About

Mark Christopher Marino
Assistant Professor (teaching) of Writing

Contact Information
Office: JEF 150
Phone: (213) 740-1980
E-mail: markcmarino@gmail.com

LINKS
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Website
Personal Research Site
Writer Response Theory: collaborative research blog on digital character art
a show of hands
 

Biographical Sketch
Mark C. Marino holds and MFA from Notre Dame and a Ph.D. from UC Riverside, where he focused on chatbots, electronic literature, games, and other new media. His previous work includes a Flash narrative, "Labyrinth: the Rulebook without Game," which he presented at the 2004 &Now festival. He is the founder and editor of Bunk Magazine (http://www.bunkmag.com). He currently teaches writing at the University of Southern California. His latest work "a show of hands" is an adaptive hypertext novela. (portfolio here: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~mcmarino/)
 

Education
M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of Notre Dame, 5/1996
M.A. English and American Literature, Loyola Marymount University, 5/2001
Ph.D. English: Electronic Literature, UC Riverside, 6/2006
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Research interests include: conversational agents, new media, instructional technology, game studies, social networking, and writing practices.
 

Research Keywords
new media, game studies, electronic literature, composition, conversational agents, hypertext, code, mobile narratives, software studies, critical code studies, technoculture, social media, Web 2.0, educational technology
 

Research Specialties
Electronic Literature, New Media, Computers and Composition, Digital Narrative, Conversational Agents, Game Studies, Critical Code Studies, Software Studies
 

Conferences and Other Presentations

Conference Presentations
" Must Universities Twitter? What our students know about tech.", PACRAO, Keynote Lecture, , Newport, CA, PACRAO, Invited, 2009-2010   
"Critical Code Studies of Queer Technology", SLSA 2009, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Atlanta, GA, SLSA, 2009-2010   
"Disrupting heteronormative codes: When cylons in slash goggles ogle Anna Kournikova", DAC 09, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed Paper, UC Irvine, CA, DAC, 2009-2010   
"Literatronica: adaptive digital narrative", Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Pittsburgh, PA, ACM, 2009-2010   
"Critical Code Studies: Tracking Terrorist and Databases", Digital Humanities 2009, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , University of Maryland, MITH, 2008-2009   
"LA Flood Project", HASTAC II: Techno Travels/TeleMobil HASTAC in Motion, Poster, , UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, HASTAC, 2008-2009   
"Marginalia in the Library of Babel", &Now Festival of Innovative Writing and Art, Reading, Refereed , Chapman U, CA, &Now, 2008-2009   
"Original Chat: Exploring the Origins of the Turing Test", ELO: Visionary Landscapes, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Washington State University-Vancouver, Electronic Literature Organization, 2008-2009   
"The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sharable Educational Content", Educause Live!, Lecture/Seminar, , online webinar, Educause, Invited, Spring 2009   
"Web 2.0 and the Future of Learning Management Systems", Center For Scholarly Technology Faculty Forum, Talk/Oral Presentation, , USC, CST, Invited, Fall 2008   
"Beta Writer: Portrait of the Author as an Early Adopter", Modern Language Association Conference, Poster, Refereed , Chicago, IL, Modern Language Association Conference, 2007-2008   
"Critical Code Studies", Softwhere Studies, Talk/Oral Presentation, , UC San Diego, Software Studies Group, UCSD, Invited, 2007-2008   
"Examining the Information Systems of the Electronic Literature Collection", ELO: Visionary Landscapes, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Washington State U. -- Vancouver, Electronic Literature Organization, 2007-2008   
"Marginalia Ficcional de la Biblioteca de Babel", VI Jornadas de Investigacion Literaria y Linguistica, online talk, Refereed , Maracaibo, Venzuela, Universidad del Zulia, 2007-2008   
"Procedural Rhetoric: Code as Argument", SLSA 2007: code, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Portland, Maine, Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts, 11/02/2007  
"International Electronic Literature", The Future of the Electronic Literature, Talk/Oral Presentation, , MITH, UM, Electronic Literature Organization/MITH, Invited, 05/02/2007  
"Racial Transformations in Keepers of the House.", Symposium on Shirley Ann Grau, Talk/Oral Presentation, , LSU, Dept. of English, LSU, Invited, 11/20/2006  
 

Publications

Book Chapter
Marino, M. C. (2006). 12 Easy Lessons to Better Time Travel. (Vol. NA). Second Person/MIT Press.
 

Journal Article
Marino, M. C. (2008). Review: The Electronic Literature Collection Volume I: A New Media Primer. Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 2 (1)
Marino, M. C. (2007). Re: Ulysses in Hypertext: Towards a hypermedia parallax engine. James Joyce Quarterly/University of Tulsa. Vol. NA
Marino, M. C. (2007). Critical Code Studies. electronic book review/Joseph Tabbi. Vol. NA
Marino, M. C. (2006). Communities of Chatbots: a Survey of the makers and users of conversation agents. New Media and Society/Sage. Vol. NA
Marino, M. C. (2005). Multimedia Hurston. Explorations/Flora Levy Humanities Series. Vol. NA
Marino, M. C. (1997). Equivocado. Arkansas Review/Arkansas State University. Vol. NA
 

Short Story
Marino, M. C. (2007). Marginalia in the Library of Babel. (Marino, Mark Christopher, Ed.). Virginia. New River Journal. Link to the Story
Marino, M. C. (2007). a little show of hands. (Helen J Burgess, Ed.). hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures.
 

Multimedia Scholarship and Creative Works
A Show of Hands, an adaptive hypertext novela written using the Literatronica system, 2007-2008   
"22 Short Films about Grammar" Machinima, Series of instructional videos produced using Activision's "The Movies", 2006-2007   
Web 2.0 Application Generator, A Flash-based generator, satirizing the Web 2.0 application hyper-proliferation., Spring 2007   
"The Los Wikiless Timespedia" Wiki, a wiki-based satire of the end of newspapers., 2007-2008   
 

Teaching Innovations and Multimedia Teaching
USC Writing Widgets (with students), 2008-2009   
The USC Topoi Widgets, 2007-2008   
 

Service to the Profession

Editorships and Editorial Boards
Editor, Bunk Magazine, 08/1998-05/2010  
 

Professional Offices
Communication Director, Board of Directors, Electronic Literature Organization, 09/2007-09/2010  
 

Professional Memberships
CLACSO (El Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales), 2006-  
International Communication Association, 2006-  
Modern Language Association, 2006-  
National Communication Association, 2006-  
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2006-  
Association of Internet Researchers, 2005-  
Electronic Literature Organization, 2005-  
 
 

Reviewer for Publication
International Journal of Human Computer Studies, "The International Journal of Human-Computer Studies publishes original research over the whole spectrum of work relevant to the theory and practice of innovative interactive systems. The journal is inherently interdisciplinary, covering research in computing, artificial intelligence, psychology, linguistics, communication, design, engineering, and social organization, which is relevant to the design, analysis, evaluation and application of innovative interactive systems. Papers at the boundaries of these disciplines are especially welcome, as it is our view that interdisciplinary approaches are needed for producing theoretical insights in this complex area and for effective deployment of innovative technologies in concrete user communities.", 2006-2007   
 
 
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