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After receiving my Master's Degree within the field of English literature, I plan on completing the Ph.D. program within the Texts and Technology program. My professional goals are to teach as member of the community of higher education while also contributing to this community by analyzing the uses of computer technology from a theoretical perspective.
I hope to write several academic proposals which would seek budgetary allowances to create programs which support the academic community.
In particular, I am interested in creating and updating a program I have termed "Obscure Document Retrieval." This program (ODR) would allow educators and students within the academic community to access obscure and original texts that have been intentionally or unintentionally marginalized within various genres of literary studies. An example of this would be non-English written slave-narratives. This program would allow scholars to track the historical records of a literary figure as well as their literary works.
Hence, this program would expand the field of study within the genre of culturally marginalized works of literature while perhaps also redefining the criteria of what are considered predominant literary works and historically ambiguous texts.
This program would work in conjunction with such organizations as the Special Collections departments of various university libraries.
Individual educators who wish to participate in this on-line community would be able to scan retrieved documents into an on-line database to share with other members of academia. This program would also entail a Web-based HTML page in which on-line discussion and e-mail entries would allow participants to network ideas and information with each other.
In addition to this, I wish to publish and share my ideas on the theories and practices of technology within the academic community. Technology undoubtedly has affected the way in which we view history and the way in which record historical literary events. Upon graduation from the University of Central Florida's Text and Technology Program, I will seek employment within a state or private university and become a professional member of the pedagogical community. Furthermore, it is my greatest aspiration to assist in the implementation of technology within the given department in which I am employed and to use these technological advancements within the study of literature and literary theory.
Computer technology is a fairly new phenomenon and I feel communication via computer technology is a field of study which has just begun to be investigated. As new programs are developed daily, it is important to recognize the implications of integrating these advancements within the intelligentsia and communicating to fellow members of academia the importance of including these technologies within our everyday analysis of literature, cultural norms, and theories.