a virtual hub for my neuro-network

Angela R. Bennett Segler
Angela R. Bennett Segler
University of Nevada Reno
English Department 0098
Reno, NV 89557

Education
2015 PhD New York University Department of English Language and Literatures
Mediation, Meditation and the Manuscripts of Piers Plowman
2009 MA New York University Department of English Language and Literatures
2006 BA University of Nevada Las Vegas, English cum laude
2014 Maps Models and Databases at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World with Sebastian Heath
2013 School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University: A Political Ecology of Things with Jane Bennett
2011 The Frick Collection, Frick Connection Course: Image, Text, Interpretation with Lee Patterson
Awards, Fellowships and Grants
2014-15 Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, New York University
2013-14 Penfield Award for Literatures and Languages, Department of English, New York University
2013 GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University
2013 School of Criticism and Theory Tuition Grant
2013 English Department Travel Grant, New York University
2012 Provost’s Global Research Initiative, London Research Institute Grant, in conjunction with the Remarque Institute at New York University
2010 Dean’s Travel Grant, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University
2009-14 MacCracken Fellowship, New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
2017 Author and Editor "Quantum Medievalisms" Introduction and Special Essay Cluster in postmedieval: a
journal of medieval literature and culture
2015 “Understanding the Textual Body: A Comprehensive Exhibition of the Manuscript Corpus of Piers Plowman,” Out for Publication
2014 "Picturing Queer Desire in the Vernon Manuscript." Queer Images. Spec. Issue
of View. A Journal of Visual Culture.
2013 “Touched for the Very First Time: losing my manuscript virginity,” Transparent Things: A
Cabinet. Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2013.
2013 “Review of Manuscripts Online: Online Database of over twenty digital manuscript
collections and catalogues.” Digital Philology, forthcoming.
Publications and Select Presentations
2014 “Coactus Tangere, OR Touching, Grasping, Backscattering: analyzing the inter-active touch of parchment,”
Chaucerian Parchment, a panel organized by Bruce Holsinger in the thread “How to Do Things with Books” by
Alexandra Gillespie at the New Chaucer Society Congress, Reykjavík, Iceland
2014 “A Life of Its Own: A Vital Materialist’s Look at the Medieval Manuscript as Agentic Assemblage,” Old Materials New Materialisms sponsored session, 129th Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL
2014 “Manuscript Topographies Using Data Visualization Networks,” a roundtable contribution for New Media in Medieval Studies, at 129th Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago IL
2013 “Dissecting the Body of Piers Plowman: Studies in the Manuscript Corpus,” International Piers Plowman Society sponsored session, 48th International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI
2012 “Cross(dress)ing the lines: Transgressive Signification in The Book of Margery Kempe,” Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages, St. Andrews University, Scotland
2010 “Revelation, Imagination and Fiction: An examination of the nature and status of credentia in The Book of Margery Kempe and contemporary criticism,” International Society of Religion, Literature and Culture, Oxford University, UK
2009 “The Pleasure of the Medieval and the Medievalist: A discussion of the jouissance inherent in the study of the medieval, using Malory’s Morte D’Arthur for illustrative purposes,” EXEMPLARIA sponsored session, 44th International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI
2009 “Glossing the Female Body Holy: Networks of Meaning Production in the Ancrene Wisse,” at Glossing is a Glorious Thing: The Past, Present and Future of Commentary, City University of New York
Ongoing Projects and Collaborations
Embodiment and Materiality, a Google+ hangout, broadcast, and discussion forum for reading and discussing works oriented around the title theme, which we will specifically focus o Neo-classicist philosophy (Descartes, Wittgenstein, Spinoza), Feminist and LGBTQ theory on embodiment, and New Materialism, 2013-14 Academic Year
livestreamed and video archived at https://www.angelabennettsegler.net/#!ongoingarchive/c1m3w
“Measuring Surface Roughness of Parchment using 532nm backscattering techniques,” a collaboration with Dr. Jason P. McClure, chief scientist at Princeton Instruments, facilitated by the Digital Humanities at NYU and the Fales Rare Book Library
“Ink-Space: an algorithmic approach to quantifying and comparing the surface area of a folio occupied by ink inscription,” a collaboration with Dr. Jason P. McClure, chief scientist at Princeton Instruments, via the Digital Scriptorium
Quantum Medievalists and Sundry Associates, a google+ hangout, broadcast, and discussion forum for communal reading and understanding of Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning livestreamed and video archived at http://www.angelabennettsegler.net/#!baradhangouts/c1uyb
Languages
English
Middle English
Anglo-Saxon/Old English
French
Latin
Skills
Photoshop
Adobe Dreamweaver
CSS
Adobe Connect
R statistical analysis
igraph package
ggplot
Excel
Database management
Meshlabs
3D modeling
Augment 3D
KML and Google Earth Markup
CartoDB
Professional Affiliations
Modern Language Association
Cultural Studies Association
BABEL Working Group
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
New Chaucer Society
International Piers Plowman Society
Medieval Academy of America
New York Medieval Club
The Material Collective
2010 - present
2010 - present