Graduate Student Profile

Viola Lasmana

Status: Pre_Qual

Contact Information

E-mail: lasmana@usc.edu

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Biographical Sketch


Born and raised in Indonesia, Viola Lasmana is now entering her third year in the English PhD department at USC. Prior to moving to Los Angeles, Viola lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for twelve years, where she received her BA from the University of San Francisco and MA from San Francisco State University. 


Education

  • B.A. English, University of San Francisco, 05/2004
  • M.A. English, San Francisco State University, 08/2010


Employment History

  • Assistant Lecturer, The Writing Program, University of Southern California, 2012-2013

Research


Summary Statement of Research Interests


  • Late 19th-early 20th c. American literature, postcolonial theories, Indonesian literature, digital humanities, media studies, digital pedagogies, remix.

Conference Presentations

  • “Knowledge, Democracy, and the Aesthetics of New Media.” Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, 7/2012
  • "Hacking the Classroom: A Roundtable of Lightning Talks." Computers and Writing Conference, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC , 5/2012
  • “The Weight of Memory: Li-Young Lee’s Poetry and the Materiality of Language.” Humanities Education and Research Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, 3/2011
  • “New Media Literacies and Representation.” Digital Media in a Social World Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2/2010
  • “Making Public, and Being Made Public: Dilemmas of Social Media In/Out of the University Classroom.” Co-presented with David Malinowski. The Future of the Forum: Internet Communities and the Public Interest Symposium, The Berkeley Center for New Media, UC Berkeley, CA, 12/2009
  • “(Re)Mediated Intertextualities in the 21st Century: YouTube and the Age of Digital Reproduction.” Literature and Film Association Annual Conference, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 10/2009

Other Presentations


  • "Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities (Participant) ", Summer Institute, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, BC, 08/04/2012-08/08/2012  
  • "Text-Encoding Fundamentals and Their Application (Participant)", Summer Institute, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, BC, 06/07/2010-06/11/2010  

Publications


  • Book Review
    Lasmana, V. (2009). Review of Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination, by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum. Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies. Link to article
     
    Journal Article
    Lasmana, V. (2010). A Time of Opening: Literary Practices in the Age of New Media and Digital Textuality. Interdisciplinary Humanities: Publication of the Humanities Education and Research Association. Vol. 27:1
     

Service to the Profession


Professional Memberships


  • Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2011-  
  • HASTAC, 2009-  
  • Humanities Education and Research Association, 2009-  
  • Modern Language Association, 2008-  

 

 

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