Resume

• 2008

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Member of Search Committee for 19th Century Americanist/Digital Humanist position

  Spring 2012. \n\nResearch Assistant. Working with Dr. Debbie Lee on her NEH-funded Wild Lives project. Spring 2009 to Fall 2011.\n\nCo-curator of “Nature Twice”

  an interdisciplinary arts and science exhibit shown at the Conner \nMuseum at WSU. Fall 2010. \n\nMember of WSU English Department's ENGL 101 Syllabus Planning Committee. 2010-2011.\n\nPeer Reviewer

  International Journal of Arts and Technology. 2009.

  English Language and Literature/Letters

  Member of WSU English Graduate Organization (EGO) from 2009 to 2012. Elected Teaching Assistant Coordinator in 2010

  and Colloquium Chair in 2011. Selected to be a New Graduate Student Mentor. 2010-2012.

  Washington State University

• 2005

  Master of Arts (M.A.)

  Participated in organizing WSU Freshman Focus

  an interdisciplinary academic program for incoming freshmen. Supervisor Dr. Karen Weathermon. 2006-2007.

  English Language and Literature/Letters

  Washington State University

• 1999

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  Graduated Summa Cum Laude

  and with General Honors

  English Language and Literature/Letters

  Member of Golden Key Honor Society

  2001-2003.\n\nMember of Sigma Tau Delta

  2002-2003.

  Kent State University

  British and Irish Literature 1900-Present

  Literary Criticism

  20th Century British Literature Seminar

  History of The English Language

  Freshman Honors Colloquium I and II

  Literary Theory Seminar I

  Appalachian Literature Seminar

  Introduction to Shakespeare (Honors)

  American Literature Seminar I

  Introduction To Creative Writing

  American Literature Seminar II

  Introduction To Graduate Studies

  English Studies

  Introduction To Philosophy (Honors)

  20th Century British Literature Seminar II

  Linguistics

  Literary Theory Seminar II

  History of the English Language

  Honors Independent Study

• Instructional Design

  Student Affairs

  Theory

  Academic Writing

  College Teaching

  Educational Technology

  Grant Writing

  E-Learning

  Student Development

  Curriculum Development

  Public Speaking

  Teaching

  Curriculum Design

  Editing

  Community Outreach

  Research

  University Teaching

  Tutoring

  Qualitative Research

  Higher Education

  Review of Digital Cityscapes: Merging Digital and Urban Playscapes

  Review of Digital Cityscapes: Merging Digital and Urban Playscapes

  “Cooperative and Collaborative Writing With Google Docs.”

  \"'Turne Up This Croked Wey' : The Pardoner

  the Old Man

  and the Second Death in Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale'\" (Master's Thesis)

  This dissertation is a critique of the American concept of wilderness. Traditionally

  this concept has assumed the necessity of a geographic locus that embodies the qualities of \"the natural

  \" but I challenge this assumption

  positing that what we value most in our interactions with wilderness places is not the physical location

  but instead a quality of experience that we find at that location. By theorizing how this quality can be transplanted to contexts beyond the wilderness place in the first two chapters

  I argue for a new concept of wilderness that is not constrained by geography

  that allows us access to experiential wildness nearly anytime and anywhere. The remaining three chapters provide practical examples of how this wildness can be deterritorialized.

  Alternative Wildernesses: Finding Wildness in 21st Century America (Dissertation)

  Jacob Hughes

  The mobile internet expands the immersive potential of storytelling by introducing electronic games powered by portable

  location-aware interfaces. Mobile gaming has become the latest iteration in a decades-long evolution of electronic games that seek to empower the player not just as an avatar in a gameworld but also as a co-author of that gameworld

  alongside the game’s original designers. Location-aware interfaces allow players to implicate places in the physical world as part of their gameworld (and vice versa) for the first time. In addition to empowering the player as a co-author in the process of constructing a compelling gameworld

  then

  mobile games eschew linear narrative structures in favor of a cooperative storytelling process that is reliant in part on the player’s experience of place. While such an author-player “worldmaking” approach to storytelling is not new

  mobile games evolve the process beyond what has yet been possible within the technical and physical constraints of the traditional video gaming format. Location-aware interfaces allow mobile games to extend the worldmaking process beyond the screen and into the physical world

  co-opting the player’s sensory experiences of real-world places as potential storytelling tools. In our essay

  we theorize the unique storytelling potential of mobile games while describing our experience attempting to harness that potential through the design and implementation of our hybrid-reality game University of Death.

  “The Player As Author: Exploring the Effects of Mobile Gaming and the Location-Aware Interface on Storytelling.”

  “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Why Video Game-to-Film Adaptations Fail.”

  Review of Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960

  Review of This Ecstatic Nation: The American Landscape and the Aesthetics of Patriotism

  This project

  which was awarded a $200

  000 NEH grant

  is in the process of establishing an online media archive of historical materials related to the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area. In addition to helping plan the layout of the website

  much of my work on the project involved reading historical documents and summarizing their content

  organizing and scanning photographs

  and digitizing audio recordings that previously only existed in analog formats

  in order to better preserve them.

  Bunting

  Ben

  Bunting

  Washington State University

  Washington State University

  Washington State University

  Washington State University

  Oregon Institute of Technology

  Pullman

  WA

  Taught courses while working toward my M.A.

  including:\n\nENGL 101 Freshman Composition x 4\nENGL 102 Writing Workshop\n\nGraded for and otherwise assisted with one section of GenEd 110

  a World History course taught by Dr. Marie Glynn.\n\nGraded for and shadowed Dr. Aimee Phan in an Intermediate Fiction Writing course.\n\nGraded for Dr. Michael Hanly.

  Teaching Assistant

  Washington State University

  Pullman

  WA

  Taught courses while working toward my Ph.D.

  including:\nENGL 410/CES 405 Cultural Criticism and Theory \nENGL 483 Chaucer and Medieval Literature\nENGL/AmSt 472 American Nature Writing\nENGL 110 Reading Now!\nENGL 201 Research Writing x 4 \nENGL 101 Freshman Composition x 3\n\nTeam-taught the course ENGL 373 20th and 21st Century Global Literatures with Dr. Jon Hegglund.\n\nGraded and served as Discussion Leader for two sections of ENGL 302 Introduction to English Studies

  taught by Drs. George Kennedy

  Donna Campbell

  Chris Arigo

  Crag Hill

  and Robert Eddy.\n\nGraded for Dr. Michael Hanly and Andrea Mason

  M.F.A.

  Teaching Assistant

  Washington State University

  Pullman

  WA

  Taught a 2/3 course load during AY 2012-2013

  including:\nENGL 210 Readings in American Literature\nENGL 475 Digital Diversity\nENGL 201 Research Writing x 2\nHUM 101 Humanities in the Ancient World\n\nRevised my dissertation into a book manuscript.\n\nGraded for Dr. Michael Hanly.

  Charles Blackburn Postdoctoral Fellow

  Washington State University

  Pullman

  WA

  Taught a 3/3 load

  including:\n\nENGL 101 Freshman Composition x 6\n\nGraded for Dr. Michael Hanly.

  Adjunct Instructor

  Washington State University

  Klamath Falls

  OR

  Tenure-track position in the department of Humanities and Social Sciences. I teach a 4/4/4 load during the academic year

  as well as participating in many institutional service opportunities and continuing my research on the phenomenological value of both physical and virtual wildernesses.\n\nI'll attach a 2015 CV in the summary section as soon as I have a revised draft available.

  Assistant Professor of the Humanities

  Oregon Institute of Technology

  French

  English

  Middle (1100-1500)

  English

  English

  Old (ca.450-1100)

  Spanish

  The Louise Schleiner Award

  Awarded to graduate students who pass their doctoral exams with high distinction.

  Washington State University English Department

  Charles Blackburn Postdoctoral Fellowship

  A one year fellowship awarded for promise in the profession of literary studies

  as indicated by the outstanding quality of the dissertation

  overall academic achievement

  and outstanding teaching performance.

  Washington State University English Department

  The Harold and Jeanne Rounds Olsen Writing in the Disciplines Faculty Service Award

  Washington State University English Department