New York University

While a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University, I co-founded and co-organized two interdisciplinary lecture series with fellow graduate students.

2012-2014 Program: Media and Literature New York University, New York, NY

Co-organized with Brian Droitcour (Comparative Literature), Brady Fletcher (Media, Culture and Communication), Jacob Gaboury (Media, Culture and Communication), Matthew Hockenberry (Media, Culture and Communication), Ella Klik (Media, Culture and Communication), Xiaochang Li (Media, Culture and Communication), Ben Mendelsohn (Media, Culture and Communication), Carlin Wing (Media, Culture and Communication)

PROGRAM is a collaborative, interdisciplinary event series organized by graduate students within New York University’s departments of Media, Culture, and Communication, English, Cinema Studies, and Comparative Literature. The series presents talks that explore the cultural, historical, aesthetic, and political impact of software and programming logic.

The goal of the series is to create an interactive space for the exploration of emerging practices across media and literature, both online and off. To this end we have organized a series of events, in which a pair of prominent scholars will explore one particular methodological approach to the study of software’s impact on culture and literature.

Speakers: Matthew Fuller (Goldsmiths, University of London), Lev Manovich (The Graduate Center, CUNY), Noah Wardrip-Fruin (University of California, Santa Cruz), Lori Emerson (University of Colorado, Boulder), Ben Fino-Radin (Museum of Modern Art), Deborah Stratman (Filmmaker), Keller Easterling (Yale University), Erica Robles-Anderson (New York University), Matthew Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland), Wendy Hui-Kyong Chun (Brown University), Geoffrey Bowker (UC Irvine), Sara Hendren (Harvard University), Bernard Stiegler (Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation at the Pompidou Center in Paris), Ben Kafka (New York University)

2008-2011 Music, Language, Thought New York University, New York, NY

Co-organized with Michael Gallope (Music); Amy Cimini (Music); Ceci Moss (Comparative Literature); Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz (Comparative Literature); Magali Armillas-Tiseyra (Comparative Literature)

“Music, Language, Thought” is an on-going series of interdisciplinary events organized by the departments of Music and Comparative Literature at New York University. This collaboration expands upon and formalizes existing cooperation between our departments, which has flourished over the last several years.

Events take the form of presentations and discussions between scholars in Music and Literature. They aim to explore the zones of convergence between our departments’ respective areas of inquiry, largely in relation to questions of critical aesthetic theory: the relation between affect and politics, the sensible and reason, each considered across different forms of media and materiality.

Speakers: Eugene Thacker (New School), Frances Dyson (UC Davis), Thomas Y. Levin (Princeton University), Martin Harries (New York University), Tamara Levitz (UCLA), Ana María Ochoa (Columbia University), Gary Tomlinson (University of Pennsylvania), Myles Jackson (NYU), Fred Moten (Duke University), Maureen McLane (New York University), David Samuels (New York University), Carolyn Abbate (University of Pennsylvania), Brian Kane (Yale University), Bonnie Gordon (University of Virginia), David Copenhafer, John Hamilton (New York University), Mary Ann Smart (UC Berkeley), Jacques Lezra (New York University), Branden Joseph (Columbia University)