About
Sam is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Comparative Literature. His research centers on the aesthetics and environmental politics of disposability, particularly as it relates to both material refuse (i.e., trash) as well as to emergent forms of digital ephemera. He is more broadly interested in literatures of the internet, digital culture, contemporary poetry and poetics, critical infrastructure studies, the content feed, and ecocriticism. Sam is also enrolled in the Digital Studies Institute's graduate certifcate program in Digital Studies.
Education:
M.A., Comparative Literature & Intercultural Studies, University of Georgia, 2019
B.A., English (Literary Studies), Georgia State University, 2017
B.A., Spanish (Language, Culture & Society), Georgia State University, 2017
Interests: digital culture, 20th- & 21st-century poetics, material culture & garbology, critical infrastructure studies, literature and the environment
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Korean (Novice), French (Reading)