Henry Patrick Coburn
M: (UK) +44 7874 035 797 (US) +1 805 971 9974
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PhD candidate from Cambridge, UK with specialties in Narrative Theory, 20th-Century and contemporary literature, Digital Humanities and Shakespeare in the 20th Century. Winner of the 2019 Arthur Terry Postgraduate Essay Prize and proficient in written and spoken Arabic, French and Spanish and TEI HTML, CSS and Python coding languages.
Higher Education
University of California, Santa Barbara 2019 –
PhD in English Literature expected July 2024.
Goldsmith’s College, University of London 2018 – 2019
MA in Comparative Literature, Pass with Distinction obtained in Oct 2019.
Trinity College, Cambridge University 2013 – 2016
BA in English Literature obtained in June 2016.
Dissertation
‘Mood Swings: Subjunctive Decline and the 20th Century’s Fictions of Certainty’
Classes Taught
ENGL 193 – ‘Detective Fiction,’ Summer Session B 2023
Co-Taught ENGL 146AI – ‘Critical AI’ with Prof. Rita Raley, Fall 2023
RA-ships: The Catalyst magazine, student-edited creative writing and graphic design, 2022-3
and the Transcriptions Centre for Information studies and Literature, 2023-4
TA-ships:
ENGL 10 – ‘Introduction to Literature,’ Winter 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2023, Winter 2024
INT 35LT – ‘Experiencing Shakespeare,’ Summer Session B 2020 and 2022
ENGL 105B – ‘Shakespeare’s Later Plays,’ Winter 2021
ENGL 25 – ‘Literature and Information Media,’ Spring 2021
ENGL 15 – ‘Introduction to Shakespeare,’ Fall 2021
ENGL 105A- ‘Shakespeare’s Early Plays,’ Winter 2022
ENGL 122FE – ‘Fantasy and Ecology,’ Spring 2022
ENGL 192SF – ‘Science Fiction,’ Fall 2022
ENGL 104A – ‘American Literature 1900–,’ Spring 2023
Digital Projects
Company VR – [interactive experience in Unity] 2020; AMNESIAC– [interactive mystery in JavaScript] 2021; Mutiny on the Batavia – [historical fiction in Twine] 2022; Minotaur – [interactive mystery in Twine] 2023.
Completed ‘Programming for the Humanities’ and ‘Digital Editions: Start to Finish’ courses by Texas A&M’s Centre of Digital Humanities Programming4Humanists, May 2021, Dec 2022.
HASTAC Scholar – 2020– : Participant in Digital Humanities community responsible for blog posts, book reviews and community networking.
Research and Activism Bibliography (RAB) archival project with Prof. Alan Liu, 2022.
Recited Verse – Virtual Residency, April-May 2022. Project: ‘TS Eliot and the Wheel of Time.’ Responsible for creating and sharing content for online platform for oral recitations of poetry.
Conference Presentations
‘Eat Your Words’ – Indiana University at Bloomington, February 2020: ‘Strange Fillings: The Horror of an Honest Hunger for the Unknown Pie’
‘Sense and Consensus’ – Berkeley/Stanford, April 2020: ‘Paul is Dead: Conspiracy-Consensus-Continuum’
‘Digital Culture from Below: 1500-1800’ – Early Modern Centre UCSB, May 2022: ‘Numinous Spaces’
‘Fact, Fiction: Trust and Distrust’ – 2nd Digital Humanities Symposium, Tilburg School of Humanities & Digital Sciences at Tilburg University, June 2022: ‘Mood Swings: The Subjunctive across Literary History’
‘On the Margins’ – Hypertext Conference, University of London, December 2022: ‘Mutiny on the Batavia: History as Symphony’
Publications
‘The word shark looks like a shark: Black Bodies, Signifiers, Silhouettes,’ Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, 2023.
‘Linear Multiform: A Cognitive Model for E-Fiction,’ under review at the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia.
References
Alan Liu – ayliu@english.ucsb.edu – Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Bishnupriya Ghosh – bghosh@english.ucsb.edu – Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sowon Park – sowonpark@ucsb.edu – Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
