curriculum vitae

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Marc N. Ruppel
mruppel@umd.edu www.marcruppel.net

EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS

Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, 2012 o Director: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum o Title: Visualizing Transmedia Networks: Links, Paths, Peripheries English and American Literature [summa cum laude], 2001 SUNY College at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Secondary Education in English [7-12] [summa cum laude], 1999 SUNY College at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

M.A.

B.A., State of New York Teaching Certificate B.A.

English Literature [cum laude], 1998 SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

o o o o o Transmedia Storytelling and Design Digital Humanities Experiential Learning Video game production and theory Textual studies and electronic editing

PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Articles Designing Reusable Alternate Reality Games. Co-authored with Derek Hansen, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Amanda Visconti and Kari Kraus. The Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Forthcoming 2013. Alternate Reality Games as Platforms for Practicing 21st Century Literacies. Coauthored with Elizabeth Bonsignore, Derek Hansen and Kari Kraus. Sponsored by a National Science Foundation EAGER grant to study Alternate Reality Games. (43 MS pp.). Accepted for publication in The International Journal of Learning and Media. Forthcoming Early Spring 2013. Draft currently published as an HCIL Tech Report at: http://www.cs.umd.edu/localphp/hcil/tech-reports-search.php?number=2011-18 Narrative Convergence, Cross-Sited Productions and the Archival Dilemma. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 2009 Vol.15 No.3: 281- 298. You Are Now, This is Then: Constructing Technological Nostalgia at CES 2007. The Journal of Social Identities. 2009 Vol. 15 No.4: 537-555. Book Chapters "I Heard It Faintly Whispering: Transmedia Integrations of Mobile Technology. Chapter in Mobile Media Narratives. Jason Farman, ed.

Routledge. Forthcoming 2013. (34 MS pp.) Online How to See a World in a Grain of Sand: Transmedia Bibles and Situated Design. In Media Res: Middle-States. Invited submission. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/tne/pieces/how-see-world-grain-sand. 3 August 2012. "(Still) Waiting for the Transmedia Godot". In Media Res: 'Transmedia Now' week. Invited submission, http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2010/07/27/stillwaiting-transmedia-godot. 27 July 2010. Reviews Turn the Page and Hit the Reset Button. Literary & Linguistic Computing. 2008 Vol. 23 No. 2: 231- 239.

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND GANES

Director and Founder, www.THINKtransmedia.org, a National Science Foundation EAGER grant sponsored online hub for researching and implementing transmedia frameworks in education. Launching 2013. Research Team Member, Arcane Gallery of Gadgetry, an NSF-funded modular Alternate Reality Game created for use in service of education. www.arcanegalleryofgadgetry.org. Associate Producer, Robot <3 Stories, an experiential transmedia learning project involving middle school students in LA and Montreal, as well as a global support community. http://www.robotheartstories.com/.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS

Rethinking the Humanities: The Future of Digital and Transmedia Storytelling. Storyworld 2012. Hollywood, CA. October 2012. Building Meaningful Narratives, Meaningful Puzzles, Meaningful Games. Teacher in Boot Camp session at THATCamp Games on Alternate Reality Game design. College Park, MD. January 2012. "Designing Narrative Interaction in Alternate Reality Games." Round table on designing ARGs for education. Meaningful Play 2010. East Lansing, MI. October 2010. Panel Organizer and Chair, "(Re)Framing Transmedial Narratives." Modern Language Association 2009. Philadelphia, PA. December 2009. "To See a Universe in the Spaces In-Between: Migratory Cues and New Narrative Ontologies." Modern Language Association 2009. Philadelphia, PA. December 2009. Change the Channel Then Turn the Page: Cross-Sited Narratives and the New Textual Order. Modern Language Association 2008. San Francisco, CA. December 2008. Narrative Convergence and the New Medial Ecology. Modern Language Association 2008. San Francisco, CA. December 2008. Many Houses, Many Leaves: Cross-sited Media Productions and the Problems of Convergent Narrative Networks. Digital Humanities 2006. Paris, France. July 2006. Transmediation and the Ideal Narrative of Batman Begins. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Vancouver, BC. March 2006.

Triggers and Traces: Cross-Sited Narrative Materiality. Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference, Chicago, IL. November 2005. Digital Manipulations and Historical Resuscitations: Early Electronic Gaming and the New Medial Ecology. Chesapeake American Studies Association Conference, Washington D.C. March 2005. Best Paper Award. A Frontier Was A-Borning: Marilou Awiaktas Abiding Appalachia and the Cosmos of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Southern Women Writers Conference, Berry, GA. October 2003. Finding Awi Usdi: The Submission of Science in Native American Poetry. National Association of Native American Studies, Houston, TX. February 2003

INVITED LECTURES AND ACTIVITIES

Narrative 2.0: Convergent Content, Games and New Literacies. Invited Lecture. African American Literature Association/ English Department, SUNY College at Buffalo. April 2008. CES Swarm: An interdisciplinary, multi-institutional project that sought to investigate alternate group research methodologies and technology at large-scale events such as the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV. Cross-Sited Narrative Dynamics in Games and Film. Invited Lecture, Digital Dialogues, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland College Park. April 2006. Neil Youngs Greendale and New Narrative Models. Invited Lecture, English Department, University of Maryland College Park, March 2006. Visual Form and Narrative in Stanley Kubricks A Clockwork Orange Invited Speaker. Symposium on A Clockwork Orange, SUNY College at Buffalo, November 2002.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
August 2003- May 2011 University of Maryland o CMLT214: Film Form and Culture o ENGL278W: Literature in a Wired World SUNY College at Buffalo o ENG101: Introduction to College Composition o ENG102: Advanced Composition o COM120: Learning Communities

January 2002- May 2003

RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

o o o Director of Communications. NASA xUIP Program, 2004-present. Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Project Designer and web developer, 2004-2006. Chair, Media Studies Working Group. University of Maryland, College Park. 20042006.

AWARDS, ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND GRANTS

o Member of team funded by NSF EAGER grant from the Division of Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS) for the grant titled "Alternate Reality Games in the Service of Education and Design" ($197,752 awarded; #0952567)

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University of Maryland Arts & Humanities Graduate Student Travel Award SUNY College at Buffalo English Department Honorarium2008 Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities Travel Award2005, 2006 Association of Computing in the Humanities Award Paris, France 2006 Best Paper Award for Digital Manipulations and Historical Resuscitations: Early Electronic Gaming and the New Medial Ecology. Chesapeake American Studies Conference, 2005. University of Maryland, Department of English Travel Grant 2003, 2004 Graduate Student of the Year, SUNY College at Buffalo English Department2001 Member of Kappa Delta Pi, an International Honor Society for Education Member of Sigma Tau Delta, an International Honor Society for English Electronic Teaching Portfolio Development project grant from SUNY College at Buffalo, 1999 Selected as member of Erie County, NY Team that competed in ThinkQuest For Tomorrows Teachers, a national project for educational website design, 1999

COMPUTER LANGUAGES
HTML, SGML, XML, CSS, Java, Flash

FOREIGN LANGUAGES
FrenchReading/ Writing proficiency

MEMBERSHIPS
National Communication Association Modern Language Association Association of Computing and Linguistics in the Humanities Society for Literature and Science Society of Cinema and Media Studies American Culture Association Popular Culture Association Poe Studies Association Southern Writers Association National Association of Native American Studies National Association of African American Studies

REFERENCES
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland and Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities MITH McKeldin Library B0131 or 3125 Tawes Hall University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Ph: 301-405-9650 Email: mgk@umd.edu Derek Hansen, Assistant Professor of Information Technology, Brigham Young University 265N CTB Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 Ph: 801-422-7467 Email: dlhansen@byu.edu

Kari Kraus, Assistant Professor, iSchool and English, University of Maryland 3217 Tawes Hall University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Ph: 301-405-3783 Email: kkraus@umd.edu Brian Richardson, Professor of English, University of Maryland 3233 Tawes Hall University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Ph: 301-405-9656 Email: richb@umd.edu

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_______________________________ Marc N. Ruppel

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