"Of robots and rhetoric: Nikola Tesla’s telautomaton and the boundaries of scientific communication (1897–1900)"
2021
Public Understanding of Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625211003714
"Citizen Science and Citizen Energy Communities: A Systematic Review and Potential Alliances for SDGs"
2020
Sustainability 12(23), 10096; https://doi.org/10.3390/su122310096
"Power lines Around Los Angeles: Isolation, Interconnection, Aesthetics"
2020
BOOM California: A Journal of California
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"Power lines are sites of tension. They have simultaneously proliferated electric currents across California and faded in popularity for over a century."
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, as Los Angeles was wired for power and the lights of the American movie industry flickered to life, director D.W. Griffith used telegraph lines—and telegraph cutting—to signal a sudden isolation of protagonists in two of his more famous short films, The Lonedale Operator (1911) and The Girl and Her Trust (1912)
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The sensation of being “cut off” from the beautiful vistas of the 101 and the bustle of Los Angeles can be almost instantly collapsed by a loose cable, especially in this age of dryer winters and warmer winds. Decades of damage has exposed our networks to nature’s wrath.
"Typing Corrections: An Exploration and Performance of Prison (Type)Writing"
Community Literacy Journal 13.2, pp. 5-20
"Reading Between the Power Lines: How a Tesla Street Sign Enhanced the ‘Wireless’ Signals in a Rhetorical Analysis of Electricity and Landscape"
Serendipity in Rhetoric, Writing and Literacy Research, edited by Maureen and Peter Goggin. Utah State University Press, 2018
"From Wire Evil to Power Line Poetics: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Renewable Transmission.”
Energy Research and Social Science 30, 2017, pp. 53-60.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2017.05.040
Getting Likes, Going Viral, and the Intersections Between Popularity Metrics and Digital Composition.”
Computers and Composition 42, 2016, pp. 69-79.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2016.08.004
"Captain Marryat and The Floral Telegraph; or, A Forgotten Coder and His Floral Code."
Victorian Literature and Culture 42.2 pp. 209-233,
DOI: 10.1017/S1060150313000454
Other Online Publications and Digital Works
"The TM 192-Triaxial Electric Field Meter.”
Cultural Anthopology, Special Issue of "Our Lives with Electric Things," 2017
"The Infinite Library of Babel.”
A website that expands from the discrepancies in Jorge Luis Borges' 1941 and 1944 versions of "La Biblioteca de Babel"
"Energy Policy: Will Special Interest Groups Short-Circuit Our Future?”
review of Leah Stokes' Short Circuiting Policy
Los Angeles Review of Books, Special Issue of "Our Lives with Electric Things," 2017
