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"