Ph.D., English, University of Toronto (Toronto, ON), 2001
M.A., English, University of Virginia, 1992
B.A., English, University of Virginia, 1990
Publications
Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original 'Adventure' in Code and in Kentucky. Digital Humanities Quarterly 1.2. August 2007.
Dennis G. Jerz and David Thomas. "Cave Gave Game: The Subterranean as Game." Unpublished manuscript, 2005. (Accepted for a book project that was dropped by the editors.)
"Football Slouches Toward a Former Women's College." Inside Higher Ed. Editorial. January 2005.
"The Bane of the President's Existence." Lore: An E-Journal for Teachers of Writing. Contribution to special section, "Digressions: Reflections on Teaching -- Academic Blogging." January 2005.
"(Meme)X Marks the Spot: Theorizing Metablogging in terms of Dawkins's Meme and Reddy's Conduit." BlogTalks: First European Conference on Weblogs. Vienna: Zentrum fur Wissenschaftliche Forschung und Dienstleistung. 67-82. (2003)
"On the Trail of the Memex: Vannevar Bush, Weblogs, and the Google Galaxy" Dichtung Digital. 2003
Technology in American Drama, 1920-1950: Soul and Society in the Age of the Machine Greenwood Press, 2003.
Achievements
Assistant Professor of English: Technical Writing University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (1998-2003)
Instructor: Engineering Writing Centre Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering University of Toronto (1996-1998)