Texts & Technology Ph.D. student Mark Pollitt has been active at national and international conferences. On January 29, he presented a paper, "History, Historiography, and the Hermeneutics of the Hard Drive," at the 9th International Federation of Information Processing, Working Group 11.9 Conference in Orlando.
A number of T&T students and faculty are presenting their work at the IEEE Professional Communication Society conference, currently going on October 8-10, 2012. The conference is being hosted at UCF on the upper floors of the Student Union. Presenters include professors Rudy McDaniel, Paul Dombrowski, Robert Lindgren, and Madelyn Flammia; students Carolyn Glasshoff and Meghan Griffin; and recent alumna Sonia Stephens.
T&T student Jasara Hines presented her paper "Fetishizing Food: Man's Power over the Age Old Battle with Food" as part of a panel on "Myths of Stardom: Gods and Monsters: The Construction and Influence of Celebrity" at the biennial Film and History Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that took place on September 26-30, 2012.
Texts and Technology alumnus Tom Cavanaugh was recently recognized for his team’s excellent work in distance learning at UCF by the Sloan Consortium, a higher-education association that promotes online learning.