Avery Wiscomb
Assistant Professor Of English at Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAvery Wiscomb is an Assistant Professor of Modernist Studies and Digital Humanities at Virginia Tech with nine years of experience at the intersection of twentieth-century science, literature, and computational methods. Their research examines intellectual histories of science and technology and the literary entanglements with computer science, bringing cultural analytics to questions of modernism and the book. They teach graduate and undergraduate courses ranging from digital humanities and humanities computing to science fiction and interpretive methods, blending technical literacy with close reading. Avery’s background includes a PhD and multiple fellowships in humanities analytics from Carnegie Mellon, and prior industry work in narrative-driven software at a storytelling startup, reflecting a rare combination of literary scholarship and practical computational experience.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Arts - MA, Liberal Arts, Master of Arts - MA, Liberal Arts at St. John's CollegeBachelor of Arts - BA, Liberal Arts, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Liberal Arts at The Evergreen State CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Literary and Cultural Studies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University
Greek, Latin, French
Github Skills (4)
blockchain7
finance7
cryptocurrency7
isolation2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
MARXdown/MARXdown.github.io
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Inital build of digital edition of Capital Volume 1 using Ed. and hypothes.is
Contributions:62 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
blockchainvolumedigital-editioncryptocurrencyfinance
sgotzler/praxis-session
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:59 commits, 59 pushes in 7 days
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