Department Archives: Texts and Technology Ph.D.

At the recent Social Venture Competition, doctoral student David Thomas Moran pitched his idea to use real-time data to enhance public transportation. University of Central Florida doctoral student David Thomas Moran and his company, Omnimodal, LLC, which uses real-time data to enhance the quality, efficiency and reliability of public transportation in car-centric metropolitan cities, took […]

Texts and Technology Assistant Professor, Mel Stanfill, organized the “Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Texts and Technology: A Graduate Symposium,” November 29, in the Burnett Honors College.           Presentations included – Panel 1: Historical Approaches to Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Texts and Technology When will Puerto Rico become the 51st State? Alicia Duffy […]

Texts and Technology alumni Marci Mazzarotto (2017) was offered a tenure-track position in Digital Communication at Georgian Court University, a small liberal arts Catholic university in central New Jersey.

Dr. Tom Cavanagh (T&T 2006) was appointed in August 2017 as the University of Central Florida’s new Vice Provost for Digital Learning, overseeing the Center for Distributed Learning, the Office of Instructional Resources, and new digital initiatives that will positively impact student retention, engagement, success, and access. Dr. Cavanagh will continue to lead efforts for […]

Mia Tignor was one of three winners of the Electronic Poster competition at HASTAC, held in Orlando, November 3-4, 2017. Her poster is titled “Critical Cataloging: Examining LCSH as Text.”

Participants listened closely as noted Sound Ecologist, Dr. Bryan Pijanowski, presented Seven Sonic Pathways to Address A Silent Wicked Problem: A Call to Arms for Scholars in the Sciences and Humanities to Join Forces to Confront the Planet’s Current Biodiversity Crisis for faculty and students on November 1.  Dr. Pijanowski works at Purdue University as Professor and […]

Omnimodal, a transportation tech startup co-founded by David Thomas Moran ‘14 and Nathan Selikoff ‘04, was one of nine finalists admitted into the Central Florida Social Enterprise Accelerator (CFL SEA) program committed to creating positive social change through entrepreneurship. The first program of its kind in Central Florida, CFL SEA will help local entrepreneurs in […]

Collaborations of the digital and humanities worlds will be presented at an international gathering Nov. 3-4 at the University of Central Florida to look at new ways of teaching and research in an age when many say the printed word is no longer the main medium for education and its distribution. The conference for the […]

Congratulations to Anastasia Salter, Stephanie Vie, and Pavel Zemliansky for making a positive impact on the world!  These T&T faculty members were honored at UCF’s inaugural Luminary Award presentation  for dreaming big and making positive change in the world through their work. Read more.

As program director for UCF’s College of Arts & Humanities’ doctoral program in Texts & Technology, I am working with Dr. Pierpaolo Limone University of Foggia in eastern Italy to develop a graduate exchange program between our two institutions. I was the third UCF faculty member to travel to Foggia this fall to further this […]