Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Ph.D., Communication and Rhetoric, 1993 – 1998
- Completed first “born digital” webbed dissertation in the U.S (as cited in Chronicle of Higher Education, 2005), a cyberculture ethnography that can’t be reproduced on paper.
- Interviewed about project in New York Times article on cult TV, 2000.
- Permanent site, www.nutball.com/dissertation, is required in grad seminars both within & outside the U.S.
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
M.F.A., Creative Writing, Poetry, May 1990
















