bio:

My name is Josef Nguyen, and I am a first-year English Ph.D. student at U.C. Davis.

I am a graduate of the University of the Pacific, in Stockton, California. I double majored in Computer Science and English and received both my B.S. and B.A., respectively, in 2007. I then attended U.C. Irvine, receiving an M.S. in Arts Computation Engineering (A.C.E.) in 2009.

I enjoy working out, baking cakes, playing video games, shopping, making crafts, and reading. I am also an avid croquet player.

My main academic interests include but are not limited to:

• science and technology studies
• ecocriticism
• posthumanism
• fictions of scientific practice, experimentation, and controversy
• contemporary American literature and film
• history and philosophy of science
• accidents, disasters, and crises
• cybernetics and systems theory
• digital culture: video games, ubiquitous computing, and locative media