John David Zuern
Associate Professor
Department of English
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

zuern@hawaii.edu :: phone 808.956.3019 :: fax 808.956.3083
Kuykendall Hall 402 :: 1733 Donaghho Road :: Honolulu, HI 96822

Education

PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin, 1995
MA in English/Creative Writing, University of Texas at Austin, 1993
MA in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin, 1991
BA in English/Honors Program, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, Minnesota, 1986

Employment

Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 2002-present
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 1997-2002
Supervisor and Lecturer, Computer Design Lab, Department of Art, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 1995-1997
Assistant Instructor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin, 1989-1992
Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin, 1988-1989
Teaching Assistant, Department of Germanic Languages, University of Texas at Austin, 1987-1988

Publications

"System, Suspension, Seduction: Anne Bush’s Critical Design Practice."
Visible Language 40.2 (Fall 2006).

“Ask Me for the Moon: Working Nights in Waikiki.”
Iowa Review Web 7.1 (August 2005).
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/mainpages/tirwebhome.htm
Path: Archives → 2005 → August 2005

“Introduction: Writing in Globalization: Currents, Waves, Tides.”
Co-authored with Darin Payne and Judi Kirkpatrick.
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 10.1 (March 2005).
Special Issue on the Twentieth Computers and Writing Conference.
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/9.2/binder2.html?coverweb/bridge/0001.html

“Diagram, Dialectic, Dialogue: Visual Explanations and the Graphical Language of Literary Theory.”
The Humanities and Visual Media: A Pedagogy of Representation. Ed. Kecia Driver McBride, Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2005. 47-73.

“Matter of Time: Toward a Materialist Semiotics of Web Animation.”
Dichtung-Digital 5.27 (2003).
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2003/1-zuern.htm

“Introduction: Online Lives.” Biography 26.1 (Winter 2003): v-xxv.
Special Issue on "Lives Online."

“Making the Virtual Real: University-Community Partnerships.”
Co-authored with Alison Regan.
Virtual Publics: Policy and Community in an Electronic Age. Ed. Beth Kolko. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

“The Future of the Phallus: Time, Mastery, and the Male Body.”
Revealing Male Bodies. Ed. William Cowling, et al. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2002. 55-80.

“Timelines Online: Spatial Rhetoric, Information Architecture, and the Representation of History.”
Text Technology 10.1 (Winter 2001): 1-24.

“Community Service Learning and Computer-Mediated Advanced Composition:
The Going to Class, Getting Online, and Giving Back Project.”
Co-authored with Alison Regan.
Computers and Composition 17.2 (2000): 17-195.

“The Sense of a Link: Hypermedia, Hermeneutics, and the Teaching of Critical Methodologies.”
Literary and Linguistic Computing 14.1 (Fall 1999): 43-54.

“The Reader” (translation, with Markus Frank, of Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Der Lesende”).
Bookworms: Great Writers and Readers Celebrate Reading. Ed. Laura Furman and Elinore Standard. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1996: 318-319.
Commissioned to be read on Canadian Public Radio 1999-2002.

“Ascension”(short fiction). Mānoa 6 (Summer 1994): 50-64.

“The Communicating Labyrinth: André Breton’s ‘La Maison d’Yves’ as a Micro-Manifeste.”
Dada/Surrealism 17 (1988):110-120.
Reprinted in André Breton Today. Ed. Anna Balakian and Rudolf E. Kuenzli, New York: Willis, Locker & Owens, 1989. 110-120.

Presentations

"Enough Rope?: Self-Preservation and Self-Assessment in Student Multimedia Authoring Projects."
Computers and Writing Conference. Lubbock, TX. June 2006.

“Remedial Materialism: ‘Constellation’ and the Political Economy of Electronic Literature.”
Division on Sociological Approaches to Literature. MLA Convention. Philadelphia, PA. December 2004.

“Ethics in the Vestibule: Entry and Passage in Buildings, Bodies, and Texts.”
Division on Literature and other Arts. MLA Convention. Philadelphia, PA. December 2004.

“Alien Life Form: Alterity and Agency in Literary Motion Graphics."
Department of Germanic Studies, Brown University, November 15, 2004.

“Matter of Time: Toward a Materialist Semiotics of Web Animation.”
Special Session on New Media. MLA Convention. New York, NY. December 2002.

“Interpreting Animation and Vice Versa: Can We Philosophize in Flash?”
Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Tübingen, Germany. July 2002.

“Computing Social Justice: Political Dilemmas at the Digital Divide.”
Rethinking Marxism Conference. Amherst, MA. September 2000.

“Timelines Online: Hypermedia and the Representation of History.”
Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Charlottesville, VA. June 1999.

“Why is that Ball Bouncing? Visual Rhetoric in Web-Based Composition.”
Computers and Writing Conference, Rapid City, SD. May 1999.

“Hypermedia in the Hermeneutic Circle.”
Special Session on Computers in English Studies, MLA Convention. San Francisco, CA. December 1998.

“Using Hypermedia to Teach Literary Analysis and Theory.”
Discussion Group on Computer Studies in Language and Literature. MLA Convention. San Francisco, CA. December 1998.

“The Sense of a Link: Hypermedia, Hermeneutics, and the Teaching of Critical Methodologies.”
Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Debrecen, Hungary. July 1998.

“Teaching Literature As Information Technology: Some Strategies in Courseware Design.”
Computers and Writing Conference, Gainesville, FL. May 1998.

“Service-Learning: Adding Value to Volunteerism (K-12).”
Governor’s Conference on Volunteerism. Honolulu, HI. April 1998.

“Writing on the Horizon: Questions of Relevance in a Multimedia Learning Environment.”
Computers and Writing Conference, Honolulu, HI. June 1997.

“The Seductions of Kaspar Hauser: Trauma, Psychoanalysis, and the Critique of Ideology.”
Conference of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. Washington, D.C. November 1996.

“A Poetics of Courage and Consolation: Rereading Cavafy in the AIDS Crisis.”
Special Session, Modern Greek Studies Association, MLA Convention. Chicago, IL December 1995.

“Mignon, Diotima, Dora: Conversion and Hysteria in Narratives of Male Development.”
Yale Graduate Conference in Germanic Studies. New Haven, CT. April 1993.

Response. “Cultural Studies as Cultural Activism.”
Comparativism: Cultural Studies Across the Disciplines Conference, University of Texas at Austin, October 1990.

“The ‘Other Face’ of the Word: Martin Luther and the Language of Conversion.”
Conference of the Sixteenth Century Studies Society, Minneapolis, MN. October 1989.

Colloquia and Workshops

“Working Nights in Waikiki: A Reading and Discussion of Literary Motion Graphics.” UH Department of English Colloquium Series, August 30, 2004

“Writing for the Web,” Pacific New Media Certificate Program, Outreach College, UHM, March 19. 2005

“Writing for the Web,” Pacific New Media Certificate Program, Outreach College, UHM. August 26, 2001

“Writing an Abstract” (workshop for graduate students), UHM Department of English, February 16, 2001

“Teaching Literature Online” (with Jan Roush), UHM Department of English, April 11, 2000

“Teaching with Service Learning,” UHM Department of English, September 23, 1999

Basic Internet Workshop for Senior Citizens, Kokua Council for Senior Citizens Education, Honolulu, HI October 29, 1997 and September 9, 1998

“Introduction to Adobe PageMaker” and “Intermediate Adobe PageMaker.” Pacific New Media Certificate Program, Outreach College, UHM. From 1997-2002 I conducted at least two workshops each semester in beginning and advanced applications of Adobe PageMaker, at the time a leading program for desktop publishing.

Grants

Special Research Fund Grant, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, to conduct research and interviews for book project Articulate Animation: Motion and Meaning in Electronic Literature.

Educational Improvement Fund Grant, University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa, to develop an online course in digital Literature, 2003.

MCI/WorldCom Making a Civic Investment Grant (with Douglas Dykstra and Robert Franco), 2000.

Hawai‘i Committee for the Humanities Grant (with Juliana Spahr), 1999.

University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa National Endowment for the Humanities Fund Grant (with Susan Schultz), 1998

Research and Training Fund Award, University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa, 1998

Women’s Campus Club Grant, University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa (with Alison Regan), 1998

Research Relations Fund Award, University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa, 1997

Voyager Equipment Grant, Hawai‘i Education and Research Network, 1997

Women’s Campus Club Equipment Grant, University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa, 1997

Training Grant, Hawai‘i Education and Research Network, 1996.

Research Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, 1993-1994

Editorial Fellowship, American Short Fiction, University of Texas, 1992-1993 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Travel Grant, 1991.

National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholars Grant, 1984

Awards

Chancellor's Citation for Excellence in Teaching, UHM, 2005

Ellen Nold Award for Best Article in the journal Computers and Composition (with Alison Regan)
for “Community Service Learning and Computer-Mediated Advanced Composition:
The Going to Class, Getting Online, and Giving Back Project,” 2001

Thomas Gething Service Learning Award (with Alison Regan), UHM, 1998

Nomination for 1995 Outstanding Dissertation at the University of Texas, Program in Comparative Literature, 1995

Pushcart Prize nomination for short story “Ascension,” 1995

Editorial Fellowship, American Short Fiction, University of Texas at Austin,1992-1993

Fania Kruger Award for Short Fiction on Social Justice, University of Texas at Austin, 1993

Professional Service

Department of English, UHM

2006
Director, Undergraduate Program

Chair, Department Curriculum Committee

2005-2006
Department Curriculum Committee

Chair, Computer-Mediated Communication Committee

2004-2005
Department Representative, University Hawai‘i Professional Association

Department Curriculum Committee

2003-2005
Chair, Computer-Mediated Communication Committee

Department Curriculum Committee

2001-2003
Graduate Program Committee

Policy Committee

2001-2002
Literary Studies Concentration Advisor, Graduate Program

2001-2002
Search Committee

Service Learning Committee

Discussion Facilitator, Celebrating Teen Reading Literature Festival

Judge, Honors Symposium, UH Honors Program

1998-2005
Promotional Materials Coordinator, Joseph Keene Chadwick Memorial Lecture Series

1998-2002
Director, Writing Workshop

Co-Director, Center for English Studies Technology

Department Web Site design and management

1998-2000
Organizing Committee, Hawai‘i Fall Celebration of Writers

1998-1999
Graduate Program Committee

Policy Committee

1997-2006
Major Advisor

University of Hawaii at Manoa

2005-2006
Contemporary Ethical Issues Focus Board, General Education Committee

Affiliated Faculty Member, East-West Center Cultural Studies Certificate Program

2004-2005
Contemporary Ethical Issues Focus Board, General Education Committee

Affiliated Faculty Member, East-West Center Cultural Studies Certificate Program

2002-2003
Chair, Educational Planning and Policy Committee, Colleges of Arts and Sciences

2000-2001
Educational Planning and Policy Committee, College of Arts and Sciences

1999-2005
Advisory Committee and Instructor, Pacific New Media Certificate Program, Outreach College, UHM

Teaching Experience

Department of English, UHM
Since 1997 I have taught classes in literary theory, history of rhetoric, rhetoric and composition, electronic literature, literature and technology, and backgrounds to Western literature. I have also regularly taught our department’s introductory writing course for freshmen.

Department of Art, UHM and Department of Art, Kapi‘olani Community College
From 1994 to 1997, I taught the introductory course in computer design in the UHM Graphic Design program, a course in Internet authoring and design, and a course in JavaScript for artists at Kapi‘olani Community College.

Technical Experience

Management of a departmental computer facility
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and website development and management
graphic design and multimedia applications: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Freehand, Director, Flash
course management/synchronous communication tools: WebCT, MOO, web logs

Languages

English, German, French, Russian