Fashioning Circuits is a scholarly site created by a team of researchers in the program in Emerging Media and Communication at the University of Texas, Dallas.

Current Team:

Kim A. Knight

• Project leader, Editor, Site administrator.
• Assistant Professor, Emerging Media and Communication, UT Dallas.
• Twitter: purplekimchi; Websites: kimknight.com, The Spiral Dance
• Research Interests:
  • viral media, identity and media, amateurism, new media art, pop culture, pedagogical uses of emerging media, etc.

Rashundra Harvey

• General editor: Spring 2013
• Graduate student, Emerging Media and Communication, UT Dallas.

Lesley Henderson

• General editor: Spring 2013
• Graduate student, Emerging Media and Communication, UT Dallas.

Desiree Jacob

Max Mechanic

• General editor: Spring 2013
• Graduate student, Emerging Media and Communication, UT Dallas.

Patti McLetchie

• General editor: Spring 2013
• Undergraduate student, Emerging Media and Communication, UT Dallas.
• Twitter: pattimick88
• Research interests: body image issues as they relate to our culture and media, fashion’s role on an individuals identity, encouraging young women to get into the STEM fields.

Janet Montealvo

• General editor: Spring 2012
• Graduate student, Emerging Media and Communication, UT Dallas
• Twitter: janetmtweets
• Research interests: new media in fashion, fashion journalism, identity and social media

Brianni Nelson

• General editor: Fall 2011, Spring 2012.
• Graduate student, Emerging Media and Communication, UT Dallas.
• Twitter: brianninelson; Website: Sense and Accessibility
• Research Interests:
  • race, class and identity in new media / viral media / remediation and copyright

Michelle Ofiwe

• General editor: Spring 2013
• Undergraduate student, UT Dallas.

Tameka Reeves

• General editor: Fall 2011, Spring 2012.
• Graduate student, Emerging Media and Communication, UT Dallas.
• Twitter: ohsomeka
• Research interests
  • Race, class,and identity in emerging media; Digital media for and by Women; Marketing and digital rhetoric; Fashion (and other representations of the self) in emerging media

Mary E. Skinner

• General editor: Spring 2012
• Graduate student, Emerging Media and Communication, UT Dallas.
• Twitter: maryeskinner
• Research Interests:  social media for the greater good, marketing, fashion and identity

Chelsea Upton

• General editor: Spring 2013
• Undergraduate student, Emerging Media and Communication, UT Dallas.

 

Past Editors

Elisa Pequini

• General editor: Fall 2011.
• Graduate student, Emerging Media and Communication, UT Dallas.
• Twitter: lipequini
• Research Interests:  fashion in new media/ identity in new media

Amy Pickup

• General editor, Banner designer: Fall 2011, Spring 2012
• Graduate student, Emerging Media and Communication, UT Dallas.
• Twitter: amypickup
• Research Interests: Mobile Technology, Web development and UXD, Identity, Copyright/Intellectual Property law with regards to new media

Mattie Tanner

• General editor, Banner designer: Fall 2011, Spring 2012.
• Graduate student, Emerging Media and Communication, UT Dallas.
• Twitter: missnesbitpro
• Research interests: media’s effect on reality and media’s representations of it, remediation, copyright and remixing, fandom communities, online vs. real life identity