bio:

My name is Josef Nguyen, and I am currently attending U.C. Irvine toward an M.S. in Arts Computation Engineering (A.C.E.).

I will begin studying at U.C. Davis toward a Ph.D. in English come fall.

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 May 2007.

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:

• ecological criticism
• natural and unnatural disasters; environmental crisis
• science and technology studies
• posthumanism
• animal studies
• contemporary American literature and film
• the construction of cities and urban space
• digital media, ubiquitous computing, and locative media
• video games: serious and persuasive
• histories of biology, geology, and paleontology
• the supernatural, the unnatural, and the fantastic