Allison M Schifani
Asst. Professor_MLL Digital Humanities
Director of Graduate Studies
Education
| 2013 | Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 2008 | Comparative Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 2003 | B.A. English and Comparative Literary Studies, Occidental College |
Honors & Acknowledgements
FELLOWSHIPS
ULink Interdisciplinary Grant, “What Drives Virality: Context, Network Structure or Context?” (Partial Support offered for 2019)
Provost Research Award, University of Miami, 2017/18
Camp Kesem Miami Magic Teacher Award, Miami 2017
Conferences & Events
| 2015 | Documentation, Information, and Alternative Infrastructures: The Buenos Aires Libre Autonomous Network | Visible Evidence XXII, Toronto |
| 2015 | Uncommon Architectures in the Rust Belt: Steel, Space and Contemporary Capital | Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, Riverside CA |
| 2015 | Speculative Urbanism: Uncertain Architectures in the Rust Belt | Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, Cleveland |
| 2014 | Digital Humanities: Theories, Practices, Publics | Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, CWRU, Cleveland |
| 2014 | Speculative Urbanism: Imagining Rustbelt Futures | Unruly Engagements: On the Social Turn in Contemporary Art and Design, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland |
| 2014 | Scaling Social Movements | Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Concordia University, Montreal |
| 2014 | Urban Speculation/Speculative Urbanism | Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics International Conference, Concordia University, Montreal |
| 2013 | Urban Laboratory Life: Machine Project and the Anti-Capsular Urban Science | American Anthropological Association, Chicago |
| 2013 | Emerging Methodologies: An Introduction to the Digital Humanities | Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, CWRU, Cleveland |
Cultural Studies | Digital Humanities | Environmental Humanities | Immigration/Globalization/Transnationalism/Diasporas | Literary/Critical Theory | Media, Film and Visual Studies | Science and Technology Studies | Social Movements and Networks and 20th-21st Century
Research Projects
Additional Projects
Publications
Co-authored with Professor Katherine Kelp-Stebbins "The Medium is the Masses: Embodied Amplification, Urban Occupation" 10 (Media Fields. August, 2015).
Allison Schifani "Alternative Sprawls, Junkcities: Buenos Aires Libre and Horizontal Urban Epistemologies" 1.3 ( Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. September, 2014).
Co- translation with Zeke Sikelianos (New York, New York, United States. Fordham University Press. 2012).
Allison Schifani Co-authored with Jeffrey Kruth Plat Buenos Aires Libre: Risk, Resistance, and Tactical Sharing184-1907 (September, 2018).
Allison Schifani The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature o Flat Logics, Deep Critique: Temporalities, Aesthetics and Ecologies in Electronic Literature on the Web255-270 (New York, Bloomsbury Press. 2017).
