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CV at a glance

Degrees

PhD, English and Cultural, Social, and Political Thought (CSPT), via the Department of English. University of Victoria, British Columbia, defending in June 2024 (in progress)

DISSERTATION: Hormone Protocol: Directed Life and the Biopolitics of Chemical Messages

  • Supervisor: Dr. Jentery Sayers, Department of English

  • Committee Members: Dr. Nicole Shukin, Department of English and Dr. Thea Cacchioni, Department of Gender Studies

MA, Experimental Digital Media (XDM), Department of English Language and Literature. University of Waterloo, Ontario, 2018. Grade Average Award (top of class)

MASTER’S RESEARCH PAPER: Sleep Mode and Material Melancholies: Speaking Roland Barthes, Love, Longing, and Loss in Smartphone Discourse

  • Supervisor: Dr. Marcel O’Gorman, Department of English Language and Literature
    Second Reader: Dr. Daniel Vogel, Department of Computer Science

Hons. BA, English Literature and Rhetoric Co-op, Digital Media Specialization; Sociology minor. University of Waterloo, Ontario. 2016. Academic Achievement Award (top of class)

SelecT hoNours And Awards

2023-24 Dean’s Dissertation Year Scholarship in the Humanities,
University of Victoria, British Columbia

2020-23 SSHRC J. Armand Bombardier Canada GraduateScholarship – Doctoral (CGS-D),
University of Victoria, British Columbia

2017  SSHRC J. Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral (CGS-D),
University of Waterloo, Ontario. Declined due to delayed doctoral scholarship.

2017 Masters Grade Average Award,
Department of English, University of Waterloo, Ontario

2016-17 SSHRC J. Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship – Masters (CGS-M),
University of Waterloo, Ontario

2016-17 President’s Graduate Scholarship,
University of Waterloo, Ontario

Select Research Creation

2021 N(o)vum Organum, a biometric interactive nonfiction

2017 Sleep Mode,
XDM Student Exhibition, University of Waterloo, Ontario

2017 Greyfield/Brightfield,
XDM Student Exhibition, University of Waterloo, Ontario

2016 Pace-Taker: Getting to the Heart of Our Digital Anxieties,
XDM Student Exhibition, University of Waterloo, Ontario

2016 Around the Clock: Temporality and Robot Labour,
EUREKA Gala presented by Year of Code Waterloo Region, Kitchener, Ontario

2015 Organic (De)Construction,
Feedback, Fedback, Feedforward. Gallery publication by the University of Waterloo, curated by Matthew Schwager. University of Waterloo, Ontario

TEACHING

2022 “GNDR 219: Bodies and Critical Media Practices,”
University of Victoria, British Columbia

2022 “GNDR 329: Theorizing Hormones,”
University of Victoria, British Columbia

2021 “ENGL 146: Contemporary Literature,”
University of Victoria, British Columbia

Publications

2023 Julie M. Funk, “She Ripples Happily: Coding Hormone Care in Porpentine Charity Heartscape’s With Those We Love Alive,” Amodern 12, https://amodern.net/article/she-ripples-happily.

2023 Julie M. Funk and Jentery Sayers, “Autoethnographies of Mediation,” The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities, edited by James O’Sullivan, London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN: 9781350232112.

2021 Julie M. Funk, Matthew Lakier, Marcel O’Gorman, and Daniel Vogel, “Exploring Smartphone Relationships through Roland Barthes using an Instrumented Pillow Technology Probe,” Annual SIGCHI  Conference: Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2021, Yokohama, Japan. DOI: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445548.

Conference Presentations

2023 “Hormone Control in the Technological Era,” Canadian Communications Association, Congress 2023, York University, Toronto, Ontario.

2022 “Xenohormones Reimagined in the Deep: Drexciya’s Speculative Endocrinology,” York University English Graduate Student Association, EGSA 2022, York University, Toronto, Ontario (online)

2021 “She Ripples Happily: Coding Hormones and Slimy Narratives in With  Those We Love Alive,” Society for Literature, Science & the Arts,  SLSA 2021, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (online) 

2021 “Endocode: Boundary Collapse in the Endocrine System,” Gender/Diversity in Informatics Systems Research Group (GeDIS), New Materialist Informatics 2021, Universität Kassel, Hessen, Germany (online)

2019 “Mira: Epistemologies and Politics of Gendered Reproductive ‘Biohacking,’” Society for Literature, Science & the Arts, SLSA 2019, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California

2018 “The Anorexic Cyborg: Complicated Figurations of the Posthuman Body,” Society for Literature, Science & the Arts, SLSA 2018, The Hilton Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

2018 “Material Melancholies: Smartphone Anxieties and A Lover’s Discourse,” Rutgers-Camden Archive of Digital Ephemera, R-CADE Symposium 2018, Rutgers University – Camden, Camden, New Jersey 

2017 “Yondr, A (Non) Use Case: Affective Rhetorical Agency in a Non-Use Tool,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, SLSA 2017, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

2017  “Pace-Taker: Getting to the Heart of Our Digital Anxieties,” Canadian Communications Association, Congress 2017, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario 

Guest Talks

2023 “Time TravellerTM: Interaction, Agency, and Indigenous Futures,” ENSH 310: Speculative Fiction, taught by Dr. Nicole Shukin, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia.

2021 “Coded Bodies: Player-Narrative Intertextuality in With Those We Love Alive” Player Stories presented by the Praxis Studio at UVic, University of Victoria, British Columbia

2021 “Introduction to Cyborg Theory.” ENGL 207: “Introduction to Cultural  Studies,” taught by Dr. Nicole Shukin, University of Victoria, British Columbia

2021 “What is Literary Machine Listening?” SpokenWeb virtually hosted,  Concordia University, Montreal, Québec 

2020 “What is Literary Machine Listening?” ENGL 506: “Readers are  Listening,” taught by Dr. Jentery Sayers, University of Victoria,  British Columbia

2020 “Digital Ethics: AI, Algorithms, and Surveillance,” roundtable with Suzanne Kite and Tracey El Hajj, presented by the Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA), Digital Shift 2020, (online)

2018 “What is Critical Making?”
ENGL 108D: “Digital Lives,” taught by Dr. Phil Miletic, University of Waterloo, Ontario