06	An essay in response to the prospectus defense meeting: "How the Prospectus Defense Meeting Shaped My Dissertation Project or What I Learned Sitting at the Table of Truth"	PDF ... View PDF file.
06/23/06	Dissertation prospectus defended and approved on 06/23/06	PDF ... View PDF file.
05/11/06	My qualifying exam: an abstract that describes my dissertation prospectus ... sort of a proposal for a proposal?	PDF ... View PDF file.
04/19/06	"A Resurrection of Love: Fictional Phalluses in a Mechanical Age" - An essay about medicine, of sorts	PDF ... View PDF file.
04/12/06	A response to Stanley's "Women Hold Up Two-Thirds of the Sky”	HTML ... Will open in Web browser
03/01/06	A brief, visual response to Haraway's "“Otherwordly conversations; Terran Topics; Local Terms”	HTML ... Will open in Web browser. Note: Contains audio that will not play automatically in Mozilla. It does seem to work in IE.
02/22/06	A brief, visual response to Harding's "Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology"	HTML ... Will open in Web browser. Note: Maximize your browser window or text will overlap image.
02/08/06	A brief, visual response to Stone's The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age	HTML ... Will open in Web browser. Note: Contains audio that will not play automatically in Mozilla. It does seem to work in IE. Takes a while to load page.
02/01/06	A brief, visual response to Laquer's "Destiny is Anatomy"	HTML ... Will open in Web browser.
01/11/06	"Stones Removed" - An essay about observations of a laparoscopic cholecystectomy	PDF ... View PDF file.
04/21/05	The Brain: Mindless Matter discusses how pervasive use of brain scans for comparative studies of errant behaviors may increase the number of behaviors we consider errant and increase our desire to achieve a physical state of normalcy through drugs	PDF ... View PDF file.
04/14/05	A Short Histopictographicalgrammatical Story of the Internet, which is not a mockery of anything whatsoever.	HTML ... Will open in Web browser. Might take time to fully download background music (Greenday).
03/31/05	A brief response to The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich	DOC ... Download Word file.
03/23/05	A brief response to The Electronic Word by Richard Lanham	DOC ... Download Word file.
03/18/05	An expressive interpretation of my daughter's chest x-ray	HTML ... Will open in Web browser. Right-click on image to save JPEG.
03/09/05	A video that addresses brain scans, insanity, and normalcy	WMV ... (2.5MB) Windows Media Player will play automatically.
02/23/05	A summary of 480 years' worth of technological development, based on Leonardo and the Internet by Thomas Misa	PPS ... (1.4MB) Download PowerPoint presentation, minus its original Gregorian chants. Click here to read only the text - in rhyme.
02/16/05	A brief response to The Languages of Edison's Light by Charles Bazerman	DOC ... Download Word file.
02/09/05	A brief response to When Old Technologies Were New by Carolyn Marvin	DOC ... Download Word file.
02/02/05	A brief response to When Information Came of Age by Daniel Headrick	DOC ... Download Word file.
01/26/05	A brief response to Plato's Phaedrus.	DOC ... Download Word file.
01/19/05	A brief response to Orality and Literacy by Walter Ong	DOC ... Download Word file.
12/04/04	Imagining the Human Body discusses how advances in radiology are affecting the way that patients view their illness and bodies, along with the doctor/patient relationship	HTML ... Created in Word and converted to HTML. Click here to download actual Word file.
10/29/04	"Medical Imaging Technology" begins to show how these technologies are changing medicine and culture	ZIP ... (8.6MB) Unzip PowerPoint presentation with viewer. You should hear music and see moving text. If you don't, it's not working properly.

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