Annie researches literary spoofs on technology, the mathematics of hoaxes, faux physics, and pseudo-scientific fiction. Working under the direction of Drs. Judith Roof and Timothy Morton, her dissertation project, "Hoax Machina," reconsiders coincident formalist and structuralist developments in the history of logico-mathematics, philosophy of language, and literary theory, understood as a narrative playfully doubled in hoaxic literature from the early avant garde to our contemporary period.

Specializations:

Literary Spoofs on Technology

The Mathematics of Hoaxes

Faux Physics

Pseudo-scientific Fiction

Academic History:

M.A., English, University of Kansas

B.A., English, University of Central Missouri

Dissertation Title:

"Hoax Machina"