Conference Assistants

• Melissa Stevenson, Graduate Student, UC Santa Barbara English Department. Stevenson is the main research assistant for Conference 2005: UCSB Conversation Roundtables on Online Reading. Her interests include contemporary American literature, cultural studies, film theory, new media studies, short fiction, and children’s literature. She is completing a dissertation titled Conversations with Ghosts and Machines: Encounters with Technology and the (Re)definition of the Human in 20th Century Science Fiction about the shifting definition of humanity in response to technological change across the twentieth century.
• Gerald Egan, Graduate Student, UC Santa Barbara English Department. Egan is the technology research assistant for Conference 2005: UCSB Conversation Roundtables on Online Reading. His interests include 19th century British literature, print culture and the history and materiality of the book, and electronic text and images.
• Other conference research assistants: James Hodge (graduate student, English, UCSB), Kimberly Knight (graduate student, English, UCSB), Lisa Swanstrom (graduate student, Comparative Literature, UCSB)

Other Support

• Finances: Karen Cisneros, Financial Assistant, English Dept., UCSB
• Technical Support: Brian Reynolds, Computer Systems Specialist, English Dept., UCSB
• Television: Ray Tracy, Production Manager, Principal Producer/Director, Televlision Services, Instructional Resources, UCSB
• Sound and Carpentry: Kevin Kelly, Senior Producer/Director, Sound Recording, Instructional Resources, UCSB