New Century College

 

Kristin Scott

Kristin Scott teaches in the Department of English and New Century College and is working on her PhD in Cultural Studies at George Mason University. She has been teaching courses in postmodern and interactive literature, popular/visual culture, cultural studies, cybercultures, and applied critical writing about the arts and media since 2005. Her research and teaching interests include the use of technology in education, postmodern and interactive literature, visual and media culture, virtual identity re/constructs, and the performance of digital/virtual and cyborg bodies.

COURSES TAUGHT

At GMU:

• NCLC 130 The Social World
• ENG 101 Composition
• ENG 201 Reading and Writing About Texts

Other courses:

Harold Washington College, Humanities Department, Chicago, IL

• Popular Cultures

Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL (2005-2008)

• Introduction to Cultural Studies
• Cybercultures: Theory
• Reviewing the Arts
• Literature and the Culture of Cyberspace
• Introduction to Literature
• Composition I
• Writer's Portfolio

DEGREES

• PhD Cultural Studies, George Mason University [in progress]
• A.M., Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2004.
• MFA, Creative Writing, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2004.
• BA, English Literature, Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1999.

PUBLICATIONS

• Ghost writer of six chapters of academic book about success in online learning, 2007.
• “Gateway to Virtual Science,” University of Chicago Magazine, Dec. 2001
• “And the Beat Goes On,” University of Chicago Magazine, Dec. 2001
• “The Human Canvas: Wiping the Slate Clean,” South Loop Review, Volume 7, 2004.
  
• 8 profiles, NewCity Chicago: Lit50 Edition, May 2002.
  “70s Bandana Blues,” Loop Hole, May, 2002.
  
• Fiction Review of Sons of the Rapture, by Todd Dills, DEMO Magazine, Fall 2006.
  
• Nonfiction review of In the Shade of Time, by Queen Wicks, DEMO Magazine, Summer 2006.
  
• “The Naked Truth,” Non-Fiction review of Naked in the Promised Land, by Lillian Faderman, NewCity Chicago, February, 2003.
  
• “Our Daily Bread,” Non-Fiction review of Going with the Grain: A Wandering Bread Lover Takes a Bite Out of Life, by Susan Seligson, published in NewCity Chicago, December, 2002.
  
• “Story Stew,” Fiction review of Trash, by Dorothy Allison, NewCity Chicago, October, 2002.
  
• “The Greatest Story Never Told,” Fiction review of Adiel, by Shlomo DuNour, NewCity Chicago, September, 2002.
  
• Fiction review of Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters, Columbia Chronicle, April, 2002.