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EDUCATION

Ph.D., Women’s Studies, May 2017  | University of Maryland, College Park, MD
M.A., American Studies, April 2012 | University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
B.A., English, May 2010 | University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala.

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)

PUBLICATIONS

Book

The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (Queer / Trans / Digital series). NYU Press: 2023.

Reviewed in: Choice; Convergence; Cultural Sociology; Film Quarterly; Information, Communication, & Society; Internet Histories; Yes! Magazine.

Journal Articles

Miller, Tristan, 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 7.1 (2023): 76-98.

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 Enke. Women’s Studies in Communication 37, no. 1 (2014): 111-113.

Works In Progress

Dame-Griff, Avery. Under Contract. “The Twenty-First Century Remix (2000s-2020s).” In The Routledge History of Queer America (2^nd Edition), edited by Don Romesburg. Routledge.

Dame-Griff, Avery. “‘This forum has instantly become very important to me:’ Identity Formation in Early Trans Mailing Lists.” In-progress, to be submitted to Convergence.

Extension Publications

• “Did You Yahoo?: Exploring the Ethical Challenges of Preserving Dormant Platforms.” Full Stack Feminism. September 2023.
• “Digital Queers: How Computers Transformed LGBTQ Life in the United States.” Process: a blog of American history.
• “Love, Acceptance, and Screeching Modems.” Spark Magazine. Summer 2023.
• “Forum: Imagining a Better Internet.” Issues in Science and Technology. Fall 2022.
• “How the bulletin board systems, email lists and Geocities pages of the early internet created a place for trans youth to find one another and explore coming out.” The Conversation (later syndicated in Slate.) May 25, 2021.
• Transgender Usenet Research Guide. Digital Transgender Archive. November 2017.
• “Tracing Terminology: Researching Early Use of “Cisgender.” AHA Today. May 22, 2017.
• “Being Trans Online: Visibility and Imposition,” The Toast. April 7, 2014.

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, data visualizations, and primary documents. Responsible for website development, content management, metadata protocols, and planning new collections.

• Reviewed in Reviews in Digital Humanities Vol. 5, No. 7.
• Featured in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, The Public Historian,Museum International, and First Monday.

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)
• Open Award for Teaching Excellence and Scholarship, Gonzaga University (2024)
• 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

• “The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet,” University of Toronto, February 5, 2025.
• “The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet,” University of Virginia, October 4, 2024.
• “The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet,” Northern Illinois University, September 30, 2024.
• “Tracing the Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet,” DePaul University, May 22, 2024.
• “The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet,” Northwestern University, May 1, 2024.
• Panelist, Trans Disruptions: The Future of Change, Columbia University, April 3-5, 2024.
• “Tracing the Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet,” Simon Fraser University, March 25, 2024.
• “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.
• “Tracing the Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet,” University of Maryland, College Park, February 21, 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.

ACADEMIC PANELS AND PRESENTATIONS

• “Studying the “tired old flame queens”: Flame wars within Usenet archives,” Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory Conference, April 2025
• “Responsibility, Support, Solidarity: Grounding Digital Social Engagement in an Age of Crisis and Conscience” (Roundtable), American Studies Association Conference, November 2024
• “Connecting Our Community: The Role of LGBTQ Nonprofits in the Early Internet Era,” Queer History Conference, June 2024
• “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

CLASSES TAUGHT

Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA

• Ethics of Advanced Computing (Module Designed: Data Processing; Spring 2025)
• Gender and Pop Culture (Fall 2024 [ 2 sections])
• Introduction to WGST (Fall 2024 [2 sections])
• Race, Reproduction, and the Family (Spring 2024)
• Transgender Social Movements (Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2020)
• Gender & Sexuality in Gaming [First Year Seminar] (Spring 2024 [2 sections], Fall 2023 [2 sections], Spring 2023, Fall 2022 [2 sections])
• Feminist Media Activism (Fall 2023)
• Gender, Difference, & Power (Fall 2023, Fall 2022 [2 sections], Spring 2020)
• Introduction to LGBTQ Studies (Spring 2023 [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 [First Year Seminar] (Fall 2020)

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

• Introduction to Omeka (series of 4 workshops developed in collaboration with Foley Library), Gonzaga University (2024)
• Wikipedia Editing Workshop: Integrating Wikipedia Assignments into Your Classroom, Gonzaga University (2023)
• 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)

MEDIA COVERAGE AND INTERVIEWS

• Interviewed for Autostraddle, “Avery Dame-Griff Is Archiving the Trans Internet.” (December 12, 2023)
• Interviewed for the History is Gay podcast, “Dialing in to Gender: Tracing Trans Internet History with Avery Dame-Griff.” (December 04, 2023)
• Interviewed for the New Books Network, “The Two Revolutions.” (September 17, 2023)
• Interviewed by KUOW (Seattle Public Radio) for Soundside, “How the early internet defined what it meant to be ‘transgender’.” (August 23, 2023)
  Interviewed in The Baffler for “Many Revolutions: Archiving the trans internet with Avery Dame-Griff.” (July 2023).
• Interviewed by Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research for their Tech Talks series (March 17, 2023).
• Interviewed for Choice360’s Ask An Archivist on the Queer Digital History Project (June 23, 2022)
• Interviewed for Avast’s blog on the history of transgender Bulletin Board Systems (June 16, 2022)
• Interviewed for Smithsonian Magazine on the history and impact of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) (May 16, 2022)
• Interviewed for French language newsletter Arobase on the early history of queer life online (September 9, 2021)
• Interviewed for Channel Q’s Let’s Go There on the early history of trans youth online (May 26, 2021).
• Work featured in “The Survival Network: How a 1980s AIDS Support Group Changed The Internet Forever.” OneZero (December 14, 2020).
• Interviewed for “An Oral History of the Early Trans Internet.” Gizmodo (July 9, 2019).

PROFESSIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

• Novice to Know-How: Email Preservation, Digital Preservation Coalition (In Progress, Expected Completion in 2025)
• Citizen Project Management Certificate, Gonzaga University (2024)
• Novice to Know-How: Digital Preservation for Beginners, Digital Preservation Coalition (2023)
• Retro Machines & Media, Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2020, Victoria, BC (Cancelled due to CoVid-19)
• Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for Black Digital Humanities, Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT) 2019, Indianapolis, IN
• Associate Certification, University Teaching and Learning Program at the Teaching and Learning Transformation Center (TLTC), University of Maryland, College Park
• Certificate of Completion, Inclusion & Diversity Workshop Series, Teaching and Learning Transformation Center (TLTC), University of Maryland, College Park

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Field of Study

• Reviewer, Social Media + Society (2024, 2021, 2019)
• Reviewer, Internet Histories (2024, 2021)
• External Reviewer, Data Fluencies Dissertation Research Grant, Social Science Research Council (2024)
• External Grant Reviewer, Social Science and Humanities Research Council (2024)
• Reviewer, ACM Computer Human Interaction (CHI) Conference (2023)
• Reviewer, Feminist Media Histories (2023, 2022)
• Reviewer, Big Data & Society (2021)
• Reviewer, Journal of Appalachian Studies (2021)
• 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, 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)
• Panelist, LGBTQ+ Hot Topics: Ask the Campus Experts Panel, Gonzaga University (2023)
• Panelist, Leadership for Male-Identifying Students, Payne Center for Leadership Development, Gonzaga University (2022)
• 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

• Jurist, Otherwise Award (2024)
• Speaker, Kentucky Health Justice Network Trans Health Advocacy Program (2024)
• Speaker, Trans Day of Visibility, Shine Employee Resource Group, Turnberry Solutions (2024)
• External Grant Reviewer, Humanities Washington (2023)
• Panelist, Hot Topics: Judaism and Trans Identity, Temple Beth Shalom, Spokane, WA (2023)
• 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)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE and SKILLS

Areas of Expertise:

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

Programming Languages and Software:

Python, HTML5/CSS, Markdown, Git, Adobe Creative Suite, Omeka, Jekyll, Tableau, WordPress, Audacity, Figma

MEMBERSHIPS

Association of Internet Researchers, National Women’s Studies Association, American Studies Association, Society for the History of Technology, Fembot Collective, Phi Beta Kappa