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EDKB Development Team
Summer 2003
The English Department Knowledge Base project was initiated
in the summer of 2003 by a group of English Department graduate
students under the supervision of Professors Alan
Liu and Rita
Raley. The original development team included Mike
Frangos, Zia Isola, Sarah
McLemore, Michael Perry, and Melissa
Colleen Stevenson.
Mike
Frangos
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Mike is a PhD student in
the English department at UCSB focusing on modern
and postmodern American and Anglophone literature.
He is currently most interested in science fiction,
contemporary British and American avant gardes,
popular culture, and Japanese and American comparative
literature and cultural studies. Mike's other interests
include poststructuralism and psychoanalysis.
Mike contributed most to this
project by gathering and converting teaching materials
to HTML, organizing a First Qualifying Exam reading
materials section of the website, as well as working
on a coursebuilder site for Enda Duffy's English
104B.
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Zia
Isola
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Zia
Isola is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department
and an Instructor in the Literature Department of
the College of Creative Studies. Zia’s area
of specialization is medieval English literature and
culture, with a special focus on popular religion.
Zia is currently writing her dissertation, “Consuming
Passion: Poetics of the Eucharist in Late Medieval
England,” and teaching a course on medieval
drama.
Zia contributed to the content
of the English Department Knowledge Base by developing
an online TA Handbook, gathering and converting course
materials to HTML, and by writing information guides
to departmental and campus-wide resources. Zia also
assisted English Department instructors in using Coursebuilder
to create websites for their courses.
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Sarah
McLemore
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Sarah
McLemore is a PhD student in the English department
at UCSB specializing in Modern Irish literature. Her
other research interests include the Gothic novel,
literatures of decolonization, and the intersection
of war, terrorism, and modernist literature.
Sarah contributed to the content
of the English Department Knowledge Base by contributing
teaching resources and by designing guides focused
on the lesson plan development and the teaching of
discussion sections. She also helped several professors
to build websites for courses taught in the UCSB English
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a brief
academic profile
what you worked on this summer |
Michael
Perry
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Melissa
Colleen Stevenson
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Melissa Stevenson is a PhD candidate
in the English department at UCSB with a specialization
in science fiction and the intersection of technology
and popular culture. She is currently at work on
a dissertation project entitled "Ghosts and
Machines: Science Fiction, Technology, and the Meaning
of Being Human."
As a participant in the early
development of the English Department Knowledge
Base, Melissa was responsible for the overall structure
and maintenance of the site and contributed to the
development of content in the course materials section
of the knowledge base. She was also responsible
for documentation of the site and project.
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