Research Interests

Film and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Rhetoric and Composition, Literary Theory, Memory and Monuments, Digital Humanities, Citizen Curating, Delusion and Denialism, Right-Wing Discourse.

Publications

Books

• Lewandowsky, Stephan, et al. The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars’ Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding. 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15510834

• Reimagining the Humanities. Co-edited with Anastasia Salter. Parlor Press.

• Strategies for Conducting Literary Research. Co-authored with John Venecek. Pressbook. https://pressbooks.online.ucf.edu/strategies2e
• Deadly Delusions: Right-Wing Death Cult

Television Episodes

• Music and Found Photographs. Half-hour televised interview about my research projects and creative work.  UCF Profiles. The UCF Channel, WBCC-DT.  https://youtu.be/YvyX4Vszl14 

• Monument to Lost Data.  Half-hour televised interview about my research project on lost data. UCF Profiles. The UCF Channel, WBCC-DT.  https://youtu.be/tuVKetm7810

   

Articles/Essays

• Mauer, Barry and Andy Norman. “Reducing Information Pollution.” Mental Immunity Project. https://mentalimmunityproject.substack.com/p/reducing-information-pollution October 21, 2024.

• Mauer, Barry. “Drama Triangles in Nadine Gordimer’s ‘Once Upon a Time’ and the War in Gaza.” Postcolonial Interventions. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13135992. 2024

• “The List as an Invention Process.”  Barry Mauer and John Venecek. Text Shop Experiments, Volume 07. http://textshopexperiments.org/textshop07/the-list-as-an-invention-process

• “A Trip Down Market Street: A Century of Eureka Moments.” Co-authored with David Morton. The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.

  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01439685.2022.2096795

• “Sew the Bear: A Meditation on the Place of the List in Academic Life.” Barry Mauer and Craig Saper. Hyper Rhizome. http://hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz19/gallery/3-mauer-saper-bear.html

• “Introduction to Deadly Delusion #5” and “Deadly Delusions, Issue 5: Pictures in Our Heads.” Antae Journal. https://antaejournal.com/#/issue/5c05b474fca8a30e4ec88286
• "Pulse: A Testimonial.” Text Shop Experiments, Volume 5. http://textshopexperiments.org/textshop05/pulse-a-testimonial 
• “A Repulsive Monument to Stone Mountain and Black Resistance.” Rose Library Blog. https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/marbl/2017/05/23/a-repulsive-monument/    
• “The Citizen Curating Project Confronts the Pulse Nightclub Shooting.”The St. John’s University Humanities Review. Volume 14, Issue 1, Spring 2017. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-humanities-as-activism_us_5945cdb4e4b024b7e0df4cc8

• "The New Age of Eliminationism in America: A Conversation with David Neiwert and Barry Mauer in Orlando, Florida, April 19, 2017.” Medium. https://medium.com/@barrymauer.uff/the-new-age-of-eliminationism-in-america-a-conversation-with-david-neiwert-and-barry-mauer-in-ea472876bff6

• "A Call for Experimentation in Archiving," Illuminations: Vol. 5: No. 1, Article 6. http://stars.library.ucf.edu/illuminations/vol5/iss1/6ce
• “Making Repulsive Monuments.” Barry Jason Mauer and John Venecek. Article and comic. Text Shop Experiments, Volume 2. http://textshopexperiments.org/textshop02/making-repulsive-monuments 
• “Introduction,” “A Glossary for Greg Ulmer's Avatar Emergency,” and “A Glossary for Greg Ulmer's Electronic Monuments.” Ulmer Text Shop. http://textshopexperiments.org/textshop01/ulmer-glossaries 
• “Deadly Delusions, Issue 4: Smart Idiots.” Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and     
• “Deadly Delusions, Issue 3: The Roots of Denial.” Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture. http://tundra.csd.sc.edu/itineration/dd3    
• “Deadly Delusions: Madness and the Cult of the Right.” Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture. October 15, 2014. http://www.itineration.org/dd2. 28 pages.
• “Deadly Delusions, Issue 1: Eliminationist Rhetoric in Mainstream Political Discourse.” Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture. http://tundra.csd.sc.edu/itineration/dd1 
• “The Mystory: The Garage d’Or of Ereignis.” Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses. (RAEI). "Performing Culture, Performing Identity." http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/36321.    
• Control Room and the Staging of War.” InMedia. http://inmedia.revues.org/680    
• Oracles and Divinations: A Monument to Biocultural Diversity Loss.” Excursions. http://www.excursions-journal.org.uk/index.php/excursions/article/view/58/117    
• “Glenn Gould and the New Listener.” Performance Research 15(3). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13528165.2010.527216?journalCode=rprs20 
• Lost Data, 2.” Rhizomes 18: Imaging Place. http://www.rhizomes.net/issue18/mauer/index.html    
• "The Epistemology of Cindy Sherman: A Research Method for Media and Cultural Studies." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature: Volume 38, No. 1.
• "Speaking Freely in a Time of War." Queen: A Journal of Rhetoric and Power.
• "Musical Writing." Sapaan: Volume 3.
• "Digital Media Revisited Review." Article-length review. Rhizomes. Issue 8.
• "The Synergy of Location and Narrative Performance." Co-authored with Tyler Fisher. The West Virginia University Philological Papers 49.
• "Space-based Middleware for Loosely-coupled Distributed Systems." Charles E. Hughes, Burnett, Mauer, Moshell, and Stapleton. Proceedings of SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering, Volume 4863.
• "The Found Photograph and the Limits of Meaning." Enculturation 3.2: Visual Rhetoric.
• "Film Stills Methodologies: A Pedagogical Assignment." Cinema Journal, the Official Journal of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies: 041:1.
• "Electronic Monumentality." Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, volume 1, number 3.

Artwork

• The Invisible Parameter. “Do It!” Exhibition at UCF Art Gallery. Includes work by Barry Mauer and by 10 students in his ENG 6810: “Theories of Texts and Technology” seminar. Feb. 23, 2016 – Mar. 4, 2016.    

• “Curating the Mystory: Ideology and Invention in the Theory Classroom.” Slide presentation/Video exhibit piece introducing three student-produced mystories.  The Encounter: Baalu Girma and Zora Neale Hurston, UCF Art Gallery, Jan. 11-Feb 18.

   

Book Sections/Chapters

• “Citizen Curation.” Reimagining the Humanities. Eds: Barry Mauer and Anastasia Salter. Parlor Press.

• “The Cognitive Immune System: The Mind’s Ability to Dispel Pathological Beliefs.” Global Modernity in the Shadow of Pandemic: A Cross-Disciplinary Update. Eds. Hatem Akil and Simone Maddanu. Amsterdam University Press.

• "Curating the Mystory: Ideology and Invention in the Theory Classroom," Putting Theory into Practice in the Contemporary Classroom: Theory Lessons. Becky McLaughlin. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

• “Teaching the Repulsive Memorial.” Co-authored with John Venecek, Patricia Carlton, Marcy Galbreath, Amy Larner Giroux, and Valerie Kasper. Producing Public Memory: Museums, Memorials, and Archives as Sites for Teaching “Writing.” Eds. Jane Greer and Laurie Grobman. Routledge. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281105966_Teaching_the_Repulsive_Memorial

• “Rigorous Infidelity: Whole Text Sampling in the Curatorial Work of Henri Langlois, Dewey Phillips, and Jean-François Lyotard.” Sampling across the Spectrum. Oxford University Press.  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260187493_Rigorous_Infidelity_Whole_Text_Sampling_in_the_Curatorial_Work_of_Henri_Langlois_Dewey_Phillips_and_Jean-Francois_Lyotard
• "Asynchronous Documentary: Buñuel’s Land Without Bread." Book chapter for Lowering the Boom: New Essays on the History, Theory and Practice of Film Sound, edited by Anthony Grajeda and Jay Beck. University of Illinois Press.
• "Nietzsche at the Apollo: An Experiment in Clipography." Book chapter for New Media/New Methods: The Turn from Literacy to Electracy, edited by Jeff Rice and Marcel O’Gorman. Parlor Press.
• "Proposal for a Monument to Lost Data." Book chapter for Studies In Writing, volume 17, Writing and Digital Media, edited by Luuk van Waes, Mariëlle Leijten, Christine M. Neuwirth. Elsevier Press.

Recordings

• “The Art of the Review - Episode 16: Reviewing as Criticism.” Interview with Robert Cassanello. H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online. https://networks.h-net.org/art-review-episode-16-reviewing-criticism    

Creative Publications

• “Pulse: A Consultation.” RICHES of Central Florida. June 8, 2017.   https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/citizen-curator-project/pulse--a-consultation and http://www.cah.ucf.edu/citizencurator/index.php/project2/
• “Home” and “I Want to Fall.” The Provo Canyon Review. http://theprovocanyonreview.net/barry-mauer.html. Volume 1, Issue 1. 
• Channel Switchers. Barry and Claire Mauer, from an idea by producer Jason Bell, who bought the screenplay and rights. 1999.

Book Reviews

• “Paul Clements, The Outsider, Art and Humour.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, no. 37, 2021, doi:10.20415/rhiz/037.r0 http://www.rhizomes.net/issue37/mauer.html

• "Review of Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction, by Benjamin Noys." Cultural Analysis: Volume 3.

Miscellaneous Publications

• “What Holds Us Back From Achieving a Better Society?” UCF Forum and Huffington Post. July 13. Also broadcast as a radio piece on WUCF, July 17, 2016.    

• “Censorship Is Not All Bad.” UCF Forum and Huffington Post. March 9, 2016. Also broadcast as a radio piece on WUCF, March 14, 2016.    
• “The United States Could Use a ‘Therapist General’” UCF Forum and Huffington Post. November 4, 2015. Also broadcast as a radio piece on WUCF, November 8, 2015.    
• “Rock and Roll and the Amateur Aesthetic.” Texts and Technology Blog.    

Awards

UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship 2024-25

MLA-EBSCO Collaboration for Information Literacy Prize 2023

For Mauer, Barry and John Venecek. Strategies for Conducting Literary

Research, 2e. Montreal: Pressbooks, 2022. 

UCF Senior Faculty Nominee for Andrew Carnegie Fellowship 2023

"Overcoming Pernicious Political Polarization with Mental Immunity

and the Existential Positioning System." Barry Mauer, PI.

UCF Champion of Undergraduate Research Award Runner Up 2023

UCF Digital Learning Course Redesign Initiative Extension 2021

Strategies for Conducting Literary Research, Barry Mauer, PI. $20,000                              

Pabst Steinmetz Foundation Arts and Wellness Innovation Award, 2020\

"Fables versus Urban Legends: Storytelling about Vaccines at the

Intersection of Ethnography and Epidemiology" Tyler Fisher, PI. $25,000

UCF College of Graduate Studies Grant  2019

Flickering Landscapes Conference. Barry Mauer, Principal Organizer, $5,000

UCF Office of Research and Commercialization Grant 2019

Flickering Landscapes Conference.. Barry Mauer, Principal Organizer, $2,000

Courses

• Fall 2025
• Spring 2026