Contemporary American Literature, New Media. First Stage.

P.J. is keenly interested in literature as it relates to technology generally, and to materiality, cyberculture, and the cyborg in particular. She also enjoys studying the history of technologies of literary production. P.J.’s UCLA English Departmental Honors thesis was entitled “All in the Framing: An Examination of Paratexts in Danielewski’s House of Leaves and Jackson’s Patchwork Girl.” Ever the eclectic literature scholar, her interests expand to include literature as performance, critical theory, American religious history (especially premillennialist and mystical movements), linguistics, cognitive science, and creativity studies. When she’s not studying or downloading the latest episode of Lost, P.J. enjoys reading, writing, tending her container garden, and watching NASCAR. BA, UCLA, 2006; AA, Pasadena City College, 2003.

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