Theresa M. Senft, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies
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Theresa M. Senft, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies Program • New York University 726 Broadway, Room 615 • New York, NY • 10003 [email protected] • website: http://www.terrisenft.net Education 2004 Ph.D., New York University, Performance Studies. 1997 M.A., New York University, Performance Studies. 1990 B.A. State University of New York at Albany, Political Science. Publications Books: Single Author Camgirls: Celebrity & Community in the Age of Social Networks. Revised dissertation. New York: Peter Lang Publishers: 2008. Books: Co-Written History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843-Present. New York: ABC-Clio Publications. Received American Library Association Award, Research Division. 1999. Edited Collections “Global Selfie Culture.” Special Section (19 articles) for International Journal of Communication, Vol.9. Co-edited with Nancy Baym. Spring 2015. Routledge Handbook of Social Media. Co-edited with Jeremy Hunsinger. New York: Routledge: 2013. “Sexuality and Cyberspace: Performing the Digital Body.” Special Issue of Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. Winter 1996. Book Chapters “The Skin of the Selfie.”Ego Update: The Future of Digital Identity. Alain Bieber, ed. Dusseldorf: NRW Forum Publications 2015. “From Media Abstinence to Media Production: Sexting, Young People and Education.” Coauthor with Kath Albury and Amy Hassinoff. Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education. Palgrave 2016. The Selfie Course: More than a MOOC.” Massive Open Online Courses and Higher Education: Where to Next? Rebecca Bennet and Mike Kemp, eds. Ashgate 2016. Race, YouTube, and Sh*t People Say.” Co-author with Safiya Noble. In Routledge Handbook of Social Media. Routledge 2013. “Microcelebrity and the Branded Self.” In Blackwell Companion to New Media Dynamics. Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns, Eds. Blackwell, 2012. “Sex, spectatorship, and the “Neda” video: a Biopsy.’” In New Visualities, New Technologies: The New Ecstasy of Communication, Hille Koskela and J. Macgregor Wise, Eds. Blackwell, 2012. "Four Rooms." In VOICE: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Art and Media. Norie Neumark and Ross Gisbson, Eds. MIT Press, 2011. "Shockingly Tech-splicit: Orlan and the Politics of Shock in a Digital Age." In Reload: Rethinking Women and Technology. Mary Flannagan, Ed. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. "Baud Girls and Cargo Cults" In World Wide Web and Contemporary Theory. Thomas Swiss and Andrew Herman, Eds. New York: Routledge, 2000. "Spare Parts." In The Ends of Performance. Peggy Phelan and Jill Lane, Eds. New York: New York University Press, 1997. Articles “What Does the Selfie Say? Studying a Global Phenomenon.” With Nancy Baym in International Journal of Communication, Vol. 9., Spring 2015. “Sexuality and Cyberspace: A Ghost Story.” In Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 17, Spring 1997. "Modem Butterfly." With Kaley Davis in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 17, Spring 1997. "Gayatri Spivak and the Dark Continent of French Feminism." In Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 14, Spring 1995. "What's Love Got to Do With It? Reading Linda/Les and Annie Through Lacan." In Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 11, Spring 1993. Commissioned Essays “Hating Habermas: On Exhibitionism, Shame & the Life on the Actually Existing Internet.” Either/And: New Theories of Exhibitionism & Display. British Media Museum. 2014. “From Personal Property to Speaking Citizen: Youth, Microcelebrity, and Credit in an Attention Economy." Berkman Center, Harvard University. Publius Series: Spring 2010. Encyclopedia Entries Encyclopedia of New Media (Steve Jones, ed., New York: Sage, 2003.) Contributed twenty articles to this project, including entries on: • Obscenity • Broadband • Cyborg Manifesto • Gender • Minitel • Cathedral and the Bazaar • Internet relay chat (IRC) • Bulletin board system (BBS) • Donna Haraway • Sherry Turkle Honors and Awards 2016 NYU travel grant for Teaching Global Liberal Studies Conference, NYU London, July (internal award) NYU Liberal Studies Summer Grant Workshop Award (internal award) 2015 NYU President’s Service Award for Advisor Global Media & Creative Production Club (university award) NYU travel grant, Faculty Resource Conference in Athens, Greece, January (university award) 2014 NYU travel grant for Teaching Global Liberal Studies conference, NYU Paris, July (internal award) 2013 NYU Dean’s Global Initiative Grant for travel to Shanghai, Paris & London for the Hey Girl Global Project (internal award) 2010 University of East London “pump priming” award (2,700 BPS~ $4,00 USD) for preparing Economic Research Council grant for Future Sex conference (university award) 2003 Paulette Goddard Fellowship ($4,600 USD) for promising dissertation research (university award) 1999 American Library Association Award, Research Division, for History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843-Present (industry award) 1992 NYU President's Service Award, for outstanding service to New York University as Chief Archivist, Performance Studies (university award) 1991 Merit-Based five-year scholarship and graduate assistantship, New York University. Invited Talks and Conferences 2016 Microsoft Research Social Media Symposium. New York. Invited guest for closed-door research summit limited to fifty participants. January. Keynote Speaker: Jornada Internacional Geminis Journey. Sao Paulo, Brazil. May. Keynote Speaker: Launch of Digital Humanities Platform, University of Pretoria, South Africa. June. 2015 Women in the World Summit, London, England. Tina Brown World Media. Invited panelist, October. Affect Theory Conference. Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Invited Guest Speaker for PhD workshop entitled, “From Clickbait to Triggers: Theorizing the Grab.” October. Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Arizona. Invited speaker for panel devoted to developing a Social Justice Caucus. October. 2014 Digital Labor Conference, New School University, NYC Invited speaker. Talk title: Digital Labor and Sex Work: Let’s Set Some Research Agendas.” Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Daegu, Korea. October 6-10. Organizer of three interlocked panels on “Selfie Culture.” Re-Materializing Feminisms. London, U.K. June 5-8. Institute of Contemporary Art, The Showroom, & Arcadia Missa Gallery. Keynote speaker. Talk title: “Selfie Lucida.” International Communication Association, Seattle, WA. Preconference on GLTB Issues. Talk title: “Epistemology of the Second Selfie.” Rutgers Symposium on Social Media & Psycho-Social Wellbeing.” Rutgers University, New Jersey. Plenary speaker. Talk title, “When I Hear the word ‘Empower,’ I Reach for my Revolver.” 2013 Studying Social Media Activism: Special Workshop. Manchester University, U.K. Keynote speaker. Talk title: “My Belongs to Me? Femen and the Trouble with Socially Mediated Shock Politics.” 2012 Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Salford, UK., October 2012. Plenary Speaker Talk title: “Hating Habermas: On Exhibitionism, Shame & the Life on the Actually Existing Internet.” Digcult 13 Conference, Salford University, UK. June 2012. Keynote speaker. Talk title: “Everything I Know about Internet Research Methods, I Learned from the Camgirls.” Research Digital Media Conference, University of Manchester, UK. April 2012. Keynote speaker. 2011 Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Seattle, WA. October 2011. Affective Labor and Teen Sexual Display on Fubar. Installation organizer: “Internet Kissing Booth.” South by Southwest Interactive Conference, Austin, TX. April 2011. Panel presentation entitled, “F*cking the Old Spice Guy: Race, Gender and Micro-celebrity on Twitter.” Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green Ohio. May 2011. Invited speaker for conference entitled “Race, Labor and Affect on the Internet.” 2010 TED Salon Event. London, U.K. November 2010. Invited speaker. Talk entitled, “Fame to Fifteen: Reframing Celebrity.” Association of Internet Researchers, Sweden. October 2010. Organized panel entitled “Brand Me Online: Sustaining Personal Identity through Strategies of the Corporate.” 2009 Berkman Center, Harvard University Law School. Autumn 2009. Invited speaker for Youth and Media Policy Working Group initiative. Topic: “What can we learn from youth engagement with celebrity?” Oxford Internet Institute. Autumn 2009. Invited speaker for OII Forum on Relationships and the Internet. Subject of talk: “From intimate strangers to strange intimacies: theorizing encounters with the other online.” University of Copenhagen. Autumn 2009. Invited speaker for conference on 'Mediatization of Intimate Experiences.’ Subject of talk: “New Media Romance in the time of Snuff: Thinking through the Media Martyrdom of Neda.” Association of Internet Researchers, Vancouver, CA, Autumn 2009. Roundtable presentation entitled, “Being Difficult? Imagining the Futures of Internet Studies. 2007 Telic Gallery, Los Angeles, Fall 2007. Invited speaker for “Showing,” an exhibition curated by Jordan Crandall. Speech topic: “Tele-ethicality in the age of social networks.” University of Ottawa Law School, Ottawa, CA, Fall 2007. Invited panel speaker. Talk title: “YouTube Booty Dancing: A Meditation.” 2006 Jewish Funders Network. Boulder, Colorado, Spring 2006. Keynote speaker for Annual Conference. Talk title: “Youth, Judaism, and LiveJournal’s ‘WeirdJews’ Conference: an Informal Ethnography.” 2005 SITE Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Fall 2005. Invited speaker in conjunction with digital artist Kiki Soror. Franklin University, Lugano, Switzerland.