Contact Information

Citizenship: United States of America and Republic of Lithuania (European Union)

Education

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

Appointments

• Research Data Librarian, Research Data Services, Columbia University Libraries, Columbia University, New York, NY 2018–present
• Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, New York University, New York, NY 2015–2018
• Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Communication, Faculty of Creative Industries, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania 2014–2015

Publications

• “Mixed Methodological Digital Humanities.” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, ed. Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

As reviewer:

• “Repeating the Past. Carl Abbott. Imagining Urban Futures: Cities in Science-Fiction and What We Might Learn from Them. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2016. 276 pp. $27.95 hc.” Science Fiction Studies 46, no. 2 (2019): 392–394. doi: 10.5621/sciefictstud.46.2.0392.
• “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):

• “We Like to Party.” We Made Uranium! And Other True Stories from the University of Chicago’s Extraordinary Scavenger Hunt, ed Leila Sales. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 171–175.
• “The Whale.” Popula. October 23, 2018.
• “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.

Honors & Grants

• New York University, New York, New York
  • Department of English Committee on Events and Public Programming grant for “Mapping the Text 2018” ($3000) 2018
  • Center for the Humanities Grants-in-Aid grant for “Mapping the Text 2018” ($2000) 2018
• 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

Collaborations & Selected Projects

• Torn Apart / Separados.
  • Rapid application building and data infrastructure; coordinated a team of six scholars, 2018.
• Mapping the Text, New York University
  • Founder and Organizer of inaugural international conference. April 2017.
• xpMethod: Group for Experimental Methods in Humanistic Research, Columbia University
  • Contributor. Led pedagogy for “#PRMapathon” and designed Torn Apart / Separados. January 2016–present.
• NewYorkScapes, New York University
  • Researcher. Architecture tester for Inquisite data platform, October 2015–present.
• Mapping Expatriate Paris: The Shakespeare and Company Lending Library Project, Princeton University, Joshua Kotin, PI.
  • DH Advisor. Work with scholars to prototype geospatial visualizations. September 2016–present
• NYWalker.
  • Author. Build an API server and front-end for letting researchers manually enter geospatial data from textual sources. Public beta, 2016.
• “Mapping Mughal India, 1500–1600 CE,” Columbia University, Manan Ahmed, PI.
  • Lead Programmer. Designing data architecture for geospatial visualizations of 16th century texts. March 2017–present.
• NYCDH
  • JavaScript mapping workshop instructor at NYCDH Week, February 2017–present
• The JavaScripting English Major.
  • Author. Designing and implementing 15-session course that teaches humanities undergraduates JavaScript. 2017.