About

I am a grad student in Comparative Literature at UCLA, where I’m finishing up my dissertation entitled Narrative Networks: Mapping Literature at the Turn of the 21st Century under the advisement of N. Katherine Hayles and Todd Presner.

I’m also programmer/analyst at the UC Humanities Research Institute, have worked extensively as a developer on Hypercities and the Danish Folklore Mapping Project, and am currently a fellow of the NEH Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship.

Background

After getting my BA in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley in 1996, I worked as a computer programmer in the San Francisco bay area for over six years, where I specialized in database-driven web applications development.

The Litmap Project: Mapping Literature Digitally

In conjunction with my dissertation, I’ve been working on developing Litmap, a browser-based app for digitally mapping literature. The goal has been to create a tool to be used alongside traditional methods of close reading in order to critically examine narratives in terms of their geospatiality. The “results” of this new reading methodology make up an integral part of my dissertation. Read more about the project here and here.