Faculty
Jim Sosnoski, Professor
James J. Sosnoski is the author of Token Professionals and Master Critics: A Critique of Orthodoxy in Literary Studies, and Modern Skeletons in Postmodern Closets: A Cultural Studies Alternative, as well as various essays on instructional technology, computer-assisted pedagogy, and online collaboration. With David Downing, he co-edited “The Geography of Cyberspace,” “Conversations in Honor of James Berlin,” and “The TicToc Conversations” -- special issues of Works and Days. He was the Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange (1982-86), the Director of the Group for Research into the Institutionalization and Professionalization of Literary Studies (82-4) and the TicToc project (96-97), a collaborative effort to bring together experts in technology with the members of the English Department at UIC to develop an online work environment. He has been a member of the MLA's Delegate Assembly, Ethics Committee, and Emerging Technologies Committee. He is currently coordinating the Virtual Harlem project, an instructional technology project using virtual reality scenarios. His research focus is on the role of virtual experiences in interpersonal understanding. He is working on a book entitled Configuring: The Art of Understanding Virtual Worlds.
- Ph.D., English; Penn State University
- Email: sosnoski@uic.edu
- Personal Web Site
- Also see: Communication as a Cognitive Science
- Phone: 312.413.5406
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
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