Candidates: SLSA 2019 Election

Standing for: Election is for a two-year position as Member-at-large, serving fall 2019-2021

    • N. Adriana Knouf
    • Name: N. Adriana Knouf
    • Candidate Statement:

      As both a media scholar and media artist, I’ve found SLSA to be one of the few academic venues that really values the varied natures of my practices. I’ve come to the conferences on a regular basis since 2007, and consider SLSA to be one of my “must-attend” conferences of the year, not only because of the multifarious intellectual conversations that happen, but also because of the people that I meet that turn into interlocutors and friends. If elected to the member-at-large position I would like to further highlight the work done by artists and scholar-artists, building upon the already excellent exhibition program and artists talks. As a queer transgender woman I’d also want to work to elevate the work of other trans SLSA members, especially queer and trans people of color (QTPOC). I am currently an Assistant Professor of Art + Design at Northeastern University, in Boston, MA, and previously worked in the Cinema and Media Studies program at Wellesley College.

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    • Adam Nocek
    • Name: Adam Nocek
    • Candidate Statement:

      I am interested in being considered for the position of member at large in the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. I have been presenting papers and chairing panels at the SLSA since my first years in graduate school at the University of Washington; this experience has helped me to build strong networks (of scholars and practitioners) that have been vital to my academic career. It is thanks to enriching and sustained intellectual engagements at the SLSA that I was able to land my first tenure-track position in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University in 2015. Since that time, I co-organized the 2017 SLSA in Tempe, Arizona and continue to present papers, chair panels, and participate on roundtables at annual conferences. In 2018, I became the founding director of the Center for Philosophical Technologies at ASU (which works at the intersection of STS, design, and art methods). If elected, I would leverage this administrative position to help foster new intellectual and institutional partnerships with the SLSA organization.

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