Department of English Literature & Writing
Director of English Literature & New Media Online
Flavia Hall
503.636.8141, ext. 4056
jstommel@marylhurst.edu

Education

Ph.D. in English, University of Colorado Boulder
MA in English, University of Colorado Boulder
BA in English, University of Colorado Boulder, summa cum laude

Classes Taught

Hypertext & Literature 
Digital Humanities 
American Literature 
Shakespeare 
Film & Literature 
Studies in Film Genre: The Posthuman

About

Jesse Stommel's areas of expertise include film, new media, 19th to 21st century American literature, critical theory, horror, queer theory, postmodernism, popular culture, digital Shakespeare, visual rhetoric, composition and digital pedagogy. He is co-editor of Hybrid Pedagogy: A Digital Journal of Teaching and Technology. Follow him on Twitter @Jessifer or check out Jesse's website.

Selected Awards

Media Literacy Award, National Council of Teachers in English (NCTE). Spearheaded application for this award won by the Writing and Communication Program at Georgia Tech (2011)

Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology (2010 - 2011)

Faculty Leadership Award: Faculty of the Year, Colorado Community Colleges Online (2010)

Service Learning Course Development Grant, University of Colorado Boulder (2010)

Marinus Smith Teaching Award, Parents Association, University of Colorado Boulder (2009)

Powers of Wonder Colloquium Fellowship, Center for Humanities and the Arts, University of Colorado Boulder (2005 - 2006)

Provost's Fellowship for Digital Media Teaching Project, University of Colorado Boulder (2005)

Graduate Teaching Excellence Award, University of Colorado Boulder (2004)

Selected Publications

Toward a Zombie Pedagogy: Embodied Teaching and the Student 2.0. Zombies in the Academy: Living Death in Higher Education. Eds. Andrew Whelan, Chris Moore and Ruth Walker. Intellect Press (forthcoming in 2012)

Gothic Realness: a Review of L. Andrew Cooper's Gothic Realities: the Impact of Horror Fiction on Modern Culture. TECHStyle (February 2011)

Something that Festers: The Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and the Visual Pleasures of Horror. Bright Lights Film Journal Vol. 71 (February 2011)

I'm Not a Dead Body; I Just Play One on TV: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Performativity of the Corpse. Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association Vol. 8.1 (Spring 2010)

The Dead Things We Already Are: Pod People, Body Snatching, and the Horrors of Business as Usual. Bright Lights Film Journal Vol. 66 (November 2009)

Pity Poor Flesh: Terrible Bodies in the Films of Carpenter, Cronenberg, and Romero. Bright Lights Film Journal Vol. 56 (May 2007)

Selected Films

Producer, editor: Zombie Proof (2012)
Director, producer, editor: Georgia Tech It Gets Better (2011)
Producer, editor: Defending Neverland. Midheaven Productions (2009)
Editor: Uncommon Hope. MCC (2008)
Editor: We Who are One Body. MCC (2007)

Selected Presentations

Monsters that Matter: The Monstrous Birth and Other Things that Rise in Contemporary Zombie Media. Invasion Montreal: First International Conference on Zombies, Montreal, QC, Canada (2012)

Dust and Guts: Matter and Affect in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves. Science Fiction Literature Division, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida (2012)

The Traumas of the Interactive Text. Game Studies, Culture, Play and Practice Division, Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, San Antonio, Texas (2011)

The Rotting Dead and Other Literary Matter that Teems. Horror Literature Division, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida (2011)

On Decay and Disc Rot: Digital Texts and the (De)Evolution of Media. Rendering the Visible Conference, Georgia State University (2011)

Feed: Texting, Twitter and the Student 2.0. Writing and Communication Program Fall Colloquium, Georgia Institute of Technology (2010)

Can Dead Flesh Be Good Flesh: Film, Digital Media and the Tactile. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico (2010)

The Ecstatic Corpse: the Buffyverse and What Becomes of Bodies Once They're Dead. SC4: the Slayage Conference on the Whedonverse, St. Augustine, Florida (2010)

Toward a Zombie Pedagogy: Embodied Teaching and the Student 2.0. Panel Organizer: Web 2.0, Lit. 2.0, Students 2.0. AAUP Conference on the State of Higher Ed, Washington, DC (2010)

What Do Dead Things Eat?: Monstrous Machines, Automata and the Zombie Horde. 19th Annual Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado (2009)

Infection in the Sentence Breeds: Grammar and the Student 2.0. Panel Organizer: Web 2.0, Literature 2.0, Students 2.0. 19th Annual Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado (2009)

Pity Poor Flesh: The Dead and the Walking Dead in Contemporary Literature and Film. Center for Humanities and the Arts Works-in-Progress Series, University of Colorado Boulder (2008)

Students 2.0. 12th Annual Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology Conference, Boulder, Colorado (2008)

Pity Poor Flesh: Terrible Bodies in the Films of John Carpenter, David Cronenberg and George Romero. 5th Annual International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii (2007)

Camera Mortua: Reflections on Photography, the Other and Zombification. Center for Humanities and the Arts Powers of Wonder Colloquium, University of Colorado Boulder (2006)

Virtual Shakespeare: Shakespeare in the Electronic Classroom. Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology Conference, Boulder, Colorado (2002 and 2005)