Criical Infrastructure Studies
I’ve taught at Yale University and University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1979. The following are courses in my core teaching repertory during the last two decades — those that have made it into the digital age where I have syllabi that I retain.
Undergraduate Courses
English 25 — Literature and the Information, Media, and Communication Revolutions
English 113MI — Modern Literary Theory
in Literary Studies
English 146DS — Data Stories: Theory and Practice of Data-driven Narratives in the Digital Age
- Winter 2023 (Schedule) — co-taught with Leila Stegemoeller
- Winter 2022 (Schedule) — co-taught with Rebecca Baker
- Winter 2021 (Schedule) — co-taught with Edwin (“Teddy”) Roland
English 149 — Literature+ (Cross-Disciplinary Models of Literary Interpretation)
- Winter 2018 (Schedule) — co-taught with Jamal Russell
- Fall 2014 (Schedule)
- Fall 2013 (Schedule)
- Winter 2009 (Schedule) — co-taught with James Donelan
- Winter 2008 (Schedule)
English 197 — Hacking Literary Interpretation
English 197 — Close Reading and Distant Reading
in Literary Studies
English 197 — Introduction to Digital Humanities
Graduate Courses
English 238 — Critical Infrastructure Studies
English 238 — Digital Humanities: Introduction to the Field
English 236 — Literature+ (New Media & Literary Interpretation: Close, Distant, and Other Reading)
English 236 — Textuality and New Media Ecologies, 1600-2000
English 236 — Landscape and the Social Imaginary: Romantic Landscape and Cyberspace
English 591 — Doctoral Colloquium
