Dr. Aaron McKain, M.S.L.
Curriculum Vitae
professional experience | education | media & press | publications | academia | art
north central university
2018-2023
director and associate professor
school of english, digital media, and communication arts
anti-defamation league
2019-2022
consultant / curriculum designer
ai ethics, privacy, disinformation
hamline university
2011-2017
assistant professor
digital culture, politics, ethics, and law
free speech and the first amendment
mcgraw-hill
2007-2011
consultant / ed tech inventor
disinformation
ohio state university
2001-2010
speechwriter, office of the president
assistant editor, narrative
associate, digital media project
associate, first-year writing program
instructor department of english
nebraska appleseed center for
law in the public interest
1998-2001
program associate
nebraskans for peace pac
1998
coordinator
homer's
1997-2000
record store geek
EDUCATION
NEWS: print & television
"Regulating Artificial Intelligence -
Is Global Consensus Possible?"
Forbes.
Sep 9, 2022
“Criminal Conviction By Algorithms Are
Ruining Innocent Lives.”
Omaha World Herald.
August 29, 2021
w/ Thomas Freeman, and Libby Otto
“After Facebook Scandal, Local College Students Are Talking Issues of Big Tech.”
NBC KARE-11 Evening News (Minneapolis)
NBC WTOL 11 (Toledo)
NBC KHOU 11 (Houston)
NBC KXTV (Sacramento)
7 November 2021
“Why Isn’t There Social Media Forgiveness?”
NBC KARE-11 Breaking the News.
Minneapolis:
13 September 2018
“Remembrance of Things Past Fuels
Recent Run of Reboots, Relaunches, Remakes.”
Pioneer Press.
21 April 2018
Interview with Ross Raihala.
“How To Protect Your Personal Info
on Facebook.”
NBC KARE-11. Breaking the News.
Minneapolis:
21 March 2018
“Post Emmys Cameo, Spicer Says He Regrets Battles Over Trump’s Inauguration Size.”
NBC KARE-11 Breaking the News
Minneapolis:
18 September 2017
“Breaking Down the Election Speeches.”
NBC KARE-11 Evening News
Live On Air Interview
Minneapolis: 9
November 2016
“How do Those Political Speeches Come to Life?”
NBC KARE-11 Breaking the News.
Minneapolis:
27 July 2016
“What is Plagiarism?”
NBC KARE-11 Breaking the News
Minneapolis:
20 July 2016
“How Do We Reoccupy Shared Reality?"
Next Generation Politics
May 4, 2023
w/ Richard Leyva and Phillip Graham
“Digital Ethics and the Institute for Digital Humanity.”
Human Lawyer.
December 2021
w/ Shea Sullivan and Aaron McKain
"Institute for Digital Humanity, part 1."
AI and You.
March 28, 2022
w/ Shea Sullivan and Hannah Grubbs
"Institute for Digital Humanity, part 2."
AI and You.
April 4, 2022
“Critical Race Theory?”
Our Black News.
June 2021
w/ Julius Hernandez
“What is Digital Ethics.”
Our Black News.
May 2021
w/ Julius Hernandez and Annelane Sallee.
“What the Floyd Verdict
Means for Minneapolis.”
Our Black News.
April 2021
“Students Tackle Big Questions
of Online Privacy Rights.”
Creighton University News.
May 20, 2023
“Creighton Prof To Talk Digital Literary
At SXSW EDU.”
Omaha Daily Record.
February 18, 2022
“NCU Technology Students
Impacting Nation.’
AG News.
December 12, 2021
"Aaron McKain: Pushing Students to be the Innovators of Tomorrow."
Pipers in Depth.
(Hamline University.)
April 2017
"Students Are Harnessing the Power
of Digital Media to Problem-Solve and
Strengthen Human Connection."
Hamline University News.
July 2016
“Students Tackle Big Questions of Online Privacy Rights.”
Creighton University News. May 20, 2023
“Creighton Prof To Talk Digital Literary At SXSW EDU.”
Omaha Daily Record. February 18, 2022
“NCU Technology Students Impacting Nation.’
AG News. December 12, 2021
"Aaron McKain: Pushing Students to be the Innovators of Tomorrow."
Pipers in Depth. (Hamline University.)
Saint Paul, MN. April 2017
"Students Are Harnessing the Power of Digital Media to Problem-Solve and
Strengthen Human Connection."
Hamline University News. July 2016
For the public and/or industry
Academic
PUBLICATIONS:
FOR INDUSTRY
AND THE PUBLIC
“Students Tackle Big Questions of Online Privacy Rights.”
Creighton University News
May 20, 2023
“Creighton Prof To Talk Digital Literary At SXSW EDU.”
Omaha Daily Record
February 18, 2022
“NCU Technology Students Impacting Nation.’
AG News
December 12, 2021
"Aaron McKain: Pushing Students to be the Innovators of Tomorrow."
Pipers in Depth.
(Hamline University.)
April 2017
"Students Are Harnessing the Power of Digital Media to
Problem-Solve and Strengthen Human Connection."
Hamline University News.
July 2016
"Using the Lens of Narrative Theory
to Rethink Digital Ethics"
International Vincentian
Business Ethics Conference.
Proceedings. (Forthcoming)
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman
Winner:
Primeaux Award for Best Paper
(First Runner-Up)
"The Roberts Court and Compulsory Collective Bargaining: Reading the Tea
Leaves After Janus and Masterpiece."
Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy. Spring 2023.
“In Two Voices: A Neuroscientist
and Patient Tell Their Story.”
Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.
August 2020.
With Amanda Aherns and Stephen Pederson.
“Let Them All Eat Cake: Rhetorically Mapping Religious Freedom, LGBTQIA Discrimination,
and The First Amendment After Janus and Masterpiece.”
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies
in Business Proceedings. 2020.
With Thomas Freeman
Winner:
Best Paper Award
“Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment
Right to Negotiation After Janus.”
William and Mary Business Law Review.
11: 609 (2020).
With Thomas Freeman and Destiyne Sewell
“The Art of EMF Science: Aesthetics, Ethics,
and Post-Digital Health Advocacy.”
PostHuman: New Media Art 2020.
CICA Press: Seoul, South Korea: 2020
With Steven Pederson and
the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
“The Future of Collective Bargaining:
Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment
Right to Negotiation.”
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business. Proceedings 2019.
With Thomas Freeman and Destynie Sewell.
“What About Cynthia: A Case Study Exploring Corporate Fiduciary Duties and Social Responsibility.”
Journal of the International Academy
for Case Studies.
Vol. 25, Issue 4 (2019).
With Thomas Freeman
"A Legal And Ethical Audit of
Continental Bank and Trust."
Journal of the International Academy
for Case Studies
Vol. 25, Issue 2 (2019).
With Thomas Freeman
“I Want to Party With You Cowboy:
Stephen Colbert and Campaign 2016’s
Aesthetic Logic of Truthiness.”
The Joke is On Us: Political Comedy
in (Late) Neoliberal Times.
Julie Watson, Ed. Lexington Press, 2019.
With Thomas Lawson
Fear and Loathing in the New Media Era :
How to Realign our Rhetorical
Judgments for the Post-Postmodern,
Digital Media Age.
Dissertation.
Ohio State University, 2012. .
“The Rhetoric of Narrative: What the Law as Narrative Movement Can Teach
the Rest of the Narrative Turn.”
Narrative Acts: Rhetoric, Race, Identity, Knowledge.
Deborah Journet, Ed.
Hampton Press, 2011.
“Rhetoric.”
Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel.
Peter Logan, Ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
“New Media, New English.”
Reading and Writing New Media.
Eds. Cheryl E. Ball and James Kalmbach.
Hampton Press, 2009.
w/ Jason Palmeri, Cormac Slevin, and Scott Lloyd DeWitt.
Commonplace: A User’s Guide to Persuasion
(for an Age that Desperately Needs One).
McGraw-Hill, 2009.
w/ Michael Harker and Scott Lloyd DeWitt.
“Foreword.”
The Business of Higher Education: Marketing and Consumer Interests.
Eds. John C. Knapp and David J. Siegel.
Praeger, 2009.
With E. Gordon Gee.
“Re-Learning How to Argue.”
Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers.
Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe.
Hampton Press, 2007.
Audio essay.
“Made Actual Through Pain: A Literacy Narrative.”
Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers.
Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe. Hampton Press, 2007.
Documentary.
With Michael Harker and Cormac Slevin.
“Not Necessarily Not the News: Remediation,
Gatekeeping, and The Daily Show.”
Journal of American Culture 28.4 (Dec 2005): 415-430
"Using the Lens of Narrative Theory
to Rethink Digital Ethics"
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference.
Proceedings. (Forthcoming)
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman
Winner:
Primeaux Award for Best Paper
(First Runner-Up)
"The Roberts Court and Compulsory Collective Bargaining: Reading the Tea
Leaves After Janus and Masterpiece."
Georgetown Journal of
Law and Public Policy.
Spring 2023
“In Two Voices: A Neuroscientist a
nd Patient Tell Their Story.”
Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.
August 2020
With Amanda Aherns and Stephen Pederson.
“Let Them All Eat Cake: Rhetorically Mapping Religious Freedom, LGBTQIA Discrimination,
and The First Amendment After Janus and Masterpiece.”
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Proceedings.
2020
With Thomas Freeman
Winner:
Best Paper Award
“Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation After Janus.”
William and Mary Business Law Review.
11: 609 (2020).
With Thomas Freeman and Destiyne Sewell
“The Art of EMF Science: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Post-Digital Health Advocacy.”
PostHuman: New Media Art 2020.
CICA Press: Seoul, South Korea: 2020
With Steven Pederson and
the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
“The Future of Collective Bargaining: Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation.”
Midwest Academy of
Legal Studies in Business.
Proceedings 2019
With Thomas Freeman and Destynie Sewell.
“What About Cynthia: A Case Study Exploring Corporate Fiduciary Duties and Social Responsibility.”
Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies.
Vol. 25, Issue 4 (2019).
With Thomas Freeman
"A Legal And Ethical Audit of Continental Bank and Trust."
Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies
Vol. 25, Issue 2 (2019)
With Thomas Freeman
“I Want to Party With You Cowboy:
Stephen Colbert and Campaign 2016’s Aesthetic Logic of Truthiness.”
The Joke is On Us:
Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times.
Julie Watson, Ed. Lexington Press, 2019
With Thomas Lawson
Fear and Loathing in the New Media Era:
How to Realign our Rhetorical Judgments
for the Post-Postmodern, Digital Media Age.
Dissertation.
Ohio State University, 2012.
“The Rhetoric of Narrative: What the Law
as Narrative Movement Can Teach the
Rest of the Narrative Turn.”
Narrative Acts: Rhetoric, Race, Identity, Knowledge.
Deborah Journet, Ed.
Hampton Press, 2011
“Rhetoric.”
Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel.
Peter Logan, Ed.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
“New Media, New English.”
Reading and Writing New Media.
Eds. Cheryl E. Ball and James Kalmbach.
Hampton Press, 2009
w/ Jason Palmeri, Cormac Slevin,
and Scott Lloyd DeWitt.
Commonplace:
A User’s Guide to Persuasion
(for an Age that Desperately Needs One).
McGraw-Hill, 2009
w/ Michael Harker and Scott Lloyd DeWitt.
“Foreword.”
The Business of Higher Education: Marketing and Consumer Interests.
Eds. John C. Knapp and David J. Siegel.
Praeger, 2009
With E. Gordon Gee.
“Re-Learning How to Argue.”
Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers.
Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe.
Hampton Press, 2007
Audio essay.
“Made Actual Through Pain:
A Literacy Narrative.”
Multimodal Composition:
Resources for Teachers.
Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe. Hampton Press, 2007
Documentary.
With Michael Harker and Cormac Slevin.
“Not Necessarily Not the News: Remediation, Gatekeeping, and The Daily Show.”
Journal of American Culture
28.4 (Dec 2005): 415-430
Principles of Digital Law and Ethics
CPI TechREG Chronicle.
Special Issue on Machine Learning.
Feb 2023
w/ Thomas Freeman, Samson Hall
"A Primer on Digital and Data Science Ethics."
Nebraska Lawyer.
Sept/Oct 2022
w/ Thomas Freeman, Samson Hall
“Criminal Conviction By Algorithms Are Ruining Innocent Lives.”
Omaha World Herald.
August 29, 2021
w/ Thomas Freeman and Elizabeth Otto.
“The Legal Implications of
Algorithmic Decision-Making.”
Nebraska Lawyer.
May/June 2020
w/ Thomas Freeman and Samson Hall.
As Technology Evolves,
So Will the Law, and So Must Attorneys,
Nebraska Lawyer. July/August 2019
w/ Thomas Freeman
“Free Speech in Post-Digital America.”
Hennepin County Library.
Permanent Collection.
September 2019
w/ The Institute for Digital Humanity and
the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
“Are We the Rockstars
We’ve Been Waiting For?”
PopMatters.
3 Nov. 2008
“Mike Huckabee’s Family Guy Values.”
Alternet
21 Jan. 2008
“A Hypothetical Problem.”
PopMatters.
17 Sept. 2006
Note: Dr. McKain's IP/tech research was embargoed from 2020-2023
“Algorithmic Bias in the Criminal Justice System: Cheat Codes for Defense Attorneys.”
Minnesota Legal Rights Center.
Workshop.
With Marci Exted and Tom Freeman.
Fall 2022
“Technology Inclusivity in Online Dispute Resolution.”
American Bar Association
Dispute Resolution Technology Expo.
With Angie Raymond and Isak NitAsare.
Online. July 2021
“Social Justice Through Artistic Expression.”
Creative Impact Series:
Tualitan Valley Creates.
Workshop.
With Allison Baker and Steven Pedersen.
September 20, 2021 Online.
“Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy:
Curating Change.”
Lewis and Clark University.
Workshop.
With Stephen Pedersen and Allison Baker. Portland, OR and Online: October 2021
“Internet Security and Cyberbullying
Prevention Workshop.”
Little Earth Native Community.
Minneapolis, MN. April 2019
Funded By: Minnesota Health and Human Services.
“Using the Lens of Narrative Theory
to Rethink Digital Ethics."
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference.
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman. October 2022
Runnerup: Primeaux Best Paper Award.
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Reframe Health Data Sanctity.”
Inaugural Transatlantic Dialogue on Humanity and AI Regulation.
Hosted by HEC Paris. Paris, France.
May 2022
“Regulating Global Intelligence: Is Global Consensus Possible"
Reported in Forbes.
September 9, 2022
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Forgive, Forget, and Re-Program
Digital Dignity.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
With Thomas Freeman.
Organizers: Indiana University, Virginia Tech,
and University of Pennsylvania.
Online. April 2022
“Triangulating Hate Speech and Free Speech in Algorithmic Environments.”
Indiana University.
Bloomington, IN:
April 2022 (Online.)
“Algorithmic Unreliability: Narrative Theory, Digital Ethics, and The Constitutionality of Employment AI.”
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
With Thomas Freeman and Marci Exted.
Chicago, IL and Online:
March 2022
“Redefining Digital Literary: Algorithms and You.”
SXSW EDU.
With Thomas Freeman,
Ayin Morales-Monge, and Shea Sullivan.
March 2022
Winner: Online voting competition.
“Privacy 3.0: Forgiveness and Student Data After Mahoney.”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference: DePaul University.
With Thomas Freeman, Simon Truatman,
and Amanda Aherns.
Chicago, IL: October 2021
“Algorithmic Bias: How Cross-Functional Networks Can Fight Digitized Discrimination.”
Heider Business Symposium:
Creighton University.
With Thomas Freeman, Elizabeth Otto,
Ayin Monge, and Julius Hernandez.
Omaha, NE. October 2021
“Reckoning With Robots; The Constitutional Implications of Using Algorithms to Make Human Decisions.”
Midwest Associate of Legal Studies in Business/Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
With Thomas Freeman.
Chicago, IL: March 2021
“Digital Ethics: What’s Next?”
OSTROM Workshop. Indiana University School of Business.
With Julius Hernandez and Shea Sullivan.
Bloomington, IN: February 2021
“A Taxonomy of Algorithmic Unreliability: Using Facial Recognition to Map Constitutional Issues.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium. Indiana University & Virginia Tech University.
Online (COVID): May 2020
“Racist Robots? A Visual Primer on Understanding Algorithmic Bias.”
Midwest Associate of Legal Studies in Business/Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Monge-Morales, and Moises Morales.
March 2020
“Rhetoric Versus the Robots: Mapping the Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Algorithmic Discrimination.”
Consortium for the Study
of Religion, Ethics and Society
at Indiana University’s
Kelley School of Business.
Bloomington, IN. November 2019
“Why Digital Rights Is
The New Civil Rights Movement.”
North Carolina A & T State University.
Greensboro, NC: May 2018
“EMF Science and the Post-Fact Society: Models to Stop Disinformation.”
Drew University.
New Jersey: June 2018
“What Norm MacDonald and Narrative Theory Can Teach Us About Social Media Privacy Big Data Reasoning.”
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN. April 2017
In conjunction w/ exhibition for World Press Freedom Day.
“Shouting Fire: Originalism and Antonin Scalia.” Jiggery-Pokery and Applesauce?
The Impact and Legacy of
Justice Antonin Scalia
Hamline University Center
for Justice and Law.
Saint Paul, MN: February 2016
“#Objectivity: Unlikable Narrative Justice.”
Beyond Ferguson: Critical Conversations.
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN: January 2015
“Finding Bias in New York Times Reporting on Israel and Palestine.”
Yeshiva University.
New York, NY: February 2010
“2008: The Year We Re-Made Contact
(or, Why Did Postmodernism End?)"
Project Narrative Presents: Prophets in Their Own Century.
Columbus, OH: January 2009
“OurSpace: Resituating Civic Literacy in the University Curriculum.”
LiteracyStudies@OSU.
The Ohio State University.
With Michael Harker and Scott Lloyd DeWitt.
Columbus, OH: March 30, 2007
Juried, grant-funded, and/or award-winning local, national, and international group and solo shows
w/ Dr. McKain as artist or creative director
Juried, grant-funded,
&/or award-winning
national and international
group and solo shows.
Dr. McKain as curator,
diretor, organizer, or host.
“Cellular Home Invasion II.”
Solo Museum Exhibition.
Gallery 610.
With Allision Baker.
Menomonie, WI. April 2020
“Cellular Home Invasion.”
Solo International Museum Exhibition.
Czong Institute for Contemporary Art
Seoul, South Korea.
With the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
May 2019
“Feminist Aesthetic Criticism.”
Video Installation.
Bad Video Art Festival
With Allison Baker.
Moscow, Russia. July 2018
“The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.”
Video Installation.
Pop’s Movie Night.
With Allison Baker.
Detroit, MI. August 2018
“Scientific Home Invasion.”
Installation.
Pop’s Packing.
With Allison Baker.
Detroit, MI. June 2018
“Unsound Methods?”
Panel and Multimedia Performance
Rhetoric Society of America,
With Cory Holding, Matt Sumera, Josh Gumiela, and Allison Baker,
Minneapolis, MN, May 2018
“How to Write a Poem that
Costs You $175k Plus the Lady.”
Missouri Review.
Runner Up:
2017 Miller Audio Prize for Humor
“Sonance: An Interdisciplinary Discussion Concerning the Affects of Human Noise on Other Animals.”
Sound Performance and Art Residency.
University of Minnesota
Institute on the Environment.
With Josh Gumiela and Matt Sumera. Minneapolis, MN. November 2017
“Love Everlasting.”
Invited Multimedia Performance.
Italian Film Society of Minneapolis.
With Michael Gallope, Jason McGrath,
Matt Sumera, and Travis Workman.
Minneapolis, MN. February 2016
“dronesTruck: Operation Scarewaves.”
Grant Funded Art Installation.
Saint Paul, MN. October 2015
“Endlessly Repeating Endlessly.”
Juried Multimedia Performance. Northern Sparks Arts Festival.
With Michael Gallope, Josh Gumiela,
Jason McGrath, Matt Sumera,
and Travis Workman.
Minneapolis, MN. June 2015
“dronesTruck.”
Juried Multimedia Installation.
Hamline-Midway Arts Festival.
With Josh Gumiela. St. Paul, MN. June 2015
Juried, grant-funded, and/or award-winning local, national, and international group and solo shows w/ Dr. McKain as artist or creative director
“Algorithmic Bias in the Criminal Justice System: Cheat Codes for Defense Attorneys.”
Minnesota Legal Rights Center.
Workshop.
With Marci Exted and Tom Freeman.
Fall 2022
“Technology Inclusivity in Online Dispute Resolution.”
American Bar Association
Dispute Resolution Technology Expo.
With Angie Raymond and Isak NitAsare.
Online. July 2021
“Social Justice Through Artistic Expression.”
Creative Impact Series:
Tualitan Valley Creates.
Workshop.
With Allison Baker and Steven Pedersen.
September 20, 2021 Online.
“Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy:
Curating Change.”
Lewis and Clark University.
Workshop.
With Stephen Pedersen and Allison Baker.
Portland, OR and Online: October 2021
“Internet Security and Cyberbullying
Prevention Workshop.”
Little Earth Native Community.
Minneapolis, MN. April 2019
Funded By: Minnesota Health and Human Services.
“The Art of EMF Science: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Post-Digital Health Advocacy.”
Rhetoric of Health And Medicine Conference.
With Stephen Pedersen and Allison Baker. Online: October 2020
“What Would Jesus Program?”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Portland, OR. May 2020
“Cellular Home Invasion: Public Art As Rhetorical Intervention in Scientific Debates On EMF Health Effects.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
With Allison Baker and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
Portland, OR. May 2020. (COVID).
“Make Them Bake Cake? In the Wake of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Which Religious Activities Are Protected Expression
Under the First Amendment and Protected from Discrimination Laws?”
Midwest Business Administrative Association/Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Joint Conference.
With Tom Freeman and Daniel Schneider. Chicago, IL. March 2020
“Racist Robots: A Visual Primer on Understanding Algorithmic Bias.”
Midwest Business Administrative Association/Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Joint Conference.
With Tom Freeman and Dan Schneider. Chicago, IL. March 2020
“Rhetoric Versus the Robots II:
The Ethics of Algorithmic Unreliability.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
With Weston Cregut and Rebekah Winkel.
New Orleans, LA. March 2020
“The Right to Speak, Bake, or Film…or Not…Which Activities are Protected Expression Under the First Amendment?”
Huber Hurst Research Seminar
in Business Law and Ethics.
With Thomas Freeman.
Gainsville, FL. January 2020
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Navigate Legal, Corporate, and Community Debates on Algorithmic Ethics.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Washington and Lee School of Law.
With Thomas Freeman.
Lexington, VA. April 2019
“Unsound Methods?”
Panel and Multimedia Performance. Rhetoric Society of America.
With Cory Holding, Matt Sumera, Josh Gumiela, Allison Baker, and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
Minneapolis, MN, May 2018
Sound Studies.
Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America
Summer Institute.
Bloomington, IN. May 2017
“Campaign Narrative, The End: A New Story for the Narrative Model of Rhetorical Agency,”
Rhetoric Society of America.
San Antonio, TX. May 2014
“The New New Journalism:
The Post-Postmodern Aesthetics
of Narrative As Rhetoric.”
The International Society
for the Study of Narrative.
Boston, MA. March 2014
Rogue Publics. Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America
Summer Institute.
Lawrence, KS. June 2013
21st Century Presidential Rhetoric. Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America
Summer Institute.
Lawrence KS: June 2013.
“Audience 3.0: A New Rhetorical Ethics (and Aesthetics) for a Post-Remix Era.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Philadelphia, PA. May 2012
“The Gentle Art of Accepting Enemies: New Media and the Rhetorical Aesthetics of Audience Exclusion.”
The International Society f
or the Study of Narrative.
St. Louis, MO. April 2011
“Playing Out Remix,”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Louisville, KY. March 2010
“End the Gaffe (And How Narrative Theory Let’s Us Do It).”
The International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Birmingham, UK. June 2009
“I’m Not There Anymore: The Return of Identity in the Post-Remix Age.”
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.
Louisville, KY. October 2008
“Ethos in a Remediated Age: Context, Character, and Community.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Seattle, WA. May 2008
Digital Rhetoric. Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Troy, NY. June 2007
“Evaluating the ‘Narrative Turn."
Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum.
Columbus, OH. April 2007
“Shouting ‘Fire’ in the Writing Classroom: Rhetoric, Law, and Composition.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
New York, NY. March 2007
“Alive and well and living in Washington’: Narrativity, Casebook Logic, and Legal Pedagogy.”
The International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Washington, D.C. March 2007
“The Rhetoric of Narrative--or, maybe, ‘The Narrative of Narrative.’”
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.
Louisville, KY. October 2006
“The Rhetoric of ‘Rhetoric’ in Rhetoric and Political Science.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Memphis, TN. May 2006
“New Media, New Curricula.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Chicago, IL. April 2006
“The ‘Dean Scream’ Didn’t Happen (And How it Did).”
American Popular Culture Association.
Atlanta, GA. April 2006
“Narrative Temporality in News Stories.”
The International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Ottawa, Canada April 2006
“Finding Authorization to ‘lance the boil’: Context, Content, and Free Speech Zones.”
Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities.
Syracuse, NY. March 2006
“Is It Something or Nothing? Narratologically Situating the Music of John Zorn’s Naked City.”
Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum.
Columbus, OH. April 2004
“’But…This is a Good Graph’: What a Political Science Classroom (and the Spanish-American War) Can Tell us About Interdisciplinarity, Grad
Students, and the Rhetoric of Rhetoric (and Vice Versa).”
The Ohio State University. EGO Spring Graduate Colloquium
Columbus, OH. May 2005
“All Bullets Shatter: Untold Stories of Gun Violence and Trauma.”
Living Art Exhibition and Civic Forum
Minneapolis, MN and Online: May 2022
With the Institute for Digital Humanity; Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy; Guns Down, Love Up; Project Minnesota; The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (Ohio State, Portland State, George State); and the Pittsburgh University Prison Writing Project.
“Plugging In: Race, Technology, and Surveillance Workshop for Advocates and Educators.”
Northeast Sculpture Gallery:
Minneapolis, MN. October 2021
With ACLU MN, Safety Not Surveillance, Reclaim the Block, Councilman Simon Trautmann (Richfield, MN), and Councilman Steve Fletcher (Minneapolis, MN).
“Digital Rights Are Civil Rights: Race and Technology.”
Juried International Art Exhibition and Community Education Event
Minneapolis MN and Online: February 2021
With the Institute for Digital Humanity, Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy, ACLU MN, Native Youth Arts Collective, and Councilman Steve Fletcher.
“Contaminated.”
International Juried Art Exhibition
and Civic Forum
Minneapolis, MN and Online: May 2020
With the Institute for Digital Humanity and Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
“Medical Unreliability and Sick Girl Theory.”
Curated Cross-Cultural Art Exchange
St. Cloud Zine Fest.
St. Cloud, MN. February 2020
With Allison Baker, the Institute for Digital Humanity,
and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
“Sad Girls and Hopeful Women.”
Curated Cross-Cultural Art Exchange
Twin Cities Zine Fest. Minneapolis, MN. September 2020
With Allison Baker, the Institute for Digital Humanity,
and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
“Hopeful Women.”
Student Art Installation on Christian Feminism
Hamline University. Saint Paul, MN. Dec 2018
“World Press Freedom Day:
What Do You Have to Say,”
Student Art Installation on Free Speech
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN. April 2017
“Y2K16.”
Student Art Installation on Digital Ethics
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN. December 2016
“dronesTruck: Operation Como.”
Student-Curated International Sound Art Exhibition
Saint Paul, MN. May 2016
“School Violence:
An Interdisciplinary Approach.”
Student Art Installation on School Shootings
Hamline University. Saint Paul, MN.
December 2015
Juried, grant-funded, and/or award-winning local, national, and international group and solo shows.
w/ Dr. McKain as curator, organizer, and/or host