Victoria Szabo joined Duke University in August 2006 as Program Director for Information Science + Information Studies. She was named as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Duke in August 2007. Her special areas of interest include: media fluency as theory-into-practice, pervasive computing and 3d computing technologies like SecondLife and Croquet, new media art, and intellectual property in the digital age. A Victorianist by training, she remains compelled by the history of "new" media as a recurring mass cultural phenomenon. A member of the Duke Visual Studies Initiative Steering and Executive Committees, she looks forward to helping develop collaborative, practice-based visual studies courses and projects with humanists, scientists, social scientists, and technologists across the university and beyond.

In 2007 she served on the SIGGRAPH 2007 "Global Eyes" Art Gallery Jury, and served as the Computer Technology Chair for the exhibit. She is also working on the 2008 show, "Slow Art." She is also involved in Educause and has completed the Educause Instructional Technology and Information Technology Leadership Institutes.

Before coming to Duke, Victoria worked at Stanford University (1999-2006) as the Academic Technology Manager for the Office of the Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education and Academic Technology Specialist for the Introduction to the Humanities Program. She has also worked at Grinnell College as an Instructional Multimedia Specialist. She holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in English, from the University of Rochester, as well as a Graduate Certificate from the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She also holds an M.A. in English from Indiana University, Bloomington and a B.A. in English from Williams College.

Recent and Upcoming Presentations:

• “Texts in Virtual Contexts: Reading Scholarly Work in 3D Environments,” Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL, 2007 (upcoming)
• “Media-Enriched Critical Writing as Gray Market Transgression,” Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL, 2007 (upcoming)
• Designing and Implementing Podcasting, Academic Impressions Webcast, October 31, 2007
• "Podcasting and Videocasting in Education," Invited Keynote, E-Sanitas Symposium on Mobile Learning, Bogotá, Columbia, 2007
• "Digital Media and the Hybrid University," Podcast Academy V, 2007
• "Institutional Podcasting and Media Sharing," Educause Seminars on Academic Computing Leadership Seminar, 2006
• "The Mobile User," Ready2Net, 2006
• "Course Management Tools for the Humanities, "Sakai Developers Conference, 2006
• "Can New Media Impact Student Success and Will It?" Alt-i-Lab, 2006
• "Academic Technology and the Millennial Student," Stanford Development Office Parent's Advisory Board Meeting, 2006
• "Persuasive Pervasive: Real Learning or Hype?," Educause Learning Initiative, 2005

Fall 2008 Courses:

• ISIS 100: Perspectives on Information Science + Information Studies
• ISIS 145: Gender and Digital Culture

Spring 2008 Courses:

• ISIS 200: Certificate Capstone
• ISIS 240S/ARTHIST 240S: Technology and New Media in the University

Fall 2007 Courses:

• ISIS 120S.02 / ARTHIST 177FS.03 / ENGLISH 179ES.02 / WOMENST 150S.02: Gender and Digital Culture
  
• Focus Cluster, Virtual Realities: Interdisiplinary Discussion Group

Previous Courses:

• ISIS 200 Capstone
  
• ISIS 240: Technology and New Media in the University
  
• Human and the Machine (team-taught, Stanford University)
  
• Sex: Its Pleasures and Cultures (team-taught, Stanford University)
  
• Bodies in Place: Investigating Selfhood and Location (team-taught, Stanford University)
  
• Visual Anthropology (team-taught, SF State)
  
• Multimedia and Art (team-taught, Grinnell College)
• Various composition and humanities survey courses (University of Rochester and Eastman School of Music)