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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT

Current:
Lecturer, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA

2021-2022:
Assistant Professor (Career Track), Digital Technology and Culture, Washington State University (Pullman, WA)

2020-2021: Visiting Assistant Professor, Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies, Appalachian State University (Boone, NC)

2020: Lecturer, Communication Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies, Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA)

2017-2019: Fixed-Term Assistant Professor of Mass Communication and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), Winona State University (Winona, MN)

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Women’s Studies, May 2017  | University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Dissertation Title:  “Talk Amongst Yourselves: ‘Community’ in Transgender Counterpublic Discourse Online, 1990-2014”
Committee: Jason Farman (co-chair), Katie King (co-chair and advisor), Alexis Lothian, Kristy Maddux, and Kari Kraus
Areas of Research: New Media, Feminist Science and Technology Studies, Gender Studies, Digital Humanities

M.A., American Studies, April 2012 | University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Thesis: “’I’m your hero? Like me?’: The Category of “Expert” in the Trans Male Vlog”
Advisor: Ben Chappell

B.A., English, May 2010 | University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Minors: Journalism, Asian Studies
Honors: Magna Cum Laude

PUBLICATIONS

Book

The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (Queer / Trans / Digital series). NYU Press: 2023. (Reviewed in: Cultural Sociology, Internet Histories)

Journal Articles

Tristan Miller, Camille Paloque-Bergès, and Avery Dame-Griff. “Remembering Netizens: an interview with Ronda Hauben, co-author of Netizens: on the history and impact of Usenet and the Internet (1997),” Internet Histories (2022). DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2022.2123120.

Haimson, Oliver, Avery Dame-Griff, Elias Capello, and Zahari Richter. “Tumblr was a Trans Technology: The Meaning, Importance, History, and Future of Trans Technologies.” Feminist Media Studies 21:3 (2019): 345-361.

Dame-Griff, Avery. “Herding the ‘Performing Elephants:’ Using Computational Methods to Study Usenet.” Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society. Forthcoming.

Dame, Avery. “Mapping the Territory: Archiving the Trans Website in an Age of Search.” Transgender Studies Quarterly 3, no. 3-4 (2016): 628-636.

Dame, Avery. “Making a Name for Yourself: Tagging as Transgender Ontological Practice on Tumblr.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 33, no. 1 (2016): 23–37. | Reprinted in Queer Technologies: Affordances, Affect, Ambivalence. Edited by Katherine Sender and Adrienne Shaw. London: Routledge, 2017.

Dame, Avery. “’I’m your hero? Like me?’: The Category of “Expert” in the Trans Male Vlog,” Journal of Language and Sexuality 2, no. 1 (2013): 40-69.

Encyclopedia Entries and Book Chapters

Dame-Griff, Avery. 2021. “The Mechanics of Identity Work among Gender/Sexual Minorities on Tumblr, 2010s.” In A Tumblr Book, edited by Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, and Indira Neill Hoch. University of Michigan Press.

Dame-Griff, Avery. 2020. “Trans Cultures Online.” In The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication, edited by Karen Ross and Marco Scarcelli. John Wiley.

Dame-Griff, Avery. 2019. “Algorithms are a Feminist Issue.” In Feminist and Queer Theories: A Transnational Reader, edited by L. Ayu Saraswati and Barbara Shaw. Oxford University Press.

Book Reviews

Dame-Griff, Avery. Review of Representing Trans: Linguistic, Legal and Everyday Perspectives, edited by Evan Hazenberg and Miriam Meyerhoff. Language in Society 47, no. 4 (2018): 647-648.

Review of Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies, edited by Anne EnkeWomen’s Studies in Communication 37, no. 1 (2014): 111-113.

Extension Publications

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Archival Internet Video Index (2023-Ongoing)
Ongoing project indexing video footage of pre-Internet and early Internet communication platforms. Responsible for identifying, categorizing, and indexing content.

Queer Digital History Project (2017-Ongoing)
Ongoing project tracking early LGBTQ digital communication and activity online, including collections of early communities, networks, and primary documents. Responsible for website development, content collection, and metadata protocols.

Transgender Usenet Archive Project, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) (2016-2017)
Using Bookworm API, planned, designed, and built archive of approximately 400,000 messages from five major transgender-themed Usenet newsgroups. Responsible for developing data and archive protocols, defining metadata standards, writing scripts indexing the original collections, and developing promotional materials.

VisualEditor Course Testing Initiative, Wikipedia Education Foundation (Spring 2015)
Participated in pilot project testing VisualEditor tool in college courses teaching with Wikipedia. Planned, developed, and administered student survey collecting feedback on the process, which was later used by VisualEditor design team.

AWARDS AND HONORS

  • Speaker, Humanities Washington Speakers’ Bureau (2024-2025)
  • Public Humanities Fellow ($5,000), Humanities Washington (2022)
  • Digital Humanities Fellow, Digital Humanities Initiative, Gonzaga University (2020)
  • Learning and Community Engagement (LaCE) Curriculum Grant ($300), Winona State University (2018)
  • Emerging Open Scholarship Award, Honorable Mention, Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (2018)
  • William P. Heidrich Research Fellowship, University of Michigan (2018)
  • Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) Winnemore Digital Humanities Dissertation Fellow, University of Maryland, College Park (2016-2017)
  • Flagship Fellow, University of Maryland, College Park (2012-2016)
  • CHASA Graduate Student Essay award (with co-author E. Cassandra Griff) (2013)
    • Title: “‘Once I’m done…’ ‘Done with what?’: Language, Temporality, and Narratives of Self.”
  • HASTAC Scholar, University of Kansas (2012)
  • Boomer Futures Fellow, University of Kansas (2011-2012)

INVITED TALKS

“When It Was Ours: A Queer and Trans Counterhistory of the Internet,” Keynote Speaker for 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium, Lewis & Clark College. March 6, 2024.

Ethical Digital Archiving of Sexual Minority Narratives Colloquium (Invited Speaker), B’AI Global Forum, University of Tokyo, February 2024.

“The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet,” Michigan Interactive and Social Computing Research Group, University of Michigan. November 13, 2023.

“The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet Book Talk,” The Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, + Tech Series @ McGill University. November 2, 2023.

“Defining Who We Are Not: Transgender Usenet and the Rise of Cisgender,” Berkeley Film and Media Seminar series, University of California, Berkeley. September 21, 2023.

Panelist, “Applied Trans Studies x Digital Studies,” Applied Trans Technology Studies Symposium. Hosted by the Center for Applied Transgender Studies. January 21, 2022.

Panelist, “Queer and Trans Life Online.” Winona State University. Winona, MN. March 20, 2019.

“Dialing into the Revolution: Platforms, Digital Communication, and Creating the Modern Transgender Movement.” Rochester Institute of Technology. Rochester, NY. March 4, 2019.

The New Internet Commons: Queercore, Cyberpunk and Networked Communities.” NAVEL. Los Angeles, CA. December 7, 2018.

Spotlighting Hidden Histories: Archiving Transgender Usenet, 1994-2013,” Digital Dialogues series, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). March 28, 2017.

MEDIA COVERAGE AND INTERVIEWS

CLASSES TAUGHT

Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA
Transgender Social Movements (Spring 2023, Spring 2020)
Introduction to LGBTQ Studies (Spring 2023 [2 sections])
Gender & Sexuality in Gaming (Spring 2023 [First Year Seminar], Fall 2022 [First Year Seminar, 2 sections])
Gender, Difference, & Power (Fall 2022 [2 sections], Spring 2020)
Gender & Sexuality in Gaming (Fall 2022 [First Year Seminar, 2 sections])
Communication and Speech (Spring 2020 [2 sections], Fall 2019 [2 sections])

Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Introduction to Digital Technology & Culture (Spring 2022, Fall 2021 [2 sections])
Introduction to Data Visualization (Spring 2022, Fall 2021)
Video Games Theories and History (Spring 2022, Fall 2021)

Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Queer Bodies (Spring 2021)
Transgender Social Movements (Spring 2021)
Sex, Gender, and Power (Spring 2021, Fall 2020 [2 sections])
Feminist Theories (Fall 2020)
Technologies of Feminist Activism (Fall 2020 [First Year Seminar])

Winona State University, Winona, MN
Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Spring 2019, Fall 2018)
Introduction to LGBTQ Studies (Spring 2019)
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Field Experience (Fall 2018)
Photography Appreciation (Spring 2018)
Print and Web Production (Spring 2018, Fall 2017)
Video and Audio Production (Spring 2018, Fall 2017)
Mass Communication Computer Applications (Spring 2018, Fall 2017)
Photo: The Technical Art (Fall 2017)

University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies (Summer 2016 [Online-Only], Spring 2016)
Women, Art and Culture (Fall 2013 [TA], Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015)
Seminar in Digital Cultures and Creativity; Media, Culture, and Identity (Fall 2015
[Guest Teacher, 2 sessions])
Women’s Bodies in Contention (Spring 2014 [TA])

ADVISING, MENTORING, AND INTERNSHIPS

Committees

Matt Cottrell, Undergraduate Thesis (Anthropology), Appalachian State University (Spring 2022)

Internships

Queer Digital History Project Practicum Supervisor, University of Michigan (Fall 2023)

Queer Digital History Project MLIS Field Study Supervisor, University of Maryland, College Park (Spring 2022)

Queer Digital History Project Intern, funded through AmeriCorps and Washington Campus Compact, Washington State University (Spring 2022)

WORKSHOPS LED

DH Projects with Omeka (series of 4 workshops), Digital Humanities Initiative, Gonzaga University (2020)

Academic Conferences 101, Ethnic Studies Seminar 2: Social Justice Research, Winona State University (2019)

Archival Research Workshop, Ethnic Studies: History, Theory, and Methods, Winona State University (2018)

Introduction to Game Design, Design Cultures & Creativity, University of Maryland, College Park (2015)

TEACHING INTERESTS

LGBTQ Studies, Media Studies, Digital Humanities, Science and Technology Studies, Gender and Visual Culture, Technologies of Gender, Transgender Studies

ACADEMIC PANELS AND PRESENTATIONS

“Kooks of Usenet Past: Hauntings in the Born-Digital Archive,” Born Digital Cultural Heritage, November 2023

“‘This forum has instantly become very important to me:’ Solidarity in Early Trans Mailing Lists,” American Studies Association Conference, November 2023

“Researching gender in the history of the Internet and the Web” (Roundtable), Society for the History of Technology, October 2023

“‘Who moderates a moderator?:’ FidoNet, Content Moderation, and Shared Governance,” Society for the History of Technology Conference, October 2023

“What’s in a Name?: Information Seeking Practices, Terminology, And The ‘Transgender’ Community,” Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Conference, October 2023

“A Great Balancing Act: Doing Independent DH as Contingent Faculty,” American Studies Association Annual Conference, November 2021

“Fighting For ‘A Home of Our Own:’ The Transgender Community Forum in Web History.” RESAW (Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials) Conference, June 2021

“Did You Yahoo?: Preserving Digital Transgender History.” Moving Trans History Forward, University of Victoria, March 2021

“A Great Balancing Act: Doing Independent DH as Contingent Faculty,” American Studies Association Annual Conference, November 2020 (Cancelled due to CoVid-19)

“Panic and Preservation: On the Ethical Implications of Preserving Digital Queer History,” DHSI 2020 Conference and Colloquium, June 2020

“Did You Yahoo?: Preserving Digital Transgender History.” Moving Trans History Forward, University of Victoria, April 2020 (Cancelled due to CoVid-19)

“Out of the Cybercloset, Into the Cyberstreets: Creating Transgender Space on Pre-Web Platforms.” Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, April 2019

“Dialing Into the Revolution: Utopian Rhetoric and Exclusionary Reality in Early Transgender Online Forums,” National Women Studies Association 2018 Conference, November 2018

“‘We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We Have E-Mail:’ Reconstructing Early LGBTQ History Online,” Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual 2018 Conference, October 2018

“The Two Revolutions: Understanding the Role of Computer Bulletin Board Systems in Early Transgender Organizing,” Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, March 2018

“Politics and ‘Petty Useless Bickering:’ Transgender Usenet and the Emergence of “Cisgender,” Society for Textual Scholarship 2017 International Interdisciplinary Conference, June 2017

“‘Join the Cybergender Movement!’: The Internet in Transgender Social Movement Discourse, 1990-­1999,” Critiquing Culture: The Cultural Studies Graduate Conference, October 2016

“A Space for Us: Transgender Community, Platform Affordances, and User Governance,” Trans*studies: an International Transdisciplinary Conference on Gender, Embodiment, and Sexuality, September 2016.

“‘Herding the ‘Performing Elephants with Diarrhea’: Community, Platform Affordances, and User Governance on Usenet and Tumblr,” Cultural Studies Association, June 2016

“TW: Trigger Warnings, Trans Counterpublics, and the Production of Social Norms Online,” National Women Studies Association 2015 Conference, November 2015

“Does It Get Better?: Narratives of Transgender Misery Online,” American Studies Association 2015 Conference, October 2015

“‘Please reblog’: Trans Users’ Intimacy-Building Practices on Tumblr,” Queer Intimacies, Seventh Annual DC Queer Studies Symposium, April 2014

“Anatomy of the Tag: Understanding the Role of the tag on in organizing trans communities on Tumblr,” National Women Studies Association 2013 Conference, November 2013

“‘Once I’m done…’ ‘Done with what?’: Language, Temporality, and Narratives of Self,” Chesapeake American Studies Association 2013 Conference, March 2013

“For Your Viewing Pleasure: The Role of the Audience in the Transition Vlog,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2012 Conference, March 2012

PROFESSIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Field of Study

  • Reviewer, Feminist Media Histories (2022)
  • Reviewer, Big Data & Society (2021)
  • Reviewer, Journal of Appalachian Studies (2021)
  • Reviewer, Internet Histories (2021)
  • Reviewer, Social Media + Society (2021, 2019)
  • Reviewer, Transgender Studies Quarterly (2021)
  • Reviewer, First Monday (2020)
  • Reviewer, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing Conference (2020)
  • Reviewer, Journal of Language and Discrimination (2019)
  • Advisory Board Member, Scrolling Beyond Binaries Project (2018-2019)
  • Reviewer, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (2019)
  • Reviewer, Social Media + Society (2019)
  • Reviewer, Culture, Health and Sexuality (2018)
  • Reviewer, Transformative Works and Cultures (2016)
  • Reviewer, Critical Studies in Media Communication (2015)
  • Abstract Reviewer, Association of Internet Researchers, IR 16 (2015)
  • Reviewer, Journal of Language and Sexuality (2013)

University and Departmental

  • Member, Women’s and Gender Studies Advisory Committee, Gonzaga University (2022-2024)
  • Member, Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies Curriculum Committee, Appalachian State University (2020-2021)
  • Panelist, Sex: In the Dark, Wellness and Prevention Services, Appalachian State University (2020)
  • Panelist, Healthy Masculinity Panel, RE Initiative, Winona State University (2019)
  • Member, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Advisory Committee, Winona State University (2018-2019)
  • Expert Reviewer, Transgender Inclusion Policy (Department of Athletics), Winona State University (2018)
  • Judge, Winona State University 48-Hour Video Dash, Winona State University (2017)
  • Committee Member, Women’s Studies Chair Search Committee, University of Maryland, College Park (2015-2016)
  • Poster Design and Planning, #TransformDH Conference and THATCamp, University of Maryland, College Park (2015)
  • Selection Committee, Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Award and DGS/CGS Awards (2014)
  • M.A. Cohort Representative to Department Executive Committee (2011-2012)
  • KU ASAGS Representative to Mid-America American Studies Association (2010-2012)

Consulting and Community Involvement

  • Transgender Services Consultant, Gonzaga University Housing & Residence Life (2021)
  • Instructor (Introduction to WGSS), H.O.P.E. Academy, Winona State University (2018)
  • Research Consultant, TransGeek Movie (2016)
  • Transgender Services Consultant, Montgomery County (MD) Homeless Services (2014)
  • Manuscript consultant, Transgender Representation and Technology. Karen Healey, When We Wake (New York: Little Brown, 2013). (2011)

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

  • Assistant Editor, AMSJ: American Studies Journal (2010-2012)
  • Editor, footnotes and reference checking. Hilary Iris Lowe, Literary Destinations: Mark Twain’s Houses and Literary Tourism (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2012). (2011)

MEDIA PRODUCTION

Areas of Expertise:

Digital Humanities Project Management, Video and Sound Editing, Graphic Design, Instructional Materials Design

Programming Languages and Software:
Python, HTML/CSS, Adobe Creative Suite, Tableau, Audacity

Projects:

  • Logo and Promotional Materials Design, American Democracy Project (ADP), Winona State University (2018)
  • Logo and Promotional Materials Design, Ethnic Studies Program, Winona State University (2017-2018)
  • Poster Design, “Semana De La Latina,” U.S. Latina/o Studies program, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (Spring 2016)
  • Poster and Promotional Materials Design, #TransformDH conference, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (Fall 2015)
  • Poster and Promotional Materials Design, “Semana De La Latina,” U.S. Latina/o Studies program, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (Spring 2014)
  • Instructional Video Design and Development, University of Kansas Library Instructional Services, Lawrence, KS (2011-2012)
  • Video Editing, Anniston Star, Anniston, AL (2007)

MEMBERSHIPS

National Women’s Studies Association, American Studies Association, Fembot Collective, Association of Internet Researchers, Phi Beta Kappa