Tales Of A Punk Rock Nothing

William Patrick Wend (CV) is a lecturer in the liberal arts department at Burlington County College. You can contact him by email.

I Blog About...

J. K. Rowling Second Life Miriam Elizabeth Burstein Toni Magyar Nick Montfort Hypertext Susan Sontag Roland Barthes The Quarterly Conversation The New Yorker Open Source Intertextuality Bookslut Jock O Rama Terry Brooks Blogging Woolf War Prayers Shakespeare Julia Kristeva Audio Books Ubuntu Scott Rettberg Authorship Star Trek Collaboration Piers Anthony Death In The Family Grand Text Auto That Camp In Progress Daniel Green Virginia Woolf Margaret Atwood Scott Esposito Netflix Twitter Jill Walker-Rettberg Vote None Of The Above 04 Firefox MA Thesis Interactive Fiction #thatcamp Shelley Jackson Laurie Halse Anderson Fan Fiction Michel Houellebecq Monmouth English Symposium Homer Implementation Italo Calvino Conversational Reading John Barth Stockton Doctor Who Michel Foucault Kristin Bluemel Education Issues The Guardian Kurt Vonnegut Marjane Satrapi Amanda French Conference Notes Burlington County College George Landow Buffy The Vampire Slayer Gilbert Sorrentino Distributed Narrative Gender Issues Henry Rollins Jorge Luis Borges Meta Electronic Literature Douglas Coupland Miles Davis N. Katherine Hayles

My LibraryLibraryThing

My Tumblr

I wish I was going to see The Mob in Texas next week.

05/18/12

Zotero Library

[Untitled] 5-12-2012
Snapshot 5-6-2012
Corrosion of Conformity: An oral history of 30 years 5-6-2012
Why Do They Hate Us-_ The Real War On Women Is In The Middle East.pdf 5-5-2012
[Untitled] 5-5-2012

Random Posts

On This Date...

2007: The Fall Symposium — [...]
2006: Weekend Reading — [...]
2004: The Crying Of..Evergreen Terrace? — [...]
2004: Just Bulldoze The Planet Already — [...]
2004: “Implementation: CARRY OUT, ACCOMPLISH; especially : to give practical effect to” — [...]
2003: Broken Summers — [...]

Publications

Book Review of Teaching Literature & Language Online. College English Association. January 2012.

Lessons Learned From 15 Years of Hardcore-Punk Shows About Hacking The Academic Conference Contribution to the Hacking The Academy project. June 2011.

“Virtual Macbeth: An Interview With Dr. Angela Thomas.” Word River (Winter 2010)

Shelley Jackson: The Writer Whose Medium Is Reality. Feature article for The Quarterly Conversation. March 2010.

A Threat To The Known: The Unknown Descendents Of Print Culture. MA Thesis, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ. May 2009.

Intro To E-Lit: How Electronic Literature Makes Printed Literature Richer. Feature article for The Quarterly Conversation. March 2009.

War Prayers: Hypertext Novella. 2004.

Courses Taught

Fall 09: Eng101 Composition I
Fall 09: Eng102 Composition II
Spring 10: Eng101 Composition I (MWF)
Spring 10: ENG101 Composition I (TT)
Summer 10 (Session One): ENG101 Composition I
Summer 10 (Session Two): ENG101 Composition I
Fall 10: ENG101 Composition I (Three Sections)
Fall 10: ENGL091 Reading & Writing I
Spring 11: ENG101 Composition I
Spring 11: ENG102 Composition II
Spring 11: ENGL152 English II
Fall 11: LIT207 English Literature I
Fall 11: ENG102 Composition II
Fall 11: ENG101 Composition I

Scholarly/Conference Presentations

Working With Students Who Have Low Technology Skills (September 2011, Chemical Heritage)

Introduction To Classroom Wikis (April 2011, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey)

The Gaping Garments of Electronic Literature (April 2011, Seton Hall University)

Virginia Woolf & The Role of Class & Gender Privilege In 1930s England (March 2011, Ocean County College)

Roundtable: Writing & Publishing (May 2009, Monmouth University)

New Horizons For The Literary: N. Katherine Hayles' Vision For The Future Of Literature (December 2008, Monmouth University)

What Is A Text? A Political History Of Texts From Gutenberg To Electronic Literature And Beyond (April 2008, Monmouth University)

Remixing The Canon: Electronic Literature & Distributed Narratives (November 2007, Monmouth University)

Contributor

Blogging Woolf: Writer for scholarly Virginia Woolf weblog, 2010.

Digital Humanities Now: Real time, crowd sourced, online publication which aggregates the pulse of the digital humanities community over a number of Internet tools, 2009.

New Media Projects

Hardcore Show Flyers: An archive of hardcore punk gig flyers from 1978-2008. 2007-Present

Quick Fix Magazine: Monthly column and photographs focusing on independent music and culture. 2007.

Signifying Nothing: Podcast covering independent music & online webzine focusing on independent music, culture and a final resting place for my self published fanzines from 1995-2002. 2005-2007, 2010.

Scholarly Guest Blogging

Prof Hacker:Stocking A Teaching Toolbox, 2011.

Prof Hacker: Academics and Social Media: #mla09 and Twitter, 2010.

Prof Hacker: Stocking A Teaching Tool Box.

Interviews + Media

Hardware Media & Radio: David Koenig interviewed me in 2006 about Signifying Nothing, the podcast and webzine I was doing at the time.

Version 7.0ish. Digital Humanities. Running. Pedagogy. Linux.