Office: Art Museum 104, Duke University, Durham, NC
27709-0670
Telephone: (919) 684-4127; Fax: (919) 684-3598
E-Mail: tlove@acpub.duke.edu
Home Page: http://www.duke.edu/~tlove
The Graduate Program in Literature at Duke was founded by Fredric Jameson in 1985 with the goal of expanding the scope of literary studies to engage broader questions of culture and society. Committed to an interdisciplinary approach, its faculty and students study the social effects of cultural representations through a combination of methodologies, including media criticism, historical research, and sociological analysis.Dissertation: "Electric Dreams: Computer Culture and the Utopian Sphere."
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
B.A. magna cum laude with distinction in American Studies, 1991.
A close analysis of the computer game Civilization, contrasting the utopian promise of new interactive technologies with the limiting assumptions found in contemporary software."From Heroic Objectivity to the News Stream: The Newseum's Strategies for Relegitimizing Journalism in the Information Age." Critical Studies in Mass Communication 15.3 (September 1998): 325-335.
An essay on the global future of broadcast news based on a critical analysis of the Newseum, an interactive museum of news in Arlington, Virginia."Making Sense of Software: Computer Games and Interactive Textuality." CyberSociety: Computer-Mediated Communication and Community. Ed. Steven G. Jones.Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995. 73-89.
A discussion of the new forms of spectatorship made possible by interactive computer programs that challenge traditional distinctions between "audience" and "text.""The World of The World of Coca-Cola." Communication Research 19.5 (October 1992): 642-662.
A critical essay on the World of Coca-Cola, a corporate museum and tourist attraction built by the Coca-Cola Corporation in Atlanta, Georgia.Senior Contributor to alt.culture,eds. Stephen Daly and Nathaniel Wice (Harper Collins, 1996).
Wrote 60 entries for a reference guide to contemporary culture, including definitions of "Cultural Studies," "Queer Theory," and "Afrocentrism."Freelance media critic, 1990-.
"Does Information 'Want' to Be Free?" submitted for presentation at the International Communication Association convention, Acapulco, Mexico, June 2000.
Invited Speaker, “Computer Games Come of Age,” a national conference sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Interactive Digital Software Association, Cambridge, MA, Feburary 2000.
"Beyond Hypertext," presented at the "Multimedia Literature" panel at the Modern Language Association convention, Toronto, Canada, December 1997.
"Making Cyberspace a Household Word," presented at the American Studies Association convention, Washington, D.C., October 1997.
"Apple’s 1984: The Introduction of the Macintosh in the Cultural History of Personal Computers," presented at the Society for the History of Technology convention, Pasadena, California, October 1997.
"Learning to Love Hootie and the Blowfish," presented at Assault: Radicalism in Aesthetics and Politics, Duke University, November 1996.
"Fandom as a Materialist Aesthetic," presented at Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture, Duke University, April 1995.
"Navigating SimCity: Computer Gaming as Cognitive Mapping," presented at New Metropolitan Forms, Duke University, April 1994.
Moderator and Panelist:
Moderator, "Cyborg Subjectivity: Gender in the Posthuman World," Discipline and Deviance: Genders, Technologies, Machines, Duke University, October 1998.Moderator, "Rock Mediations," Representing Rock, Duke University, April 1997.
Panelist, "Roundtable: Radicalism in Academia," Assault: Radicalism in Aesthetics and Politics, Duke University, November 1996.
Norman Holmes Pearson Prize for American Studies Thesis, "The World of The World of Coca-Cola," Yale University, 1991.
J. Edward Meeker Prize for Composition, "The War of the Tale of the War: Helen and Menelaos's Competing Claims in The Odyssey," Yale University, 1988.
Teaching Interests
New Media Technologies
Possible courses include, but are not limited to: Introduction to New
Media Technologies; Multimedia in Theory and Practice; Web Design; The
Politics of Cyberspace; Copyright in a Digital Culture; The Internet and
the Future of Journalism.
Media Studies
Possible courses include, but are not limited to: Introduction to Media
Studies; Understanding Television; Media and Global Culture; Race and American
Popular Culture; Queer Media Studies; The American Sitcom; Subcultures
and the Politics of Style; Theories of Ideology.
Teaching Experience
Instructor, Duke University
Satire in American Culture, Literature 20, Spring 1997.
Designed seminar on the politics of humor in American life.Imagining the Future: the Politics and Possibilities of Emerging Information Technologies, Literature 20, Spring 1996.
Designed seminar on cyberculture.Autobiography and Identity, University Writing Program 5, Fall 1994.
Taught freshman composition course.
Teaching Assistant, Duke University
Introduction to Film, with Professor Jane Gaines, Literature 110/English 101A/Drama 173/Film and Video 130, Fall 1997.
Media Skills
Multimedia/Web
HTML, Microsoft FrontPage, Netscape Composer, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe
Pagemaker, Macromedia Director.
Video
Analog and digital videography, linear video editing decks, Avid Media
Composer, Medio 100, Adobe Premiere.
Audio
SoundEdit 16, Sonic Foundry Acid, CuBase, ReCycle, radio production.
Service
Reviewer, Critical Studies in Mass Communication.
Liaison to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Program in Cultural Studies, 1997-.
Appointed upon the inception of UNC's interdisciplinary program to facilitate communication and collaboration among cultural studies scholars at Duke and UNC.Coordinator, Duke Literature Program Dissertation Colloquium, 1997-99.
Organized series of talks where graduate students present and discuss their dissertation research.Advisor, Duke Pre-Major Advising Center, 1998-99.
Advised freshmen and sophomores on course schedules, academic issues, and choice of major.Member, Working Group on Ethics and Genetics, Kenan Ethics Program, Duke University, 1998.
Served on committee designed to foster dialogue among the humanities, the sciences, and private industry.
Other Experience
Web manager, Duke University Literature Program, 1996-99.
Developed and maintained department’s web site and e-mail discussion list.Associate Editor, Prodigy online service, 1991-92.
Developed documentation and moderated online discussions for Baseball Manager, Prodigy’s "fantasy baseball" game.Music Director and Disk Jockey, WYBC, New Haven, CT, 1989-91.
Directed programming and hosted weekly show for New Rock format of Yale University’s commercial radio station.Editor in Chief, Nadine magazine, New Haven, CT, 1989-91.
Edited campus music and pop culture magazine.
References
Professor Janice Radway, Literature Program, Duke University.
Professor Fredric Jameson, Chair, Literature Program, Duke University.
Professor Lawrence Grossberg, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Professor Jane Gaines, Director, Film and Video Program, Duke University.
Professor Barbara
Herrnstein Smith, Director, Center
for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory, Duke
University.