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EDUCATION
Bowling Green State University
Ph.D., May 2004
Major: American Culture Studies, with an emphasis in Popular Culture and Literature
Dissertation: “‘It’s a Small World After All’: Smart Homes, Narrative, and the Technology of the Perfect Day.”
University of Minnesota Duluth
Master of Arts, May 2000
Major: English Literature
Related Field: Art History
Master’s Projects: “Conrad’s Time Machine: The Secret Agent and the Scientific Society,” supervising professor, Martin Bock. “‘Gay Incendiaries’: Punk and the Early 20th Century Avant-Garde,” Supervising professor, Robyn Roslak.
University of San Diego
Bachelor of Arts, May 1997, Magna Cum Laude
Major: English
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, English/Communications, Siena Heights University
(Fall 2004-Present)
Teach Courses in Mass Media, Literature, Digital Media, Rhetoric, and Writing.
Restructure degree program and curriculum for English: Communications major.
Advise students in major.
Serve on faculty committees.
Adjunct Professor, American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University
(Spring 2008-Present)
Serve on dissertation committee for William Emerson’s “RPM: Technology, Revolution, and the New Utopia.”
Instructor, American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University
(Fall 2003-Spring 2004)
Taught an American Culture Studies survey course entitled, “Introduction to Cultural Pluralism.”
Designed and taught an upper-division American Culture Studies Seminar entitled, “Robots: Mechanical Subjects/Everyday Selves.”
Editor, Reconstruction <reconstruction.eserver.org> (Fall 2001-Fall 2005)
Editor and co-founder of quarterly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research.
Technical Editor, Rhizomes <www.rhizomes.net> (Fall 2000-Summer 2003)
Act as member of the journal’s editorial advisory board.
Provide technical support for the editorial staff.
Design interfaces and graphical support for contributors.
Instructor, Composition, University of Minnesota Duluth Fall (1998-Spring 2000)
Taught multiple sections of Freshman Composition.
AWARDS
Sr. Eileen K Rice Award for Excellence in Teaching (2008) Awarded by Siena Heights University for outstanding teaching.
Distinguished Dissertation Award (2004) Awarded by the BGSU Graduate College for the best dissertation of 2004.
Miguel Ornelas Award (2002-2003) Awarded by the BGSU Human Relations Commission for “Enhancing Positive Human Relations at Bowling Green State University.”
Charles E. Shanklin Award (2002) Awarded by the BGSU Graduate College for “‘The Opposite of All Earthly Things’: Bizarro, Tradition, and the Aesthetics of Inversion,” which was selected as the best graduate student paper from the School of Arts and Humanities.
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Heckman, Davin (forthcoming), “‘The Opposite of All Earthly Things’: Bizarro, Tradition, and the Aesthetics of Inversion.” ImageTexT (www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext).
Heckman, Davin, and Arthur Zook (forthcoming), “‘But the Honey Glazed Chicken is to Die for!’: Dining as Dignity in Consumer Culture.” Fractured Dialogues: The Crisis of Human Rights, Helen Delfeld and V.G. Julie Rajan, eds.
Heckman, Davin (2008), A Small World: Smart Houses and the Dream of the Perfect Day. Duke University Press.
Heckman, Davin (2008), “Unraveling Identity: Watching the Posthuman Bildungsroman.” CTheory (www.ctheory.net).
Wolf-Meyer, Matthew, and Davin Heckman. (Winter 2006), “Allegorical Reductions and Social Reconstructions”
Reconstruction (reconstruction.eserver.org),
6.1.
Heckman, Davin (2006), “‘Do You Know the Importance of a Sky Pager?’: Telecommunications, African-Americans, and Popular Culture.” Cultural Dialectics and the Cell Phone. Andy Kavoori and Noah Arceneaux, eds. Peter Lang Publishers.
Nelson, Jason, and Davin Heckman. (June 2005), 24 interfaces for 24 artists, #20, Netbehavior Online Residency 3 (http://www.netbehaviour.org).
Heckman, Davin (Fall 2004), “Being in the Shadow of Hollywood: Celebrity, Banality, and the Infamous Chaka.” M/C (www.media-culture.org.au), 7.5.
Heckman, Davin (Spring 2004), “Utopian Accidents: An Introduction to Retro-Futures.” Rhizomes (www.rhizomes.net), 1.8.
Heckman, Davin, Sarah Hildebrandt, Matthew Wolf-Meyer, and R. Stewart Varner (2002), “Burn This Journal!: Reconstruction, the Value of Information, and the Future of the Journal.” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 1.
Blair, Kristine, Angela Haas and Davin Heckman (2002), “Cyborgian Voices: Vignettes of Virtual Identity.” Rhizomes (www.rhizomes.net), 1.4.
Heckman, Davin (2002), “‘Gotta Catch ‘Em All’: The War Machine, Capitalism, and the Pokemon Trainer.” Rhizomes (www.rhizomes.net) 1.5.
Heckman, Davin (2002), “Inside/Outside Collage.” Ctheory Multimedia (http://ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu), 1.3.
Heckman, Davin (2002), “Potty Talk: Marcel Duchamp, Kenneth Burke, and Pure Persuasion.” Tout-Fait (www.toutfait.com) 2.4.
GUEST-EDITED JOURNAL ISSUES
Heckman, Davin, editor (Spring 2008), The Cartoon Issue. Reconstruction (reconstruction.eserver.org), 8.2.
Wolf-Meyer, Matthew, and Davin Heckman, editors (Winter 2006), The Play’s the Thing: Games, Gamers and Gaming Cultures. Reconstruction (reconstruction.eserver.org), 6.1.
Heckman, Davin, guest editor (Spring 2004), Retro-Futures, Rhizomes (www.rhizomes.net), 1.8.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION AND LECTURES
“Reading Unwritten Poems: Developing Critical Tools for Electronic Literature.” Chicago, Illinois, December 27-30, 2007, Modern Language Association Conference.
“Gothic Dystopianism and the Posthuman Bildungsroman: Neoliberalism, Prosopoetic Subjects, and the Paranoid Society.” Toronto, Canada, October 4-7, 2007, The Society for Utopian Studies Conference.
Conference Planning Committee. Bowling Green, Ohio, March 2004, Cultures of Technology Virtual Conference.
Wearing Your Politics on Your Sleeve: Fashion and Identity in Consumer Culture. (Invited) Bowling Green, Ohio, December 3, 2003, Fall Lecture Series, Chapman Learning Community.
Technology and Science Area Chair. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 16-19, 2003, Popular Culture Association Conference.
“The Smart Home and the Reorganization of Living Space.” New Orleans, Louisiana, April 16-19, 2003, Popular Culture Association Conference.
“Smart Homes, Futurism, and the Perfect Day,” Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 4-6, 2002. Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference.
“‘The Opposite of All Earthly Things’: Bizarro, Tradition, and the Aesthetics of Inversion,” San Diego, California, August 1-4, 2002. Comic Arts Conference, San Diego Comic Con International.
“Culture Studies, Reconstruction, and the Future of Information,” (Invited) Iowa City, Iowa, April 11-14, 2002. Craft, Critique, Culture, University of Iowa.
“‘Gotta Catch ‘em All’: The War Machine, The State, and Pokemon Trainers,” Bowling Green, Ohio, February 8-10, 2002. Youth, Popular Culture, and Everyday Life, Bowling Green State University.
“Pi, Chaos, and the Mathematical Gothic,” Vancouver, British Columbia, June 14-17, 2001. Fifth Biannual Conference of the International Gothic Association, Simon Fraser University.
“Collecting and McCloud’s ‘Frictionless Economy,’” San Diego, California, July 19-22, 2001. Comic Arts Conference, San Diego Comic Con International.
“Conrad’s Time Machine: The Secret Agent and the Scientific Society,” Atlanta, Georgia, November 5-7, 1999. International Conference on Utopia and Dystopia in Literature and Film, State University of West Georgia.
BOOK REVIEWS
Heckman, Davin (forthcoming), Review of Louis Armand, Literate Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity in Social Semiotics.
Heckman, Davin (forthcoming, invited), Review essay of Jason Nelson’s “Between Treacherous Objects,” “This is how you will die,” “Pandemic Rooms,” and “Uncontrollable Semantics” in Hyperrhiz.03.
Heckman, Davin (forthcoming, invited), Review of Daniel Rosenberg and Susan Harding, editors, Histories of the Future in English Studies Canada.
Heckman, Davin (2002), Review of Joe Austin, Taking the Trains in Popmatters (www.popmatters.com).
Heckman, Davin (2001), Review of Jeffrey A. Brown, Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans in Popmatters (www.popmatters.com).
Heckman, Davin (2001), Review of David Markson, This Is Not a Novel in Popmatters (www.popmatters.com).
Heckman, Davin (2001), Review of Henry A. Giroux, The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence in Popmatters (www.popmatters.com).
SERVICE
Peer Reviewer, (forthcoming) Net Art/Electronic Literature Journal
Jason Nelson, ed. Griffith University
Advisory Board, (forthcoming) Cultural Studies Reader,
Michael Ryan, ed. Blackwell Publishers. Winter 2006 - Present
Advisory Board, Hyperrhiz (www.hyperrhiz.net). Summer 2007 - Present
Advisory Board, Reconstruction (www.reconstruction.ws). Winter 2006 - Present
Advisory Board, Rhizomes (www.rhizomes.net). Fall 2003 - Present