Gustav Verhulsdonck
New Mexico State University
Department of English
MSC 3E, PO Box 30001
(505) 646-3931
gustav@nmsu.edu

Hello and welcome to the website of Gustav Verhulsdonck. Thanks for visiting!

Currently, I am a doctoral student here at New Mexico State University pursuing my degree in Rhetoric and Professional Communication. In addition, I teach English 218, Technical and Scientific Communication (to go there, click on the links above).

My research interests currently are how digital media and information culture effect a reconfiguring of traditional models of knowledge and discourse. I am specifically interested in investigating how issues of New Media can be developed using the lens of critical theory. In addition, I am interested in website development and animation.

The groundwork for my current research interest was prepared when I wrote my master's thesis on how cybernetic technology in William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer represented an altering of the traditional systems of knowledge and representation. During a stay at another university, I participated in a project that used the Half-Life SDK to recreate three-dimensional computer-generated environments for Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. This has led me to ask more specific questions regarding the nature of computer technology and its effects on us as humans. More specifically, I am interested in pursuing the question of how new media technologies (such as the Internet) redraw the traditional boundaries between writer, text, and reader, and how new media alter our perception of texts and their production and consumption.

In the future, I hope to be working more on creating collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) for both pedagogical means and in doing research, as well as learn more about webdesign using Dreamweaver and Flash.

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