POSITIONS
(present) Assistant Professor of Digital Media, School of Literature, Media and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology
(2014-2015) Postdoctoral Researcher, Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
EDUCATION
(2014) Ph.D. Cultural Studies, Women's and Gender Studies Certificate, Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory, Stony Brook University
Dissertation Title: “Sierra On-Line and the Archaeology of Video Game History”
(2006) M.A. English—Cultural Studies, Department of English, Kansas State University
(2004) B.F.A., University of Dayton, Graphic Design, Minor in History
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
(2017) “Let’s Begin Again: Sierra On-Line and the ‘Origins’ of the Graphical Adventure Game.” American Journal of Play. 9(1). [forthcoming]
(2013) “A Pedestal, A Table, A Love Letter: Archaeologies of Gender in Video Game History.” Game Studies. 13(2).
Guest-Edited Journal Issues
(2014) Laine Nooney and Laura Portwood-Stacer, eds. Journal of Visual Culture. Special Issue: Internet Memes and Visual Culture. 13(3) (forthcoming December).
Encyclopedia Entries and Short Essays
(2016) “Menu.” In Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon. Eds. Raiford Guins and Henry Lowood. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
(2014) Laine Nooney and Laura Portwood-Stacer. “One Does Not Simply Write About Memes: Introduction to the Special Issue.” Journal of Visual Culture. Special Issue: Internet Memes and Visual Culture. 13(3).
(2013) “Easter Eggs.” In Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media and Textuality. Eds. Lori Emerson, Marie-Laure Ryan and Benjamin Robertson. Johns Hopkins University Press.
(2011) Laine Nooney and Raiford Guins. “Videogames.” In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Film and Media Studies. Ed. Krin Gabbard. New York: Oxford University Press.
In Preparation
Before We Were Gamers: Forgetting and Remembering an Industry's Dawn. [book manuscript]
"On Footwork: Getting Lost in the Local." Game History and the Local. Melaine Swalwell, Ed. [chapter in edited volume]
"When Indie Games Came in Ziploc Bags." [journal article]
Web and Editorial Publications
(2014) "The Odd History of the First Erotic Computer Game." The Atlantic. 2 December.
(2012) “1980s Lifehacking Software for Ladies, Gloria Steinem-Approved.” The Vault @ Slate.com. 14 November.
(2010) “Screening Her Out: Computer, Gaming, History.” Paperweight: A Newspaper of Visual and Material Culture. 1(1).
AWARDS, GRANTS AND HONORS
(2016) GT-Mini Fire Grant for “Digital Pasts, Digital Futures Speaker Series.” Georgia Tech Office of Sponsored Programs. Atlanta, GA. Co-submitted with GT Libraries retroTECH. $1250.
(2016) Association for Computing Machinery Oral History Workshop (Competitive Honor). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 11 – 13 May.
(2015) Conference Grants-in-Aid Proposal. NYU Center for the Humanities. New York, NY. Co-submitted with Erica Robles-Anderson and Shari Wolk. $4,000.
(2014) Softalk Apple Project Researcher of the Year Award.
(2014) Strong Research Fellowship. Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, NY. $1,000.
(2013) Faculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship Award, Stony Brook University Graduate School. $10,000.
(2012) Distinguished Travel Award, The Graduate Student Organization at Stony Brook University. $975.
(2012) Graduate Student Employees Union Professional Development Award. $750.
(2012) Provost's Graduate Student Lecture Series (Competitive Honor). Stony Brook University.
(2012) National Meeting Travel Grant, Society for the History of Technology. $700.
(2012) 2nd annual Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies (Competitive Honor). Princeton University. 17 – 23 June 2012.
(2012) Douglas A. Noverr Grant for Collection Enhancement for Institutions to Build Popular Culture and American Culture Research Collections, Popular Culture Association. Co- submitted with Raiford Guins and Kristen Nyitray for the William A. Higinbotham Video Game Collection. $5,000.
(2011) Michael Schoenecke Travel Grant for Graduate Students to the National Conference, Popular Culture Association. $300.
(2007) 2nd Annual Winterhouse International Student Award for Design Writing & Criticism, sponsored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. $1000.
(2007) Graduate Fellowship (6 years), Stony Brook University Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies Department.
(2005) Cultural Studies Essay Award, Kansas State University English Department.
(2004) Graduate Fellowship (2 years), Kansas State University English Department.
INVITED LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Invited Keynotes and Independent Lectures
(2017) Techniques of the Corporation. University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada. “On Footwork: How to Get People Talking in a Town that Wants to Forget.” 5 May.
(2017) Game Developer's Conference. Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA. "Save Yourself: Game History is in Your Hands." 1 March.
(2016) PRACTICE: Game Design in Detail. New York University. New York, NY. “On the Politics of Tools.” 11-13 November.
(2016) NYU Game Center. New York University. New York, NY. “When Indie Games Came in Ziploc Bags.” 14 April.
(2015) Institute for Public Knowledge. New York University. New York, NY. “Video Game History at the Kitchen Table.” 30 October.
(2014) School for Poetic Computation. New York, NY. “How the Computer Became Personal.” 3 December.
(2014) Umea University. HUMlab, Umea, Sweden. “The Long Now of Gamergate: How Game History Became Game Culture.” 25 November.
(2013) Michigan Technical University. Houghton, MI. “How We Compute History: Women, Computers and Gaming in the 1980s Household.” 5 November.
(2013) K-State Book Network: Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One. Kansas State University. “Girls Had Game: Locating a History of Women's Play We Forgot to Remember.” 27 September.
(2013) Personal Best: A Series on Feminist Game Design Practices. Game Center, New York University. “Before We Were 'Gamers': Roberta Williams, Sierra On-Line and How We Write Women into Video Game History.” 26 March.
(2011) Women's Week. Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY. “The Mythic Function of Lady Gaga: Playing the Witch in Popular Music and Culture.” 29 March.
Invited Panels and Responses
(2015) “Tables, Teapots, and a Tartan Couch: Media Archaeology and Computer Histories.” Invited Speaker. Babycastles, New York, New York. 8 May.
(2015) “Technology as Art and Digital Curation.” Invited Panelist. FACETS. 2 May.
(2015) WordHack X. Invited Speaker. Babycastles, New York, New York. "Genealogies of the Text Adventure." 16 April.
(2014) Introduction to Game Analysis Book Launch. Invited Respondent. Game Center, New York University. Brooklyn, NY. 6 November.
(2014) Indiecade. Invited Speaker. Carson City, CA. “The Lost History of Softporn Adventure.” 12 October.
(2014) Yellow Thread Society. Invited Speaker. New York, New York. 27 May.
(2013) Grassroots Game Conference. Invited Panelist. Philadelphia, PA. “Remembering Play Differently.” 16 October.
(2013) Hack'n Jill Build N' Play. Invited Panelist. Gilt Groupe, New York. “Game Culture, Game History.” 10 September.
Workshop Participation
(2015) “Diversifying Barbie and Mortal Kombat.” Invited Participant. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. 24-25 April.
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
Panels Organized
(2017) Command Lines: Software, Power and Performance. Computer History Museum. Mountain View, CA. “Tools, Techniques and Communities: Oral History in Software History.” 18 March.
(2016) Society for the History of Technology. Singapore. “Making Games Go: Hardware and Software at the Intersection of Computer and Game History.” Co-organized with Jacob Gaboury. 24 June.
(2015) Theorizing the Web. New York, New York. “Meme, Medium, Mode.” Co-organized with Laura Portwood-Stacer. 18 April.
(2015) Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada. “How Computing Became Personal: Genealogies of
Computer Culture.” Co-organized with Joy Rankin. 29 March.
(2013) American Studies Association. Washington, DC. “Producing Play: Labor and Leisure in Early Video Game Culture.” 24 November.
(2013) Society for the History of Technology. Portland, MA. “Gaming the History of Technology.” Co-organized with Jacob Gaboury. 11 October.
(2013) Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. “New/Media/Archaeologies: Extensions and Interventions in Media Archaeology Methods.” 7 March.
Conference Presentations and Workshops
(2016) Society for Literature, Science and the Arts. Atlanta, GA. “On Footwork: How to Get People Talking in a Town that Wants to Forget.” 3 November.
(2016) Extending Play 3. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ. “In the Beginning the World was Flat: Notes on the Sierra On-Line Game Engine.” 31 September.
(2016) SIGCIS Annual Workshop. Singapore. “Local Data, Local Users: A Case Study in Data Visualization for Computer History with Softalk.” Co-written with Kevin Driscoll. 26 June.
(2016) Society for the History of Technology. Singapore. “Puzzling Engines: Game Design and Software Innovation at Sierra On-Line in the 1980s.” 24 June.
(2016) Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Atlanta, GA. “What the Engine Can't Reveal: The Other Lives of Sierra On-Line's AGI Development Software.” 31 March.
(2016) Hands On History. London, England. “Re-Circulating Softalk: Cross-Sector Collaboration for the Visualization and Re-enactment of American Apple II Culture.” Co-presented with Kevin Driscoll. 8 February.
(2015) SIGCIS Annual Workshop. Albuquerque, NM. “The Infrastructure of Expertise, or What Game Engines Allow.” 11 October.
(2015) Extending Play. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. “Destined to Repeat Itself: The Rise and Fall of “Indie” Games, 1979-1984.” 18 April.
(2014) Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Invited Participant. Seattle, WA. “Queer and Feminist Platform Studies Workshop.” 20 March.
(2014) IndieCade East. Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY. “When Indie Games Came in Ziploc Bags.” 15 February.
(2013) American Studies Association. Washington, DC. “Home Productivity: Domestic Labor, Game Development, and the Making of Sierra On-Line.” 24 November.
(2013) Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting. Portland, MA. “Competition or Camaraderie?: A Cultural History of the Early 1980s West Coast Microcomputer Game Software Industry.” 10 October.
(2013) First International History of Games Conference. Montreal, Canada. “More Games for Mother: Roberta Williams, Sierra On-Line, and the Domestic Contexts of 1980s Computer Gaming.” 22 June.
(2013) Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. “Materialist Methods for Mystery House(s): A Feminist Media Archaeology of Video Games.” 7 March.
(2012) Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting. Copenhagen, Denmark. “Home is Where the Game Is: A Cultural History of Sierra On-Line and Women's Computer Gaming.” 5 October.
(2012) Critical Themes in Media Studies Graduate Student Conference. New School for Social Research. New York, NY. “Between Cold Gazes and Vital Bodies: Considering Neomaterial Feminist Media Archaeology.” 14 April.
(2012) Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Boston, MA. “Calculating the Kitchen: Domestic Space as Computer History.” 25 March.
(2011) Stony Brook Graduate Conference. Stony Brook University. New York, NY. “When the Digital Never Looked So Analog: A Media Archaeology of Retro Camera Cell Phone Apps.” Co- presented with David Smucker. 11 March.
(2011) Popular Culture Association National Conference. San Antonio, TX. “On the Edge of Her Screen: A New Domestic History of Computers and Computer Games.” 21 April.
(2010) Women and Gender Studies Graduate Conference: Cycles. Stony Brook University, New York, New York. “Mobile Women, Bipedal Bodies: Women and Technology in 1890s Ladies' Home Journal Advertisements.” 13 March.
(2009) Popular Culture Association Conference National Conference. New Orleans, LA. “Speaking the Parser: Disordered Language and the Adventure-Game.” 9 April.
(2008) Queer Symposium. Stony Brook University. Stony Brook, NY. “Welcome to the Genderfuck: Sex, Gender and Video Games.” 14 March.
(2007) Cultural Studies Conference: Entertainment! Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS. “Have You Ever Tried Not Being a Mutant?: Queer Negativity and the Question of Citizenship in the X-Men Films.” 8 March.
(2006) American Institute of Graphic Arts Design Education Conference: Design Frontier. Denver, CO. “Marking Territory in a Lonely Frontier: Graphic Design Research in an English Department” and “Guns, Gays and Swastikas: Questions of Design Power.” Co- presented with Prof. Jayne Matlack-Whitaker and Emily Wallace. 2 December.
(2005) English Department Graduate Student Colloquium. Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. “No Comment: The Silence of the Swastika in Graphic Design History.” 8 April.
(2005) English Graduate Organization Conference. University of Florida. Gainsville, FL. “Dead Silence: Cultural Theory, Graphic Design History and the Silence of the Swastika.” 27 October.
(2005) Cultural Studies Association. Tucson, AZ. “Consuming the Head: Mind, Body, and Gender Reproduction in Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs.” 22 April.
(2005) Cultural Studies Conference. Emporia State University. Emporia, KS. “Baudry Visits the Satellite of Love: Cinema, Ideology and Apparatus in Mystery Science Theater 3000.” 11 February.
(2005) Cultural Studies Conference: Visual Culture. Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS. “Low Resolution, No Resolution: Power, Responsibility, and Experiments in Graphic Design Masochism.” 10 March.
Conference Organization
(2017) Conference Co-Organizer. “Command Lines: Software, Power and Performance.” Computer History Museum. Co-Organized as part of SIGCIS Conferences Committee. 18 – 19 March.
(2016 — 2017) Speaker Series Co-Organizer. “Digital Pasts, Digital Futures.” Georgia Tech. Co-organized with GT Libraries retroTECH.
(2015-2016) Designer and Producer. Mistakes Were Made: Computer History, Decompiled. Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University. 17 April 2015; 15 April 2016.
(2013) Conference Assistant. International Video Game History Conference. Montreal, Canada. 21 – 23 June.
(2013) Conference Co-Organizer. Different Games: A Conference on Diversity, Difference and Inclusivity in Games and Culture. Co-organized with Sarah Schoemann. NYU PolyTech. Brooklyn, NY. 26 – 27 April.
(2011) Chief Conference Organizer. GRIDLOCK: Cultural Analysis and Theory 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference. Stony Brook University. New York, NY. 14 – 15 October.
(2011) Co-Organizer. 4th Annual Queer Symposium. Co-organized with Jennifer Carter. Stony Brook University. Stony Brook, NY. 17 March.
(2010) Keynote Coordinator. Recycling: The Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies 1st Annual Graduate Student Conference. Stony Brook University. New York, NY. 24 – 25 September.
EDITORIAL POSITIONS, RESEARCH POSITIONS AND ADVISORY BOARDS
(current) Vice-Chair of Meetings, Special Interest Group in Computing, Information and Society.
(current) Co-founding and Managing Editor, ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories.
(current) Co-founder, Game Archaeology Lab, Georgia Tech.
(2015-2017) Managing Editor, Journal of Visual Culture
(2014 — current) Advisory Board Member. Softalk Apple Preservation Project.
(2008 — 2015) Editorial Assistant, Journal of Visual Culture
(2010 — 2014) Collection Assistant, William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection, Stony Brook University Special Collections
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Georgia Institute of Technology
Project Studio: Visualizing Computer History (Fall 2016)
Media Archaeology (Graduate Level: Spring 2016, Fall 2017)
Principles of Information Design (Spring 2016, Spring 2017)
Game Design as Cultural Practice (Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017)
New York University
Video Games: Culture and Industry (Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015)
Stony Brook University
Introduction to Cinema and Cultural Studies (Summer 2009, Summer 2011, Summer 2012)
Gender and Genre in Film (Summer 2010)
Video Games and Culture, co-taught with Raiford Guins (Spring 2011)
William Paterson University
History of Modern Design (Spring 2012)
Publication and Design (Fall 2012)
Kansas State University
Introduction to Argumentative Writing (Spring 2005)
Introduction to Expository Writing (Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Spring 2006)
Suffolk County Community College
Mythology (Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2013)
WEB, MULTIMEDIA AND DESIGN PROJECTS
(2016) “Welcome to The Print Shop.” Interactive Art Installation, Where Tech Meets Art. Eyedrum. Atlanta, GA. 30 April.
(2014) “Inventory Objects.” Series Curator, Video Game Art Archive. Tumblr-based image archive.
(2009 — 2014) pulsations: the journal of new african writing, literary journal. Design and Production Manager. Stony Brook University.
(2012) When Games Went Click: The Tennis for Two Story, short documentary. Production Assistant. Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Labs.
MEDIA COVERAGE AND INTERVIEWS
(2017) “History at GDC: Laine Nooney on Sierra On-Line and Video Game History.” Interviewed by Robert Whitaker. History Respawned. 8 March.
(2016) "The History of Sierra On-Line." Interviewed by Brian McCollough. Internet History Podcast. 5 June.
(2016) “How Early Computer Games Influenced Internet Culture.” Interviewed by Adrienne LaFrance. The Atlantic. 14 April.
(2015) “Open Apple #49.” Interviewed by Quinn Dunki and Mike MaGinnis. Open Apple.
(2015) “Here's Why We Banned the Internet.” Interviewed by Rose Eveleth. Meanwhile in the Future. 23 June.
(2013) “Dad? Where's Mom? I Can't Find Her in this Videogame.” Interviewed by Nina Freeman. Killscreen. 7 August.
(2013) “The Mother of Computer Video Games.” Interviewed by David Brancaccio. Marketplace Tech Report. 6 March.
(2012) “The Anatomy of a Meme.” Interviewed by Cassandra Khaw. TechHive. 23 August.
SERVICE AND PROFESSIONALIZATION
Peer Review Referee
Kinephanos
Well Played
Feminist Media History
Feminist Media Studies
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Technology and Culture
Professional Committees and Departmental Service
(2016) M.S Admissions Committee, Program in Digital Media, Georgia Tech. Atlanta, GA.
(2015) Ph.D. Admissions Committee, Program in Digital Media, Georgia Tech. Atlanta, GA.
(2015) SIGCIS Executive Committee.
(2012) Hiring Committee Graduate Student Representative. Stony Brook University. Stony Brook, NY.
(2008) Co-Organizer. Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies Colloquium. Co-organized with Lyudmila Razumova. Stony Brook University. Stony Brook, NY.
Trainings
(2012) "Safe Space Foundations" Workshop, Stony Brook University Center for Prevention and Outreach, Stony Brook, NY.
LANGUAGES AND PROGRAMS
Read and Translate: German, Old English.
Program Familiarity: Photoshop (Advanced), InDesign (Advanced), QuarkXPress (Advanced), Illustrator (Intermediate), HTML and CSS (Beginner), Javascript (Beginner).
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Society for the History of Technology
Special Interest Group for Computing, Information and Society
American Studies Association
(present) Assistant Professor of Digital Media, School of Literature, Media and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology
(2014-2015) Postdoctoral Researcher, Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
EDUCATION
(2014) Ph.D. Cultural Studies, Women's and Gender Studies Certificate, Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory, Stony Brook University
Dissertation Title: “Sierra On-Line and the Archaeology of Video Game History”
(2006) M.A. English—Cultural Studies, Department of English, Kansas State University
(2004) B.F.A., University of Dayton, Graphic Design, Minor in History
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
(2017) “Let’s Begin Again: Sierra On-Line and the ‘Origins’ of the Graphical Adventure Game.” American Journal of Play. 9(1). [forthcoming]
(2013) “A Pedestal, A Table, A Love Letter: Archaeologies of Gender in Video Game History.” Game Studies. 13(2).
Guest-Edited Journal Issues
(2014) Laine Nooney and Laura Portwood-Stacer, eds. Journal of Visual Culture. Special Issue: Internet Memes and Visual Culture. 13(3) (forthcoming December).
Encyclopedia Entries and Short Essays
(2016) “Menu.” In Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon. Eds. Raiford Guins and Henry Lowood. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
(2014) Laine Nooney and Laura Portwood-Stacer. “One Does Not Simply Write About Memes: Introduction to the Special Issue.” Journal of Visual Culture. Special Issue: Internet Memes and Visual Culture. 13(3).
(2013) “Easter Eggs.” In Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media and Textuality. Eds. Lori Emerson, Marie-Laure Ryan and Benjamin Robertson. Johns Hopkins University Press.
(2011) Laine Nooney and Raiford Guins. “Videogames.” In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Film and Media Studies. Ed. Krin Gabbard. New York: Oxford University Press.
In Preparation
Before We Were Gamers: Forgetting and Remembering an Industry's Dawn. [book manuscript]
"On Footwork: Getting Lost in the Local." Game History and the Local. Melaine Swalwell, Ed. [chapter in edited volume]
"When Indie Games Came in Ziploc Bags." [journal article]
Web and Editorial Publications
(2014) "The Odd History of the First Erotic Computer Game." The Atlantic. 2 December.
(2012) “1980s Lifehacking Software for Ladies, Gloria Steinem-Approved.” The Vault @ Slate.com. 14 November.
(2010) “Screening Her Out: Computer, Gaming, History.” Paperweight: A Newspaper of Visual and Material Culture. 1(1).
AWARDS, GRANTS AND HONORS
(2016) GT-Mini Fire Grant for “Digital Pasts, Digital Futures Speaker Series.” Georgia Tech Office of Sponsored Programs. Atlanta, GA. Co-submitted with GT Libraries retroTECH. $1250.
(2016) Association for Computing Machinery Oral History Workshop (Competitive Honor). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 11 – 13 May.
(2015) Conference Grants-in-Aid Proposal. NYU Center for the Humanities. New York, NY. Co-submitted with Erica Robles-Anderson and Shari Wolk. $4,000.
(2014) Softalk Apple Project Researcher of the Year Award.
(2014) Strong Research Fellowship. Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, NY. $1,000.
(2013) Faculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship Award, Stony Brook University Graduate School. $10,000.
(2012) Distinguished Travel Award, The Graduate Student Organization at Stony Brook University. $975.
(2012) Graduate Student Employees Union Professional Development Award. $750.
(2012) Provost's Graduate Student Lecture Series (Competitive Honor). Stony Brook University.
(2012) National Meeting Travel Grant, Society for the History of Technology. $700.
(2012) 2nd annual Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies (Competitive Honor). Princeton University. 17 – 23 June 2012.
(2012) Douglas A. Noverr Grant for Collection Enhancement for Institutions to Build Popular Culture and American Culture Research Collections, Popular Culture Association. Co- submitted with Raiford Guins and Kristen Nyitray for the William A. Higinbotham Video Game Collection. $5,000.
(2011) Michael Schoenecke Travel Grant for Graduate Students to the National Conference, Popular Culture Association. $300.
(2007) 2nd Annual Winterhouse International Student Award for Design Writing & Criticism, sponsored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. $1000.
(2007) Graduate Fellowship (6 years), Stony Brook University Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies Department.
(2005) Cultural Studies Essay Award, Kansas State University English Department.
(2004) Graduate Fellowship (2 years), Kansas State University English Department.
INVITED LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Invited Keynotes and Independent Lectures
(2017) Techniques of the Corporation. University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada. “On Footwork: How to Get People Talking in a Town that Wants to Forget.” 5 May.
(2017) Game Developer's Conference. Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA. "Save Yourself: Game History is in Your Hands." 1 March.
(2016) PRACTICE: Game Design in Detail. New York University. New York, NY. “On the Politics of Tools.” 11-13 November.
(2016) NYU Game Center. New York University. New York, NY. “When Indie Games Came in Ziploc Bags.” 14 April.
(2015) Institute for Public Knowledge. New York University. New York, NY. “Video Game History at the Kitchen Table.” 30 October.
(2014) School for Poetic Computation. New York, NY. “How the Computer Became Personal.” 3 December.
(2014) Umea University. HUMlab, Umea, Sweden. “The Long Now of Gamergate: How Game History Became Game Culture.” 25 November.
(2013) Michigan Technical University. Houghton, MI. “How We Compute History: Women, Computers and Gaming in the 1980s Household.” 5 November.
(2013) K-State Book Network: Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One. Kansas State University. “Girls Had Game: Locating a History of Women's Play We Forgot to Remember.” 27 September.
(2013) Personal Best: A Series on Feminist Game Design Practices. Game Center, New York University. “Before We Were 'Gamers': Roberta Williams, Sierra On-Line and How We Write Women into Video Game History.” 26 March.
(2011) Women's Week. Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY. “The Mythic Function of Lady Gaga: Playing the Witch in Popular Music and Culture.” 29 March.
Invited Panels and Responses
(2015) “Tables, Teapots, and a Tartan Couch: Media Archaeology and Computer Histories.” Invited Speaker. Babycastles, New York, New York. 8 May.
(2015) “Technology as Art and Digital Curation.” Invited Panelist. FACETS. 2 May.
(2015) WordHack X. Invited Speaker. Babycastles, New York, New York. "Genealogies of the Text Adventure." 16 April.
(2014) Introduction to Game Analysis Book Launch. Invited Respondent. Game Center, New York University. Brooklyn, NY. 6 November.
(2014) Indiecade. Invited Speaker. Carson City, CA. “The Lost History of Softporn Adventure.” 12 October.
(2014) Yellow Thread Society. Invited Speaker. New York, New York. 27 May.
(2013) Grassroots Game Conference. Invited Panelist. Philadelphia, PA. “Remembering Play Differently.” 16 October.
(2013) Hack'n Jill Build N' Play. Invited Panelist. Gilt Groupe, New York. “Game Culture, Game History.” 10 September.
Workshop Participation
(2015) “Diversifying Barbie and Mortal Kombat.” Invited Participant. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. 24-25 April.
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
Panels Organized
(2017) Command Lines: Software, Power and Performance. Computer History Museum. Mountain View, CA. “Tools, Techniques and Communities: Oral History in Software History.” 18 March.
(2016) Society for the History of Technology. Singapore. “Making Games Go: Hardware and Software at the Intersection of Computer and Game History.” Co-organized with Jacob Gaboury. 24 June.
(2015) Theorizing the Web. New York, New York. “Meme, Medium, Mode.” Co-organized with Laura Portwood-Stacer. 18 April.
(2015) Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada. “How Computing Became Personal: Genealogies of
Computer Culture.” Co-organized with Joy Rankin. 29 March.
(2013) American Studies Association. Washington, DC. “Producing Play: Labor and Leisure in Early Video Game Culture.” 24 November.
(2013) Society for the History of Technology. Portland, MA. “Gaming the History of Technology.” Co-organized with Jacob Gaboury. 11 October.
(2013) Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. “New/Media/Archaeologies: Extensions and Interventions in Media Archaeology Methods.” 7 March.
Conference Presentations and Workshops
(2016) Society for Literature, Science and the Arts. Atlanta, GA. “On Footwork: How to Get People Talking in a Town that Wants to Forget.” 3 November.
(2016) Extending Play 3. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ. “In the Beginning the World was Flat: Notes on the Sierra On-Line Game Engine.” 31 September.
(2016) SIGCIS Annual Workshop. Singapore. “Local Data, Local Users: A Case Study in Data Visualization for Computer History with Softalk.” Co-written with Kevin Driscoll. 26 June.
(2016) Society for the History of Technology. Singapore. “Puzzling Engines: Game Design and Software Innovation at Sierra On-Line in the 1980s.” 24 June.
(2016) Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Atlanta, GA. “What the Engine Can't Reveal: The Other Lives of Sierra On-Line's AGI Development Software.” 31 March.
(2016) Hands On History. London, England. “Re-Circulating Softalk: Cross-Sector Collaboration for the Visualization and Re-enactment of American Apple II Culture.” Co-presented with Kevin Driscoll. 8 February.
(2015) SIGCIS Annual Workshop. Albuquerque, NM. “The Infrastructure of Expertise, or What Game Engines Allow.” 11 October.
(2015) Extending Play. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. “Destined to Repeat Itself: The Rise and Fall of “Indie” Games, 1979-1984.” 18 April.
(2014) Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Invited Participant. Seattle, WA. “Queer and Feminist Platform Studies Workshop.” 20 March.
(2014) IndieCade East. Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY. “When Indie Games Came in Ziploc Bags.” 15 February.
(2013) American Studies Association. Washington, DC. “Home Productivity: Domestic Labor, Game Development, and the Making of Sierra On-Line.” 24 November.
(2013) Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting. Portland, MA. “Competition or Camaraderie?: A Cultural History of the Early 1980s West Coast Microcomputer Game Software Industry.” 10 October.
(2013) First International History of Games Conference. Montreal, Canada. “More Games for Mother: Roberta Williams, Sierra On-Line, and the Domestic Contexts of 1980s Computer Gaming.” 22 June.
(2013) Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. “Materialist Methods for Mystery House(s): A Feminist Media Archaeology of Video Games.” 7 March.
(2012) Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting. Copenhagen, Denmark. “Home is Where the Game Is: A Cultural History of Sierra On-Line and Women's Computer Gaming.” 5 October.
(2012) Critical Themes in Media Studies Graduate Student Conference. New School for Social Research. New York, NY. “Between Cold Gazes and Vital Bodies: Considering Neomaterial Feminist Media Archaeology.” 14 April.
(2012) Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Boston, MA. “Calculating the Kitchen: Domestic Space as Computer History.” 25 March.
(2011) Stony Brook Graduate Conference. Stony Brook University. New York, NY. “When the Digital Never Looked So Analog: A Media Archaeology of Retro Camera Cell Phone Apps.” Co- presented with David Smucker. 11 March.
(2011) Popular Culture Association National Conference. San Antonio, TX. “On the Edge of Her Screen: A New Domestic History of Computers and Computer Games.” 21 April.
(2010) Women and Gender Studies Graduate Conference: Cycles. Stony Brook University, New York, New York. “Mobile Women, Bipedal Bodies: Women and Technology in 1890s Ladies' Home Journal Advertisements.” 13 March.
(2009) Popular Culture Association Conference National Conference. New Orleans, LA. “Speaking the Parser: Disordered Language and the Adventure-Game.” 9 April.
(2008) Queer Symposium. Stony Brook University. Stony Brook, NY. “Welcome to the Genderfuck: Sex, Gender and Video Games.” 14 March.
(2007) Cultural Studies Conference: Entertainment! Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS. “Have You Ever Tried Not Being a Mutant?: Queer Negativity and the Question of Citizenship in the X-Men Films.” 8 March.
(2006) American Institute of Graphic Arts Design Education Conference: Design Frontier. Denver, CO. “Marking Territory in a Lonely Frontier: Graphic Design Research in an English Department” and “Guns, Gays and Swastikas: Questions of Design Power.” Co- presented with Prof. Jayne Matlack-Whitaker and Emily Wallace. 2 December.
(2005) English Department Graduate Student Colloquium. Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. “No Comment: The Silence of the Swastika in Graphic Design History.” 8 April.
(2005) English Graduate Organization Conference. University of Florida. Gainsville, FL. “Dead Silence: Cultural Theory, Graphic Design History and the Silence of the Swastika.” 27 October.
(2005) Cultural Studies Association. Tucson, AZ. “Consuming the Head: Mind, Body, and Gender Reproduction in Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs.” 22 April.
(2005) Cultural Studies Conference. Emporia State University. Emporia, KS. “Baudry Visits the Satellite of Love: Cinema, Ideology and Apparatus in Mystery Science Theater 3000.” 11 February.
(2005) Cultural Studies Conference: Visual Culture. Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS. “Low Resolution, No Resolution: Power, Responsibility, and Experiments in Graphic Design Masochism.” 10 March.
Conference Organization
(2017) Conference Co-Organizer. “Command Lines: Software, Power and Performance.” Computer History Museum. Co-Organized as part of SIGCIS Conferences Committee. 18 – 19 March.
(2016 — 2017) Speaker Series Co-Organizer. “Digital Pasts, Digital Futures.” Georgia Tech. Co-organized with GT Libraries retroTECH.
(2015-2016) Designer and Producer. Mistakes Were Made: Computer History, Decompiled. Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University. 17 April 2015; 15 April 2016.
(2013) Conference Assistant. International Video Game History Conference. Montreal, Canada. 21 – 23 June.
(2013) Conference Co-Organizer. Different Games: A Conference on Diversity, Difference and Inclusivity in Games and Culture. Co-organized with Sarah Schoemann. NYU PolyTech. Brooklyn, NY. 26 – 27 April.
(2011) Chief Conference Organizer. GRIDLOCK: Cultural Analysis and Theory 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference. Stony Brook University. New York, NY. 14 – 15 October.
(2011) Co-Organizer. 4th Annual Queer Symposium. Co-organized with Jennifer Carter. Stony Brook University. Stony Brook, NY. 17 March.
(2010) Keynote Coordinator. Recycling: The Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies 1st Annual Graduate Student Conference. Stony Brook University. New York, NY. 24 – 25 September.
EDITORIAL POSITIONS, RESEARCH POSITIONS AND ADVISORY BOARDS
(current) Vice-Chair of Meetings, Special Interest Group in Computing, Information and Society.
(current) Co-founding and Managing Editor, ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories.
(current) Co-founder, Game Archaeology Lab, Georgia Tech.
(2015-2017) Managing Editor, Journal of Visual Culture
(2014 — current) Advisory Board Member. Softalk Apple Preservation Project.
(2008 — 2015) Editorial Assistant, Journal of Visual Culture
(2010 — 2014) Collection Assistant, William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection, Stony Brook University Special Collections
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Georgia Institute of Technology
Project Studio: Visualizing Computer History (Fall 2016)
Media Archaeology (Graduate Level: Spring 2016, Fall 2017)
Principles of Information Design (Spring 2016, Spring 2017)
Game Design as Cultural Practice (Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017)
New York University
Video Games: Culture and Industry (Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015)
Stony Brook University
Introduction to Cinema and Cultural Studies (Summer 2009, Summer 2011, Summer 2012)
Gender and Genre in Film (Summer 2010)
Video Games and Culture, co-taught with Raiford Guins (Spring 2011)
William Paterson University
History of Modern Design (Spring 2012)
Publication and Design (Fall 2012)
Kansas State University
Introduction to Argumentative Writing (Spring 2005)
Introduction to Expository Writing (Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Spring 2006)
Suffolk County Community College
Mythology (Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2013)
WEB, MULTIMEDIA AND DESIGN PROJECTS
(2016) “Welcome to The Print Shop.” Interactive Art Installation, Where Tech Meets Art. Eyedrum. Atlanta, GA. 30 April.
(2014) “Inventory Objects.” Series Curator, Video Game Art Archive. Tumblr-based image archive.
(2009 — 2014) pulsations: the journal of new african writing, literary journal. Design and Production Manager. Stony Brook University.
(2012) When Games Went Click: The Tennis for Two Story, short documentary. Production Assistant. Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Labs.
MEDIA COVERAGE AND INTERVIEWS
(2017) “History at GDC: Laine Nooney on Sierra On-Line and Video Game History.” Interviewed by Robert Whitaker. History Respawned. 8 March.
(2016) "The History of Sierra On-Line." Interviewed by Brian McCollough. Internet History Podcast. 5 June.
(2016) “How Early Computer Games Influenced Internet Culture.” Interviewed by Adrienne LaFrance. The Atlantic. 14 April.
(2015) “Open Apple #49.” Interviewed by Quinn Dunki and Mike MaGinnis. Open Apple.
(2015) “Here's Why We Banned the Internet.” Interviewed by Rose Eveleth. Meanwhile in the Future. 23 June.
(2013) “Dad? Where's Mom? I Can't Find Her in this Videogame.” Interviewed by Nina Freeman. Killscreen. 7 August.
(2013) “The Mother of Computer Video Games.” Interviewed by David Brancaccio. Marketplace Tech Report. 6 March.
(2012) “The Anatomy of a Meme.” Interviewed by Cassandra Khaw. TechHive. 23 August.
SERVICE AND PROFESSIONALIZATION
Peer Review Referee
Kinephanos
Well Played
Feminist Media History
Feminist Media Studies
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Technology and Culture
Professional Committees and Departmental Service
(2016) M.S Admissions Committee, Program in Digital Media, Georgia Tech. Atlanta, GA.
(2015) Ph.D. Admissions Committee, Program in Digital Media, Georgia Tech. Atlanta, GA.
(2015) SIGCIS Executive Committee.
(2012) Hiring Committee Graduate Student Representative. Stony Brook University. Stony Brook, NY.
(2008) Co-Organizer. Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies Colloquium. Co-organized with Lyudmila Razumova. Stony Brook University. Stony Brook, NY.
Trainings
(2012) "Safe Space Foundations" Workshop, Stony Brook University Center for Prevention and Outreach, Stony Brook, NY.
LANGUAGES AND PROGRAMS
Read and Translate: German, Old English.
Program Familiarity: Photoshop (Advanced), InDesign (Advanced), QuarkXPress (Advanced), Illustrator (Intermediate), HTML and CSS (Beginner), Javascript (Beginner).
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Society for the History of Technology
Special Interest Group for Computing, Information and Society
American Studies Association
