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Matt ApplegateThe Department of English

Molloy College1000 Hempstead Avenue

Rockville Centre, New York 11571-5002Mapplegate@molloy.edu

http://mapplega.com

Education2014 Ph.D., Comparative Literature (Philosophy, Literature, & the Theory of Criticism), Binghamton University, State University of New York—SUNY

2010 M.A., Philosophy (Philosophy, Interpretation & Culture), Binghamton University, State University of New York—SUNY

2008 B.A., magna cum laude, Literature, Point Loma Nazarene University

B.A., magna cum laude, Philosophy, Point Loma Nazarene University

Employment2014-Present Molloy College, Assistant Professor of English & Digital Humanities, Director of the

Writing Concentration

Research & Teaching InterestsCritical Theory, Digital Humanities, Digital Literacy, the Political Economy of Media, Critical Code

Studies, Screen Studies

BookGuerrilla Theory: Political Concepts for a Critical Digital Humanities, manuscript under review

Peer-Reviewed Essays & Chapters“Communicating Graphically: Mimesis, Visual Communication, & Commodification as Culture,” w/ Jamie Cohen, Cultural Politics, Forthcoming

“Urban Guerrillas on Film: Mediatization, Guerrilla Filmmaking, and Guerrilla Seeing in Emile de Antonio’s Underground,” Cultural Critique, 93.2 (spring 2016): 59-85.

“Glîtchéd in †ranslation: Rèading †ext & Codè as a Plaÿ of $pacés,” Amodern Issue 6: Reading the Illegible, Open Access: <http://amodern.net/article/glitched-in-translation/>

“Imagining the End of Late Capitalism in Shane Carruth’s Primer and Upstream Color,” Theory & Event 19.2 (spring 2016)

“The Wire at a Distance: The Socio-Cultural Determination of Meaning and the Challenges of Online Learning” Anthology entitled, The Wire in the College Classroom: Pedagogical Approaches to the Humanities, Eds. Naomi Crummey & Karen Dillon, McFarland Press, 2015, 196-211

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“Improvising the Future: Theory, Practice, and Struggle in Adorno and Horkheimer’s Towards a New Manifesto.” Telos 162 (spring 2013): 177-181

“Virtuality and Resistance: Situating the Manifesto Between Command and Political Metamorphosis.” Borderlands e-Journal 11.3 (2012), Open Access: <http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol11no3_2012/applegate_virtuality.pdf>

Selected Reviews“Low Theory.” Review of Telesthesia: Communication, Culture & Class by McKenzie Wark. Reviews in Cultural Theory 4.1 (2013): 76-80Open Access: <http://www.reviewsinculture.com/?r=115>

“The Emancipatory Power of Critical Art.” Review of The Emancipated Spectator by Jacques Rancière. Socialism & Democracy, 26.3 (2012): 209-212

“Car, Hacker, Exit: Three Movements of Ecologica.” Review of Ecologica by André Gorz. Radical Philosophy Review, 14.2 (2011): 223-226

“The Multivoiced Body.” Review of The Multivoiced Body: Society and Communication in the Age of Diversity by Fred Evans. Radical Philosophy Review, 13.2 (2010): 113-117

Occasional Writing“Glîtchéd in †ranslation,” Conference Proceedings, The Berkeley Conference on Precarious Aesthetics, Open Access: <http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/AESTH_Matt_Applegate.pdf>

“Gramsci and the Politics of Literary Criticism,” Telos Press/TELOSthreads, Open Access: <http://www.telospress.com/gramsci-and-the-politics-of-literary-criticism/>

“Education, Revolt!” Telos Press/TELOSthreads, Open Access: <http://www.telospress.com/education-revolt/>

“The Roots of the Knowledge Factory: Coercion, Exploitation, and Pedagogy” Telos Press/TELOSthreads, Open Access: <http://www.telospress.com/the-roots-of-the-knowledge-factory-coercion-exploitation-and-pedagogy/>

“Filming Capital, Filming Ourselves: Uncovering the Revolutionary Horizons of Cinematic Thought and Practice” Telos Press/TELOSthreads, Open Access: <http://www.telospress.com/filming-capital-filming-ourselves-uncovering-the-revolutionary-horizon-of-cinematic-thought-and-practice/>

“Toward a Virtual Topography of the Manifesto.” TELOSscope: Telos Press Online, Open Access: <http://www.telospress.com/toward-a-virtual-topography-of-the-manifesto/>

Grants

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Co-Investigator, New York State Economic Development Council Grant, $300,000, awarded for the New Media Collaboratory @ The Schubert School, Molloy College and the Baldwin School District, 2015

Digital ProjectsCreator & Designer, Molloy Media Archaeology in Ireland

Map (powered by Mapbox, customized with Javascript) <http://molloymediaarchaeology.org>Archive (powered by Omeka), <http://molloyenglish.org/omeka-2.4/>

Map & Archive built on location @ Dundalk Institute of Technology in Dundalk, Ireland with undergraduates from Molloy College. Built in consultation with Jamie Cohen & Margaret De Lima.

Administration of student-led work on <http://franklinsquarearchive.org/>, an Omeka archive dedicated to digitizing archival material for The Franklin Square Historical Society on Long Island.

Co-Creator and Administrator of the @DigitalManifesto bot (Twitter).

Co-Creator & Administrator of The Digital Manifesto Archive, <http://digitalmanifesto.net/>Interviews

Professor Jeffrey Schnapp, Romance Languages & Literatures @ Harvard University, Co-Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DrfiAuI4Og>

Dr. Yuk Hui, Postdoctoral Reseacher at the Centre for Digital Cultures @ Leuphana Universität Lüneburg: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsCaXWejPcU>

Rosa Menkman, Glitch Artist: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeJYwBxw73U>

Professor McKenzie Wark, Culture and Media @ The New School for Social Research: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc9BD35YUSs>

Geert Lovink, Founding Director of the Institute for Network Cultures, <http://digitalmanifesto.net/LovinkDMAinterview.pdf>

Selected Conference Presentations“Bringing DH Methods & New Media Principles to Underserved High School Students.” Presented on the “Digital Humanities in Secondary Education” panel at the 132nd Annual Modern Language Association (MLA), winter 2017

“Adversarial Design as Multimodal Process: The Digital Manifesto Archive & @DHManifesto Bot.” Presented on the “That’s Not How Scholarship Works!” roundtable at the 132nd Annual Modern Language Association (MLA), winter 2017

“Thinking Tactical Contradiction in the Digital Humanities.” Presented at the 30th Annual Symposium on African American Culture & Philosophy @ Purdue University, winter 2016

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“A Guerrilla Theory for the Digital Humanities.” Presented at the Keystone Digital Humanities Conference, Accepted as a Long Paper, summer 2016

“Communicating with the Homologlyph: Mimesis, Visual Culture, & Commodification as Culture.” Presented on the “Digital Dispersions” panel with Jamie Cohen at the 56th Annual Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS) Conference, spring 2016

“Making The Digital Manifesto Archive.” Presented with Yu Yin To on the “Digital Humanities & The Archive” panel at the 131st Annual Modern Language Association (MLA), winter 2016

“Glîtchéd in †ranslation: Rèading †ext & Codè as a Plaÿ of $pacés.” Presented at the Berkeley Conference on Precarious Aesthetics, fall 2015

“Game Your Way to Enlightenment: Timothy Leary’s Mind Mirror and the New Mysticism of Self-Discovery.” Presented on the “Literature & Religion After 1900” panel at the 46th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), spring 2015

“The Politics of Anonymity: Aldo Tambellini, Third Cinema, and Black Mask.” Presented on the “Political Engagements: Resistance and Activism in Film and Media” panel at the 55th Annual Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS) Conference, spring 2015.

“Imagining the End of Late Capitalism: Exploitation and Escape in Shane Carruth’s Primer and Upstream Color.” Presented on the “Blockbusters, Technologies, Apocalypses” panel at the 54th Annual Society of Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS) Conference, spring 2014.

“Digital Democracies: The Virtual, The Real, and the Foreclosure of Dissent.” Presented on the “Mediatized Democracy” panel at the 8th Annual Telos Press Conference, winter 2014

“Realizing a Materialist Literary Criticism: Hardt and Negri on the Politics of Literary Inquiry.” Presented on the “Reading with Negri” panel at the 129th Annual MLA (Modern Language Association) Convention, winter 2014

“Mobilizing Negative Affects: Representing Resentment and Hatred in the Literature and Visual Culture of the Black Panther Party.” Presented at the 8th International Rethinking Marxism Conference, hosted by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, fall 2013

“‘Guerrilla Seeing’: Aesthetics, Subjectivity, and Mediatization in Emile de Antonio’s Underground.” Presented on the “Representing Revolution” panel at the Marxist Literary Group Institute on Culture and Society, summer 2013

“Capitalism is a Pyramid Scheme: Propaganda, Ephemera, and Narratives of Class Identity.” Presented on the “Representing Class Mobility: Time, Space, History, and Form” panel at the 44th Annual NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) Conference, Hosted by Tufts University, spring 2013

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“Cartography, Expanded Cinema, and the Time of the Now.” Presented at the Annual Department of Comparative Literature Conference at Binghamton University—SUNY, Forms of Life: Literature, Politics, Aesthetics, spring 2012

“Manifesting the Function of an Immanent Desire: Producing a Virtual Topography of the Manifesto.” Presented on the “Transnationalist Spaces” panel at the Annual Telos Institute Conference: Space: Virtuality, Territoriality, and Relationality, winter 2012

“Situating the Manifesto After Marx: Time, Protest, and Insurrection.” Presented on the “Time of Protest” panel at The 21st Annual PIC (Philosophy, Interpretation, & Culture) Conference, The Revolution of Time and the Time of Revolution, Binghamton University—SUNY, spring 2011

Public Lectures & Invited Presentations“Let’s Make Something! Accounting for the Labor and Impact of The Digital Manifesto Archive,” the GSO Speaker Series @ The Department of Comparative Literature, Binghamton University—SUNY, spring 2015

“Civil Rights Now: Black Lives Matter and the School to Prison Pipeline,” Panel Participant, Molloy College, fall 2015 “Digital Writing & Design: Let’s Glitch the Interface!,” THATCamp @ Molloy College, summer 2015

“Collaborating with Digital Technologies (Prezi, Google Docs, Padlet),” Molloy College, Communicating Across the Curriculum, spring 2015

“Archiving the Digital Manifesto,” Molloy College, fall 2014

“Digital Writing Platforms for Arts Education,” Balanced Mind Curriculum Conference XVIII, Molloy College, fall 2014

“Conceptualizing Aldo Tambellini’s Black TV: Intermedia, Process Perception, and the Network Subject” IASH Community of Scholars Presentation (the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities), Binghamton University—SUNY, spring 2014

“The Wire and the Limits of the Political,” Invited Lecture at the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies, the University of Redlands, spring 2014

“Up Against the Wall: Guerrilla Discourse and DIY Media in 1960’s Manhattan,” IASH Community of Scholars Presentation (the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities), Binghamton University—SUNY, fall 2013

“Biopolitics and the Imperatives of Guerrilla Discourse.” Presented at the Department of Comparative Studies Annual Lecture Series, the Ohio State University (OSU), spring 2013

Teaching ExperienceMolloy College

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Media Archaeology SAP 261English Writing Seminar ENG 495Research & Communication COM 260Introduction to New Media ENG/COM/NMD 243Writing for the Web ENG/COM/NMD 228Writing in the Digital Age ENG 200Maj. American Authors I ENG 243Short Story (Hybrid) ENG 162The Pursuit of Wisdom PHI 100College Writing ENG 110Introduction to College Writing ENG 100

Awaiting ApprovalCoding for the HumanitiesBlogs, Zines, and e-BooksDigital PreservationInteractive Writing & Design

Binghamton UniversityCinema & Violence COLI 331E/COLI 280R

Sections: Narratives of Class Mobility & Class MobilizationPropaganda & WarReel Violence, Slow Violence, Spectacular Violence

Television Culture COLI 331TLiterature & Psychology: Diagnosis, Colony, Weapon COLI 211BLiterature & Society: Manifestos & The Politics of Speculation COLI 214BWorld Literature I COLI 110Cosmopolitanism & Cosmo-politics PIC 280

Professional ServiceInterim Co-Chair for the Caucus on Class (CoC), Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS), 2014-2015

University ServiceMolloy CollegeCo-Founder & Organizer, The New Media Academy @ The Schubert School, in partnership with Molloy College and Baldwin School District, 2015-Present

Information Technology Task Force Member, Molloy College, 2015-2016

Contract Committee Member, Molloy College, 2015-2016

Lead Organizer, THATCamp @Molloy (Technology & Humanities Camp), Molloy College, summer 2015

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Committee Member, Digital Humanities Major Proposal, a new major designed to link computer science with the humanities, Molloy College, 2014-2016

Binghamton UniversityVice President of the COLI GSO (the Department of Comparative Literature Graduate Student Organization) at Binghamton University—SUNY, 2012-2013

President of the COLI GSO (the Department of Comparative Literature Graduate Student Organization) at Binghamton University—SUNY, 2011-2012

Organizer, Comparative Literature Graduate Student Organization Annual Conference at Binghamton University—SUNY, Forms of Life: Literature, Politics, Aesthetics, 2012

President of the PIC GSO (the Philosophy, Interpretation & Culture Graduate Student Organization) at Binghamton University—SUNY, 2009-2010

Additional Professional ExperiencePanel Organizer, “Digital Humanities in Secondary Education,” at the 132nd Annual Modern Language Association (MLA), winter 2017

Panel Organizer, “The Digital Manifesto & The Archive,” at the 131st Annual Modern Language Association (MLA), winter 2016

Web Maintenance, The English Department, Molloy College, 2014-Present

Editorial Internship, Telos Press/TELOSthreads, 2013Interview: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqOCC6N-GFk&w=420&h=315>

Web Design/Maintenance, Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Program, Binghamton University—SUNY, 2008-2009

Professional AffiliationsThe Modern Language Association (MLA)

Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS)

Academic AwardsBinghamton University (Graduate)Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF), the Department of Comparative Literature, Binghamton University—SUNY, 2013-2014

IASH Doctoral Fellowship, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Binghamton University—SUNY, 2013-2014

Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Graduate Student Conference Award, the 8th Annual Telos Press Conference, 2014

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LanguagesSpanish Research Language

German Research Language

French Research Language

HTML, CSS, jQuery, Python Digital Languages

ReferencesAvailable upon request