We here at EMAC are excited to announce that this fall Kim Knight will be joining the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Emerging Media. Kim’s research interests are in viral media, online community & identity formation, and the role of “play” in knowledge construction. She comes to Dallas from the University of California, Santa Barbara where she wrote a dissertation entitled, “Media Epidemics: Viral Structures in Literature and New Media.” As part of her diverse and extensive research Kim worked on both the Transliteracies Project and The Agrippa Files. In addition to her scholarly work Kim is also a practitioner, working in WordPress, MediaWiki, Drupal, and building her own visualization tools for analyzing Emerging Media.

You can follow Kim as PurpleKimchi on Twitter (no, I have no idea what that user handle means), and share with her your advice about joining EMAC, being at UTD, moving to Dallas, & ask her questions about Star Wars (for those that are so inclined). When we have it finalized we will list here what courses Kim will be teaching in the fall.