Updated winter 2017

Matt Applegate
The Department of English
Molloy College
1000 Hempstead Avenue
Rockville Centre, New York 11571-5002
Mapplegate@molloy.edu
http://mapplega.com

Education
2014 Ph.D., Comparative Literature (Philosophy, Literature, & the Theory of Criticism),
Binghamton University, State University of New YorkSUNY

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

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

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

Employment
2014-Present Molloy College, Assistant Professor of English & Digital Humanities, Director of the
Writing Concentration

Research & Teaching Interests

Critical Theory, Digital Humanities, Digital Literacy, the Political Economy of Media, Critical Code
Studies, Screen Studies

Book
Guerrilla Theory: Political Concepts, Critical Digital Humanities, manuscript under review/in revision

Peer-Reviewed Essays & Chapters

Glitch-Writing, or, How to Break Twitter, Buzzademia Anthology, Eds. Mark C. Marino, Kim Knight,
& Anne Cong-Huyen, Forthcoming

Communicating Graphically: Mimesis, Visual Communication, & Commodification as Culture, w/

Jamie Cohen, Cultural Politics, 13.1 (spring 2017): 81-100

Urban Guerrillas on Film: Mediatization, Guerrilla Filmmaking, and Guerrilla Seeing in Emile de
Antonios Underground, Cultural Critique, 93.2 (spring 2016): 59-85

Gltchd in ranslation: Rading ext & Cod as a Pla of $pacs, Amodern Issue 6: Reading the
Illegible, Open Access: <http://amodern.net/article/glitched-in-translation/>

Imagining the End of Late Capitalism in Shane Carruths Primer and Upstream Color, Theory &
Event 19.2 (spring 2016)
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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

Improvising the Future: Theory, Practice, and Struggle in Adorno and Horkheimers 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): 76-80
Open Access: <http://www.reviewsinculture.com/?r=115>

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

Car, Hacker, Exit: Three Movements of Ecologica. Review of Ecologica by Andr 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
Gltchd 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/>
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Grants
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 Projects
Creator & 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 & 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
Universitt Lneburg: <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

A DH that is Critical of the University: An Alt-Genealogy of DH Praxis. Presented at the 133rd Annual
Modern Language Association (MLA), winter 2018

Digital Humanities as Critical University Studies. Presented at Digital Humanities 2017, Accepted as
a Long Paper, summer 2017
Editors Choice @ Digital Humanities Now: http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2017/08/dh-2017-
presentation-dh-as-critical-university-studies/

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
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Adversarial Design as Multimodal Process: The Digital Manifesto Archive & @DHManifesto Bot.
Presented on the Thats Not How Scholarship Works! roundtable at the 132nd Annual Modern
Language Association (MLA), winter 2017
Zine for Presentation: <https://mapplega.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/participatory-conflict-
1.pdf>

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

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

Gltchd in ranslation: Rading ext & Cod as a Pla of $pacs. Presented at the Berkeley
Conference on Precarious Aesthetics, fall 2015

Game Your Way to Enlightenment: Timothy Learys 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 Carruths 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
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Guerrilla Seeing: Aesthetics, Subjectivity, and Mediatization in Emile de Antonios 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

Cartography, Expanded Cinema, and the Time of the Now. Presented at the Annual Department of
Comparative Literature Conference at Binghamton UniversitySUNY, 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 UniversitySUNY, spring 2011

Public Lectures & Invited Presentations

Lets Make Something! Accounting for the Labor and Impact of The Digital Manifesto Archive, the
GSO Speaker Series @ The Department of Comparative Literature, Binghamton UniversitySUNY,
spring 2015

Civil Rights Now: Black Lives Matter and the School to Prison Pipeline, Panel Participant, Molloy
College, fall 2015

Digital Writing & Design: Lets 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 Tambellinis Black TV: Intermedia, Process Perception, and the Network
Subject IASH Community of Scholars Presentation (the Institute for Advanced Studies in the
Humanities), Binghamton UniversitySUNY, 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
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Up Against the Wall: Guerrilla Discourse and DIY Media in 1960s 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 Experience
Molloy College
Media Archaeology SAP 261
English Writing Seminar ENG 495
Research & Communication COM 260
Introduction to New Media ENG/COM/NMD 243
Writing for the Web ENG/COM/NMD 228
Writing in the Digital Age ENG 200
Maj. American Authors I ENG 243
Short Story (Hybrid) ENG 162
The Pursuit of Wisdom PHI 100
College Writing ENG 110
Introduction to College Writing ENG 100

Awaiting Approval
Coding for the Humanities
Blogs, Zines, and e-Books
Digital Preservation
Interactive Writing & Design

Binghamton University
Cinema & Violence COLI 331E/COLI 280R
Sections:
Narratives of Class Mobility & Class Mobilization
Propaganda & War
Reel Violence, Slow Violence, Spectacular Violence
Television Culture COLI 331T
Literature & Psychology: Diagnosis, Colony, Weapon COLI 211B
Literature & Society: Manifestos & The Politics of Speculation COLI 214B
World Literature I COLI 110
Cosmopolitanism & Cosmo-politics PIC 280

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

University Service
Molloy College
Co-Chair, Committee on Online/Hybrid Teaching Evaluation, 2016-2017
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Co-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

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

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

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

Organizer, Comparative Literature Graduate Student Organization Annual Conference at Binghamton

UniversitySUNY, Forms of Life: Literature, Politics, Aesthetics, 2012

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

Additional Professional Experience

Panel Organizer, Digital Humanities as Critical University Studies, at the 133rd Annual Modern
Language Association (MLA, winter 2018

Panel Organizer, Digital Humanities in Secondary Education, at the 132nd Annual Modern Language
Association (MLA), winter 2017
Editors Choice @ Digital Humanities Now: http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2016/10/mla-panel-
739-2017-digital-humanities-in-secondary-ed-matt-applegate/

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

Editorial Internship, Telos Press/TELOSthreads, 2013

Interview: <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 Affiliations
The Modern Language Association (MLA)
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Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS)

Academic Awards
Binghamton 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
UniversitySUNY, 2013-2014

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

Languages
Spanish Research Language

German Research Language

French Research Language

HTML, CSS, Python Digital Languages

References
Available upon request