Christopher Leslie
Instructor of Media, Science, and Technology Studies
Academic Advisor for Sustainable Urban Environments and Science and Technology Studies students
Technology, Culture and Society
- Phone: (718) 260-3130
- Email: cleslie@duke.poly.edu
- Location: 213H Rogers Hall
- Website: http://faculty.poly.edu/~cleslie
Education
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Doctor of Philosophy, English
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Master of Arts, American Studies
Courses Taught
Research Interests
Media and technology in the 20th century, digital humanities, history of Internet technology, science fiction and utopian literature.
Awards + Distinctions
Samuel Eleazar and Rose Tartakow Levinson Prize for an original essay in the intellectual history of technology, Society for the History of Technology, 2011.
Fulbright Grant: Guest professor at the Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Univertität Potsdam, Germany, 2008-2009.
Robert Adams Day Prize for the best dissertation involving interdisciplinary work, 2007.
Event Participation
“The Military-Industrial Complex in the 1960s Novels,” Worlds Out of Joint: Re-Imagining Philip K. Dick, TU Dortmund University: will present November 2012.
“The Continuous Present in the Clinic: Stein’s 3 Lives and The Making of Americans,” European Society for the Study of English: will present September 2012.
“Fictionalizing in the Age of Big Science: Asimov’s Galactic Empires as Social Science Fiction,” European Society for the Study of English: will present September 2012.
“Walter Benjamin and the Stages of Civilization,” Barbarism Revisited conference at Leiden University: will present May 2012.
“The Dead Astronaut Story,” ACLA panel on The Corpse and Catastrophe, 2012.
"Science Fiction and the ARPANet," Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference, 2012.
“Hugo Gernsback's Utopian Radio Citizens of New York in 2660 (or 1911),” New York Institute of Technology’s Modernist Manhattan, 2012.
“‘Come to Paris Where You Can Be Looked After’: Paul Bowles Remediates Gertrude Stein,” Modern Language Association, 2012.
“An Earthman in Spacetown: C. L. Moore’s Northwest Smith Stories,” Russian Society of American Culture Studies, 2011.
“As We Had Been Thinking: The Memex as Convergence,” Society for the History of Technology, 2011.
“The Unstable Reality as Counterhegemony: Jack Vance, J. G. Ballard, and Philip K. Dick,” Batι Kültürü ve Edebiyatlarι Araştιrmalarι Sempozyumu at Pamukkale University, 2011.
“Word Clouds as Deformance: A Study of Stein’s 3 Lives,” Humanities and Technology Association, 2011.
“Translation and Cosmopolitan Science in Hugo Gernsback’s Magazines,” Science Fiction Research Association, 2011.
Memberships
Hometown
Fredonia, NY
Affiliations
- Modern Language Association
- Society for the History of Technology
- Science Fiction Research Association
Journal Articles
“As We Should Have Thought: The Intellectual Legacy of the Memex,” under consideration by Technology and Culture.
“‘Fighting an Unseen Enemy’: The Infectious Paradigm in the Conquest of Pellagra,” Journal of Medical Humanities 23 (Winter 2002), 187–202.
Other Publications
"Unstable Reality in the Age of Big Science: The Counterhegemonic Strategies of Jack Vance, J. G. Ballard, and Philip K. Dick," forthcoming in an edited volume from the 2nd International BAKEA conference.
"China and the Internet" (review essay of Guobin Yang, The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online, Susan L. Shirk (ed.), Changing Media, Changing China, and David Kurt Herol and Peter Marolt (eds.), Online Society in China), Media, Culture, and Society, forthcoming.
“Aesthetic Tourists: The Sheltering Sky’s Critique of Modernism,” forthcoming in the proceedings of the Paul Bowles Centennial-International Conference.
"Decolonizing the Internet" (review essay of Cyrus Farivar, The Internet of Elsewhere: The Emergent Effects of a Wired World, Jaffer Sheyholislami, Kurdish Identity, Discourse, and New Media, and Miriyam Aouragh, Palestine Online: Transnationalism, Communications and the Reinvention of Identity), Global Media and Communication 8.1 (April 2012): 81-8.
“Isaac Asimov: I, Robot.” The Literary Encyclopedia. April 2012. http://www.litencyc.com.
“The Rise of the Confident Reader.” Review essay in American Quarterly, 63.4 (December 2011).
Review Essay: The Master Switch, In the Plex and The Net Delusion for the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 62.12 (December 2011): 2540–2545. (preprint)
“Metacognition through Group Practice in New Media,” Media/Culture 9:2 (May 2006).
“Writing Self-Assessment for First-Year Engineering Students: Initial Findings,” Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2004.
Biography
Before coming to Poly, I worked as an editor at a management services consulting firm while I attended graduate school. I began teaching at Poly in the fall of 2001, and in 2006 I designed the Science and Technology Studies major with Professor Jonathan Bain. I currently am the academic advisor for students in Science and Technology Studies and Sustainable Urban Environments. I teach courses in the Science and Technology Studies and Digital Media programs.