Michele White

Dr. Michele White

Department of Communication

219 Newcomb Hall

Tulane University

New Orleans, LA  70118

mwhite [at] michelewhite [dot] org

michelewhite.org

 EDUCATION      

1992 - 1999, The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY.

PhD Program in Art History- Successfully defended dissertation on The Virtual Museum in May 1999.

- Awarded Film Studies Certificate.              

1991 - 1993, Hunter College, New York, NY.

MFA in Combined Media              

1980 - 1984, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.

BFA in Painting              

1981 - 1984, Brown University, Providence, RI.

- Colloquium program with RISD.              

 EMPLOYMENT

Summer 2010 - , Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

- Designing and teaching courses in Internet and new media studies, gender and science

fiction, media studies, and visual culture.

Fall 2005 - Summer 2010, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Tulane University, New

Orleans, LA.

 

Spring 2005, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History and Women's

Studies Program, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

- Designed and taught courses in feminism and visual culture, gender and queer theory,

and new media studies.

2002 - Dec. 2004, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Art Department, Wellesley College,

Wellesley, MA.

- Designed and taught Internet and new media studies, television and film studies, art

history and visual culture, gender and queer theory, and science fiction and technology

literature courses. Consulted with the department on their multimedia initiative.               

2001 - 2002, Assistant Professor, Department of Telecommunications, Bowling Green State

University, Bowling Green, OH.

- Designed and implemented graduate and undergraduate emerging media curriculum.

2000 - 2001, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow and Member, School of Social

Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.

- Participated in session on new media.               

1999 - 2000, Visiting Lecturer, Art History and Visual Culture Department, University of

California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA.

- Designed and taught Internet and new media studies, television and film studies, and art

history and visual culture courses.                

1997 - 1998, Visiting Professor, Visual and Media Arts Department, Emerson College,

Boston, MA.

- Designed and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Internet and new media

studies, television and film studies, visual culture, and science studies.               

1993 - 1996, New Technologies Workshop Leader and Visual Resources Preparator, Visual

Resource Collection, The Graduate Center, New York, NY.       

1992 - 1993, Assistant Curator, Fairfield Porter Exhibition, Parrish Art Museum,

Southampton, NY.               

1988 - 1991, Art Teacher, Hospital Audiences, New York, NY.               

1989, Artist in Residence, Young Audiences, New York, NY.               

1988, Artist in Residence, New York Foundation for the Arts, Baldwinsville, NY.               

1987 - 1988, Art Teacher, P.S. 31, Bronx, NY.               

SINGLE-AUTHORED BOOKS    

2012, Buy It Now: Lessons from eBay. Durham: Duke University Press.

2006, The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship. Cambridge, MA: MIT

Press.               

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2012,  "The Dirt on 'Trash the Dress' Resistance: Photographers, Brides, and the Mess of Post-wedding

Imaging Sessions," Critical Studies in Media Communication 29, 2, Taylor & Francis: 113-131. 

2011, "Dirty Brides and Internet Settings: The Affective Pleasures and Troubles with Trash the Dress

Photography Sessions," South Atlantic Quarterly, Duke University Press: 645-672.

2011, "Engaged with eBay: How Heterosexual Unions and Traditional Gender Roles Are Connected to the

Interface," Feminist Media Studies 11, 3 (Sept. 2011), Taylor & Francis: 303-319.

2010, "Babies Who Touch You: Reborn Doll Artists, and the Emotive Display of Bodies on eBay," Political

Emotions, ed. Janet Staiger, Ann Cvetkovich, and Ann Reynolds. London: Routledge Press: 66-89.

2010, "Listing eBay Masculinity: Erotic Exchanges and Regulation in 'Gay' and 'Gay Interest' Underwear and

Swimwear Auctions," Journal of Gender Studies 19, 1, Taylor & Francis: 43-58.

 2010, "What a Mess: eBay’s Narratives about Personalization, Heterosexuality, and Disordered Homes,"

Journal of Consumer Culture 10, 1 ed. David Beer and Roger Burrows, Sage Publications: 80-104.   

 2009, "Networked Bodies and Extended Corporealities: Theorizing the Relationship between the Body,

Embodiment, and Contemporary New Media," Feminist Studies 35, 3 (Fall): 603-624.

 2009, "Spectatorship," Sage Encyclopedia of Communication Theory, ed. Karen Foss and Stephen W.

Littlejohn. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

2008, "The Hand Blocks the Screen: A Consideration of the Ways the Interface is Raced," Electronic

Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface. Proceedings of the First International HASTAC Conference, Duke

University, Durham, NC: 117-128.

 2007, "Black Is, Black Paint: Art Practices and the Erasure of Afrogeeks in Internet Settings," In Afrogeeks:

Beyond the Digital Divide, ed. Anna Everett and Amber J. Wallace. Santa Barbara: The Center for Black

Studies Research: 165-181.

2006, "Television and Internet Differences by Design: Rendering, Liveness, Presence, and

Lived Space," Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies

12, 3 (August), Sage Publications.

2006, "Where Do You Want to Sit Today: Computer Programmers' Static Bodies and Disability,"

Information, Communication and Society 9, 3, ed. Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell, (June)

Routledge Press. 

2006, "My Queer eBay: 'Gay Interest' Photographs and the Visual Culture of Buying,"

Everyday eBay, ed. Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, and Nathan Epley. London: Routledge Press.

2004, "The Public, the Private, and the Invisible: Questions for the Architects of the Nano

Home of the Future," HorizonZero 14, 2 (March/April), The Banff Centre.       

2004, "On the Internet, Everybody Worries that You're a Dog: The Gender Expectations

and Beauty Ideals of Online Personals and Text-Based Chat," Readings in Gender

Communication, eds. Mary Rose Williams and Phil Backlund. Wadsworth.       

2003, "Too Close to See: Men, Women, and Webcams," New Media & Society 5, 1, Sage

Publications.               

2002, "Representations or People," Ethics and Information Technology 4, 3, ed. Charles Ess.

Kluwer Academic Publishers.     

2002, "The Aesthetic of Failure: Net Art Gone Wrong," Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical

Humanities 7, 1, ed. Gary Banham. Routledge Press.               

2002, "Just Playing: Nurturing Nobody," Canadian Children's Literature 107.

2002, "Regulating Research: The Problem of Theorizing Community on LambdaMOO," Ethics

and Information Technology 4, 1, Kluwer Academic Publishers.       

2001, "Visual Pleasure in Textual Places: Gazing in Multi-User Object-Oriented Worlds,"

Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption and Identity, eds. Eileen Green and Alison Adam.

New York, Routledge Press. Also in Information, Communication and Society 2, 4 (1999),

Routledge Press.               

2000, "Where Is the Louvre?" Space and Culture - The Journal 4/5.               

1997, "Cabinet of Curiosity: Finding the Viewer in a Virtual Museum," Convergence: The

International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 3, 3, University of Luton Press. 

1997, "High Culture or No Class: The Antithetical Roles of the Ritual Museum and

Performative Body in MOOs," Proceedings of the Third Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies

Conference, Berkeley Academic Press.               

1993, Fairfield Porter an American Painter, by William C. Agee with Michele White and Malama

Maron-Bersin. Parrish Art Museum.               

SELECTED LECTURES               

2011, "Engaged or Enraged by eBay: Normative Gender, Sexuality, and Organizational Logics," Society for

Social Studies of Science Annual Conference, Cleveland, OH. 

2011, "Touching Feeling Babies: The Emotive Production of Reborn Dolls and Mothers in Internet Settings,"

Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference, Seattle, WA. 

2011, "Fears about Visibility and Expressions of Pleasure: Internet Wedding Forums and Women’s

Discussions of Boudoir Photography Sessions," Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference,

New Orleans, LA. 

2011, "Dirty Brides and Internet Settings: The Affective Pleasures and Troubles with Trash the Dress

Photography Sessions," Digital Desires Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 

2010, "A Sticky eBay Mess: Heterosexuality, Stay-at-home Mothers, and the Work of Dirt, Disorder, and

Desire," Console-ing Passions Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, WA.

2010, "Organizational Logic and Disordered Homes: eBay’s Rendering of Binary Gender, Heterosexuality,

and Disarray," Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA.

2009, "The Promise of Swag: Identities, Brand Communities, and the eBay Live! Convention Culture,"

Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI.

2008, "Working It: eBay’s Community and Members’ Labor," Association of Internet Researchers Annual

Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2008, "My Internet Penis: Male Panics and the Queering of Penis Enlargement and Erectile Dysfunction

Emails,” Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

2008, "Forms and Norms: Gender, Sexuality, and Security in Internet Social Networking Settings,"

Console-ing Passions Conference, University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.

2008, "Designing IT: eBay's ‘You Can Get It on eBay’ Campaign and the Regulation of Gender and

Sexuality," Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

2007, "Using Academic Research Models to Think About Internet Research Ethics," Association of Internet

Researchers Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC.

2007, "The Hand Blocks the Screen: A Consideration of the Ways the Interface Is Raced," First International

HASTAC Conference, Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface, Duke University, Durham, NC. 

2007, "When Genitals Are Cultural and Viewing Goes 'Wrong': Selling 'Lesbian Interest,'

Butch, and Drag Vintage Photography on eBay," Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.

2007, "When the Sitter Is the User: New Media and the Static Body, " New Media Caucus,

College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY.

2006, "With the Internet, Everybody Is a Setter: Male Computer Programmers' Narratives

about Sitting and Pain," Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference,

Vancouver, BC.

2006, "Lost Television," Flow Conference, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX.

2006, "The Cost of Place after Hurricane Katrina: Race and the Production of New Orleans

on the NOLA.com Forums," International Conference on Diversity in Organisations,

Communities, and Nations, Xavier University, New Orleans.

2006, "eBay Boys Will Be Lesbians: Queering Male Buyers of 'Lesbian Interest' Vintage

Photography Listings," Console-ing Passions Conference, University of

Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI.

2006, "Complicating the 'M' in SCMS: Internet and Contemporary Digital Studies," Society

for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC.

2005, "The Visual Culture of the Internet," Department of Communication, Stanford

University, Stanford, CA.

2005, "Between the Hand and the Interface: A Consideration of the Ways GUIs and Web

Designs Render Race," Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.

2005, "Guest Work: The Use of the 'Other' in Producing Rules and Identity Norms in

Internet Settings," Invited Speaker, Command Lines: The Emergence of Governance in

Global Cyberspace, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI.                

2005, "My Hand, My Self: Some Questions about Pointing, Grasping, and Touching 'through'

the Interface," New Media Caucus, College Art Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA.

2004, "My Queer eBay: Imaging, Imagining, and the Visual Culture of Buying,"

InterseXions: Queer Visual Culture at the Crossroads, City University of New York and

Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, New York, NY.

2004, "Space: Above and Moving Beyond," Association of Internet Researchers Annual

Conference, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK.               

2004, "Soft Bodies and the Meaty Behind: A Consideration of Internet Masculinity,"

Console-ing Passions Conference Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

2004, "Black Is, Black Paint: Art Practices and the Erasure of Afrogeeks in Internet

Settings," AfroGEEKS: From Technophobia to Technophilia, Center for Black Studies,

University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.

2004, "Public Privates: Representations of Women Webcam Operators at Home and in the

Office," Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA.

2004, "Another Language of New Media: Rethinking Movement, Interactivity, and the

Screen," College Art Association Annual Conference, Seattle, WA.       

2003, "We're 'In' with the In Crowd: Social Divisions and the Rendering of Internet Space,"

Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada.

2003, "Screen Differences by Design: Rendering Liveness, Presence, and Lived Space

through the Internet, Webcams, and Television," Visual Knowledges Conference, University

of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2003, "Can You Read Me? The Shifting Ownership of Appropriated Texts," Sixth Annual

Ethics and Technology Conference, Boston College, Boston, MA.

2003, "The Screen or the Window: A Critical Proposal for Reading Computer

Representations," Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the

Humanities Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, The University of Georgia,

Athens, GA.                

2003, "The 'Good Box' and the 'Idiot Box:' Television, Computer Monitors, and the Webcam

Frame," Television in Transition, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.      

 2003, "Making It Matter: The Visual Culture of the Computer Screen," Visual Culture

Caucus, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY.               

2002, "Internet Studies and the Humanities," Association of Internet Researchers Annual

Conference, Maastricht, The Netherlands.                

2002, "Between Domestic Technology and Empowered Visibility: Women, Webcams, and

the Public Sphere," Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Las Vegas, NV.       

2002, "Writing Without Space," Cyberculture Working Group, University of Maryland,

College Park, MD.               

2002, "Too Close to See: Men, Women, and Webcams," Popular Culture Cluster, Cultural

Studies, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA.               

2002, "The Photograph Isn't Always Invisible: A Theory of Digital Spectatorship,"

College Art Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.               

2001, "Representations or People: The Dilemmas of Internet Research," Computer Ethics:

Philosophical Enquiries, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.

2000, "Another Time-Based Medium: The Web Museum," College Art Association Annual

Conference, New York, NY.               

2000, "Africam and the Problem of Webcam Nostalgia," African Performance and the

Archive, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA.

1998, "The Technology of the Bathroom in Virtual Settings: Evacuating without Bodies,"

Discipline and Deviance: Genders, Technologies, and Machines Conference, The Literature

Program, Duke University, Durham, NC.

1997, "Weird Science or Queer Science," Forms of Desire: The Seventh Annual Queer 

Graduate Conference, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, New York, NY.               

1996, Respondent, Women's Studies Fall 1996 Speaker Series, "Do Images of Women in

the Media Harm Women," City University of New York, NY.

1996, "Partial Vision," [Y]Our Body is a Battleground: Fleshing Out Power, English

Department, The Graduate Center, New York, NY.       

1995, "Techno-Biology and Televisual Destiny," Comparative Literature Colloquium, Cornell

University, Ithaca, NY.

1994, "The Nuclear Family and the Magical Fallout of Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie,"

Image of Theory Symposium, The Graduate Center, New York, NY.               

1993, "Between Art and Theory," Feminism: The Third Wave, Penn State, University Park,

PA.

1992, "Artheory: Interchanges between Feminist Art and Feminist Theory," Feminist Art

and Art History Conference, Barnard College, New York, NY.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND OTHER ACADEMIC HONORS

2006, COR Summer Research Fellowship, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

2005, Resident, Center for Cultural Studies, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz,

CA.

2005, Pre-conference Organizer, Feminist, Postcolonial, and Queer Theoretical and Political

Approaches to Internet Research, Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference,

Chicago, IL.

2005, Fellow, Cyber-disciplinarity Humanities Institute, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

2003 -, Ethics Working Group, Association of Internet Researchers.        

2003 -, Referee, New Media & Society, Sage Publications.

2003 -, Referee, Information Society.       

2002 and 2003, Educational Research and Development Grants, Wellesley College,

Wellesley, MA.

2001, National Science Foundation Funding for Research Agenda Workshop on Internet

Research Ethics, CEPE Conference, University of Lancaster, UK.

2001, Transnational Cultural Identities Interdisciplinary Research Cluster, Institute for the

Study of Culture and Society, Bowling Green State University, OH.

2001, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, "Literature in Transition:

The Impact of Information Technologies," Directed by N. Katherine Hayles, University of

California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.

2000, International Summer School in History of Science, "New Knowledge and Hi-tech in

the 20th Century," University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

2000, Research Grant, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA.

2000, Travel Grant, College Art Association.

1999 -, Referee, Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies,

University of Luton.

1998, Geoffrey Marshall Dissertation Fellowship, The Graduate School and University

Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY.

1996, Helena Rubinstein Tuition Scholarship.

1993 - 1996, University Fellowship, The Graduate School and University Center of the City

University of New York, New York, NY.

1995, Visiting Artist's Stipend, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela.

1995, Travel Grant, American Airlines.

1991 - 1993, Graduate Student Government Fellowship, Hunter College, New York, NY.