Sarah Elizabeth Welsh

EDUCATION

PhD | The University of Texas at Austin | April 2020.
English, emphasis in Rhetoric
Dissertation: “Technologies of Forgetting: Techniques, Ethics, and
Rights of Ephemeral Media” | Dr. Clay Spinuzzi (Chair)

 

MA | The Graduate Center, CUNY | 2015
Liberal Studies, emphasis in Digital Humanities
Thesis: “Technology and the Glass Imagination: Isolation and Closeness
from the Window to the Screen.” | Director: Dr. Matthew Gold

 

BA | The University of California, Santa Cruz | 2010.
Literature, with Honors

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed

  • “Ephemerality as Data Prevention: Values for an Ethics of Mobile Media.” Mobile Media & Communication. https://doi.org/10.1177/2050157920932956

  •  “Forgetting as a Function.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 24.2. (Read here)

  •  “Academia is a Job.” In What Graduate Students Do: Expertise, Ethics, and Exploitation. Rethinking Careers, Rethinking Academia Series. University Press of Kansas. (Forthcoming)

  •  “Information Design” in Keywords in Design Thinking. WAC Foundations and Innovations in Technical and Professional Communication Series.  (Forthcoming) 

Book Reviews and Ephemera

  •  Review of “Disconnect: Facebook’s Affective Bonds” by Tero Karppi. Enculturation ( Read here )

  • “Tax plan stifles knowledge and innovation.” The Daily Texan. 12 December, 2017. ( Read here )

  • Review of “Miniature Metropolis: Literature in the Age of Photography and Film” by Andreas Huyssen. The E3W Review of Books. 2016.

 Articles in Preparation

  • “Forgetting Student Work”

    • Preparing for submission to The Journal of Business and Technical Communication

  •  Mediating Monica Lewinsky

    • Preparing for submission to RealLifeMag

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Forgetting the Dead (Users): A Digital Life Within LIMITS.” Association of Internet Researchers. October 2020. (Online)

“Mediating Monica Lewinsky: The Conditional Redemption of Social Media.” Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN. May 2020. (Accepted, Cancelled due to COVID-19)

 “A Rhetoric of Transparency: Experimental Practice in Silicon Valley’s Utopia.” Society for Literature and the Arts. Irvine, CA. November 2019.

 “Resisting the Permanent Record: Blockchain Technology in Education.” Digital Frontiers Conference. Austin, TX. September 2019.

“The Performance of Forgetting Student Work.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Pittsburgh, PA. March 2019.

“Forgetting as a Technology.” Strange Archives Panel. Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN. May 2018.

“Delete this Article: Screenshots, Archives, Digital Forgetting” Computers and Writing. George Mason University. May 2018. 

“An Actor-Network of Classroom Infographics.” Theory and Praxis: Visual Media in the Classroom Modern Language Association (MLA), New York City. January 2018.

“Chora and Rhetorical Invention in Plato’s Phaedrus.” Research Network Forum moderated by Dr. Brad Vivian. Rhetoric Society of America, Atlanta. May 2016

  

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

  • John Slatin Prize for Mastery of Digital Education (Teaching award)

    • Spring 2020

  • E. Bagby Atwood Memorial Graduate Scholarship in English, UT Austin

    • Spring 2019

  •  Excellence Fellowship, Department of English, UT Austin

    • Summer 2018, Summer 2019

  •  Digital Writing and Research Lab Project Fellowship

    • Fall 2017

UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP & EMPLOYMENT

Research Assistant. Good Systems: Designing Good AI. Bridging Barriers Initiative. Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Texas at Austin. Fall 2018-Present.

Assistant Director. Digital Writing and Research Lab. Department of Rhetoric and Writing, University of Texas at Austin. 2017–2019.

Assistant Director of Media Outreach. The Department of English, UT Austin. 2016 –2017.

Graduate Research Assistant. Digital Writing and Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin. Summer 2016.

Assistant Project Director. The Stanton-Heiskell Center for Public Policy. The Graduate Center, CUNY. Spring and Summer 2015.

Project Leader. Data Visualization Research Group, Digital Writing and Research Lab, UT Austin.  Fall 2016.

 

TEACHING

Instructor of Record (The University of Texas at Austin)

  • RHE 312: Writing in Digital Environments, Fall 2019

    • Topic: Digital Identity and Reputation Management

  • INF 351E: Principles in Digital Studies, Fall 2017

    • Topic: Introduction to Digital Humanities

  • RHE 309K: Rhetoric of Digital Publishing, Fall 2016

  • RHE 306: Rhetoric and Writing, Fall 2015, Summer 2016

    • Topic: Race and Criminal Justice

Teaching Assistant (The University of Texas at Austin)

  • Language in the Media, Spring 2018

    • Primary Instructor: Professor Lars Hinrichs

 Other Teaching Experience (The University of California, Santa Cruz)

  • ESL Writing Tutor, Fall 2006-Spring 2010

    • Primary Instructor: Professor James Wilson

  • Teaching Assistant, Writing 23: Grammar and Rhetoric, Spring 2010, Fall 2009

  • Teaching Assistant, Cowell 80B: Imagining Justice, Fall 2006, Fall 2008                              

                                   

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • RSA Institute. University of Maryland, June 2019 

  • KairosCamp Digital Publishing Institute. West Virginia University, July 2017

  • Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT). UT Austin, June 2016

ACADEMIC SERVICE

  • Lower Division Curriculum Committee, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, UT Austin. 2017-2018

  • First-Year Forum Curriculum Committee, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, UT Austin. 2017-2018

  • Ad-Hoc Editor, the E3W Review of Books. 2017.

  • Organizational Committee, The Liberal Studies Student Journal. The Graduate Center, CUNY. 2013-2014

     

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Research Assistant. The Crypto Chronicles (Bitcoin Documentary). Sept 2017–April 2018.

  • Technical Writer and Coordinator. GR Consulting. Oakland, California. 2013–2015.

  • Freelance Writer and Photographer. Acoustic Guitar Magazine, Strings Magazine, San Francisco Weekly, Priceline.com, OneFineStay.com, theStorefront.com. 2010–2015.

  • Marketing Coordinator. Pyramid Consulting Group. New York, New York. February 2013–September 2015.

  • Editorial Assistant. String Letter Publishing. San Rafael, California. October 2010–December 2011 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Association of Internet Researchers (2020)

  • Society of Literature, Science, and the Arts (2019-Present)

  • National Council of Teachers of English (2018-Present)

  • Rhetoric Society of America (2016-Present)

  • Modern Language Association (2015-Present)

  • The Association for Computers and the Humanities (2015-Present)