bio:

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

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.

My main academic interests include but are not limited to:

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