Victoria Szabo joined Duke University in August 2006 as Program Director for Information Science + Information Studies. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of English, and a member of the Duke Visual Studies Initiative Steering and Executive Committees, where she is helping to develop the new Visual Studies Initiative interdisciplinary space in the Smith Warehouse. Her special areas of interest include: media fluency as theory-into-practice, pervasive computing and virtual world technologies, non-linear narrative and mapping, new media art, "old" new media, and intellectual property in the digital age.

Recently she has served on the juries and on-site committees as a technical director for the annual SIGGRAPH conference Art Galleries "Global Eyes" in 2007, and "Slow Art" in 2008. She is currently developing a new curated and juried gallery on "Information Aesthetics" to be shown at the SIGGRAPH 2009 conference in New Orleans.

Before coming to Duke, Victoria worked at Stanford University 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 and the University Libraries. 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:

• "Digital Media Authorship as Academic Writing," New Media Consortium Summer Conference, Princeton, NJ, 2008
• “Texts in Virtual Contexts: Reading Scholarly Work in 3D Environments,” Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL, 2007
• “Media-Enriched Critical Writing as Gray Market Transgression,” Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL, 2007
• 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

Spring 2009 Courses:

• ISIS 100: Perspectives on Information Science + Information Studies
• ISIS 200: Certificate Capstone

Fall 2008 Courses:

• 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)