Contact Information

Fields of Specialization

20th and 21st century American fiction; the novel; human geography and geographic information science; digital humanities.

Academic Appointments

• Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, New York University, New York, NY 2015–present
• Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Communication, Faculty of Creative Industries, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania 2014–2015

Education

• University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Ph.D., English Language and Literature, 2014
    • Dissertation: “The Site of the Novel: Objects in American Realism, 1930–1940”
    • Advisors: Lauren Berlant & Kenneth W. Warren
  • A.M., English Language and Literature, 2005
  • A.B., English Language and Literature, 2004

Programming & Computational Skills

• Languages: Ruby, JavaScript, L^aT_eX, Python, R, and PHP.
• Applications and frameworkds: ArcGIS, Qgis, Carto, GeoDa, Final Cut, Logic, Adobe Creative applications, Rails, Sinatra, D3.js, Leaflet.js, Kartograph, Natural Language Toolkit, Twitter API, and Ember.

Publications

• Peer-reviewed
  • “Moving forward with Mixed Methods.” Under review for Debates in the Digital Humanities 2018, ed. Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
• as reviewer
  • “Toward Spatial Humanities: Historical GIS and Spatial History, by Ian N. Gregory and Alistair Geddes, eds.” The ALH Online Review Series VIII. 2016
• as cartographer
  • “Hyderabad State-Bombay Presidency Frontier Zone c. 1900” in Beverley, Eric Lewis. “Frontier as Resource: Law, Crime, and Sovereignty on the Margins of Empire.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 55, no. 2 (2013): 241–272. doi: 10.1017/S0010417513000029.
  • “Reorganization of Princely Hyderabad” in Datla, Kavita. The Language of Secular Islam: Urdu Nationalism and Colonial India. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013.
  • Multiple maps in Howard, Hugh. Mr. and Mrs. Madison’s War: America’s First Couple and the Second War of Independence. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press, 2012.
  • “Pakistan” in Ahmed, Manan. Where the Wild Frontiers Are: Pakistan and the American Imagination. Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2011.
• in popular/trade press (selection)
  • “Literatūros tyrinėtojas iš JAV: Andriaus Tapino „Vilko valanda“ įkūnija neoliberalų svajones.” 15min.lt. June 12, 2016.
  • “Society and Soccer.” The Classical. March 18, 2014.
  • “Paris Is Earning.” The Classical. January 9, 2012.
  • “#JamesFrancoFacts.” The Chronicle Review. February 27, 2011.

Digital Projects

• The JavaScripting English Major. 2017
• “Fabula and Sjužet in ‘Wandering Rocks.’” Public beta, 2017.
• “Mapping Mughal India, 1500–1600 CE.” Columbia University, Manan Ahmed, PI. Forthcoming.
• Mapping Expatriate Paris: The Shakespeare and Company Lending Library Project. DH Advisor. Princeton University, Joshua Kotin, PI. 2017.
• “text_divider.” 2016.
• “Let the Great World Spin Maps.” Public beta, 2016.
• NYWalker. Public beta, 2016.
• “Mapping Post-war American Poetry.” (with Joshua Kotin). Forthcoming.
• “Observation counter.” Public alpha, 2015.
• “Narrative-distance.” 2015.

Honors & Grants

• Vilnius Gediminas Technical Univeristy, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • European Commission Erasmus+ Staff Teaching Mobility Grant (€989) 2015
  • European Commission Erasmus+ Staff Teaching Mobility Grant (€683) 2014
• Research Council of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • European Union Structural Fund Grant for Short-Term Scholarly Visit (€2,323) 2014
• University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Division of the Humanities Conference Grant ($400) 2014
  • Walter and Carol Blair Dissertation-Year Fellowship ($20,000) 2012–2013.
  • Assistantship in Learning Technologies ($12,500 + €8,300 housing) 2011–2012
  • Assistantship in Learning Technologies ($10,000 + €8,300 housing) 2010–2011
  • Assistantship in Learning Technologies ($10,000 + €8,300 housing) 2009–2011
  • General Honors, Honors in English Language and Literature 2004

Selected Teaching

• New York University, New York, New York, USA
  • Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow
    • “Digital Literary Studies: Novel Maps of NYC” Autumn 2017
    • “Introduction to the Study of Literature (English 101).” Spring 2017
    • “Digital Literary Studies: Does It Work?” Autumn 2016
    • “Digital Literary Studies: The Map of the City that Is this Novel.” Spring 2016
    • “Writing New York” (co-taught with Prof. Thomas Augst). Spring 2016
• Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • Lecturer
    • “Cultural Narratives” (“Kultūros naratyvai”). Autumn 2014
    • “Lithuanian to Foreign Students.” Spring 2014–Spring 2015
• University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Instructor
    • “Male Fantasy Sports.” Winter 2008
  • Course Assistant
    • “Latina/o Intellectual Thought” (Prof.: Raúl Coronado, Jr.). Spring 2008
    • “Shakespeare I: Histories and Comedies” (Prof.: David Bevington). Winter 2006

Invited Lectures

• “Romanų kartografija: kiekybinių ir kokybinių tyrimų mišinys.”
  • Lietuvių katalikų mokslo akademija, Putnam, Connecticut, USA. September 2017
• “What’s so Punk about Steampunk? European Nation-States, City-States, and Withered States.”
  • Sla307, New York, New York, USA. June 2016
• “Everyday Criticism; or, The View from the Ground Floor of the World Trade Center.”
  • English Department, New York University, New York, New York, USA. October 2015

Selected Workshops & Presentations

• “Fabula and Sjužet in ‘Wandering Rocks.’”
  • Joyce in the Digital Age, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA. October 2017
• “Culture Mapping in the Classroom: Research-led Teaching and Geospatial Data.” Panelist.
  • Culture Mapping @ NYU, New York University, New York, New York, USA. April 2017
• “Data, Data Visualization, and Literary Analysis: From NYWalker to the Essay.”
  • Bobst unCOMMON Salon, New York University, New York, New York, USA. April 2017
• “Mapping the Literature of New York City.”
  • Center for the Humanities, New York University, New York, New York, USA. April 2016
• “Geocritical Explorations inside the Text.”
  • Presider and convener of a Special session at the 130th Annual Convention, Modern Language Association, Vancouver, Canada. January 2015
• “Robert Jordan’s Nearest Neighbor: A For Whom the Bell Tolls GIS.”
  • “Telling stories with maps: the geoweb, qualitative GIS and narrative mapping,” at the Digital Humanities Lab, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. April 2014
• “Where U.S.A. Characters Find Themselves in the USA.”
  • NEH Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship, Scholar’s Lab, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. May 2010
• “Beyond ‘Flat Maps’: GIS in the Humanities.”
  • Humanities Computing TechTalk, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. June 2009

IT Experience

• Humanities Computing, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Web/Application Development Assistant. June 2013–September 2014
• Social Sciences Computing Services, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Computer Support Technician. July 2003–June 2009

Collaborative Affiliations

• xpMethod: Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities, Columbia University
  • Contributor. January 2016–present
• NewYorkScapes, New York University
  • Researcher. October 2015–present
• Digital Experiments Working Group, New York University
  • Faculty Advisor. September 2016–present
• Digital Research Tools Directory
  • GeoHumanities Editor. August 2014–present

Professional Affiliations

• Modern Language Association (USA)
• The Association for Computers and the Humanities (USA)

Language Skills

(Self-assessed, using US Dept. of State Language Proficiency Definitions)

• English: 5 speaking, 5 reading
• Lithuanian: 4 speaking, 4 reading
• French: 3 speaking, 3 reading
• Portuguese: 2 speaking, 3 reading
• Spanish: 2 speaking, 3 reading
• Russian: 2 speaking, 2 reading
• German: 1 speaking, 2 reading
• Mandarin: 1 speaking, 1 reading