The Society for Literature, Science and the Arts is my main conference, as it offers the most vast and venerable collection of scholars, theorists, and artists working in cyborg studies and post-evolution. The Society journal, Configurations, is a particularly useful resource.

The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) is a newer society for which I am the Chair of the Technology Division this year (New York City, May 2008), and had my first experience organizing national panels when I performed that role at least year's conference (April 2007) in Portland, Oregon, at Portland State University.

I maintain membership, and have presented at the annual conference for the American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Association, which has a very active division for Literature and Science. These organizations publish the Journal of American Culture, and the Journal of Popular Culture. Check out also this Literature and Science web page put together by Prof. Ian Roberts, Chair of the ACA Literature and Science Division.

I am also a Referee for the journal, The Information Society.

A few years ago, I created a website, Punk Inquiry and Study Site (P.I.S.S.), which was intended to be a collaborative site through which a scholarly, or not so scholarly, discussion of punk could take place. With the help of Justin Bard, a former student, the site was given a new look and had some new material written, but has been in neglect more or less since. If you are interested in collaborating (or, if you're a Westfield student interested in an independent study to work on the site) please let me know.

Each fall I attend the College Music Journal (CMJ) Music Marathon in New York City. As advisor to WSKB, the Westfield State College radio station, I accompany the student station directors to this conference that features panels and workshops on the music and film industry, a film festival, and hundreds of musical shows in Greenwich Village nightclubs and other venues around the city. As a cultural studies scholar, this annual trip helps me keep current on the latest in cultural production in music and film. It also gets me to New York for the great art museums at least once a year.

I have experience as Assistant Editor, and have published a few times in the politcally progressive journal, Fiction International, which is edited by Harold Jaffe, an alternative press writer who directed my MFA work at San Diego State University (1990-1996). I have published many reviews and a long article about his work in the last dozen years or so.

The links to the left provide more detail about my current conference activities, related web sites I have created, and some of the journals in which my critcal work and book reviews appear.