Faculty
Students enter the CRDM program with a variety of intellectual interests, academic backgrounds, and employment experiences. The information below has been provided by the students themselves. Those who have included an email address are willing to respond to inquiries from prospective applicants to the program.
Ruffin Bailey
B.A. English Literature, N.C. State University, 1999
M.A. Early American Literature, University of South Carolina, 2006
[http://www.ruffinbailey.com/resume/files/vita.html]
Teaching Assignments: ENG 332
Research Interests: Humachine Language, Copyright Appropriation, Cultural Habitualization, Technical Politics, Rhetoric of Code
Home Town: Raleigh, NC
Publications/Presentations: "Inviting Subversion: Tmesis in Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto." The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto: Critical Essays, Ed. Nate Garrelts. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, 2006.
Alice Munderkin
B.A. Computer Science, Clemson, 2004
M.A. Technical Rhetoric, Georgia Tech, 2006
Teaching Assignments: COM 101
Research Interests: Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely --having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people`s hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
Home Town: Nantucket, MA
Publications/Presentations: This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me. There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs--commerce surrounds it with her surf.
Tom Smith
B.A. Communication, University of Ohio
M.A. Communication, Ohio State
Teaching Assignments: COM 202
Research Interests: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Home Town: Cleveland, Ohio
Publications/Presentations: Smith, Tom (2003). Going the extra binary mile. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of GPS Marathon, San Diego, May 2006.
“The virtual, the pressing crowd of incipiencies and tendencies, is a realm of potential. In potential is where futurity combines, unmediated, with pastness, where outsides are infolded and sadness is happy … The virtual is a lived paradox where what are normally opposites coexist, coalesce, and connect.”
—Brian Massumi,
Parables for the Virtual
