Patrick Jagoda
Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, published Comics and Media: A Critical Inquiry Book (University of Chicago Press, 2014), which he edited with Hillary Chute (Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature). He also published a special issue of New Media and American Literature (Duke University Press, 2013), which he edited with Tara McPherson and Wendy H. K. Chun. He released the digital project Nexus X: A Speculation Archive and helped to create The Source, an alternate-reality game produced by the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab (GCC), a collaboration with Melissa Gilliam (Professor in the Biological Sciences Division). GCC received support from a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant, an EAGER Grant from the National Science Foundation, a Compton Foundation Grant, the Hive Learning Network Grant from the Chicago Community Trust, an UChicago Arts|Science Faculty Collaboration Grant, a Travel and Partnership Planning Grant from UChicago Center in Delhi, a research grant from the UChicago Humanities Visiting Committee, and the funding from the UChicago Innovation Exchange. Jagoda also received a course development grant from the UChicago Center for Disciplinary Innovation for the PhD seminar Network Aesthetics | Network Cultures.