T and T Alumni Lands Tenure Track Job
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.
T&T Alum Tom Cavanagh Appointed UCF's Vice Provost for Digital Learning
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 […]
T&T Student, Mia Tignor, Wins Poster Competition at HASTAC
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.”
Dr. Bryan Pijanowski and UCF Confront the Planet’s Current Biodiversity Crisis
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 […]
T&T Student Finalist in Startup Competition
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 […]
UCF to Host HASTAC Conference
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 […]
Three T&T Faculty Members Honored as Luminary Leaders
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.
UCF’s Graduate Programs Partner with University of Foggia in Italy
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 […]
Paving a Unique Path Through Texts and Technology
While completing his master’s degree, David Morton found himself at a crossroads. He knew he wanted to continue his education and pursue a doctoral degree, but wasn’t sure which of his many passions he most wanted to pursue. The inevitable question, “What am I going to do with my life,” lingered over his head and […]
T&T Student, Clayton Benjamin, Published in Textshop Experiments
Clayton Benjamin’s piece, “Conducting Place/Consulting Space: A Proposal to an Electronic Monument to Addiction,” was recently published in Textshop Experiments (volume 3, Summer 2017). Textshop Experiments is an open-access journal dedicated to extending Gregory Ulmer’s work. Using methodology from Ulmer’s Electronic Monuments, Benjamin’s article proposes the installation of a new monument at the John Wayne […]