My primary research interest is in digital media authorship and its potential to transform scholarly research and its expression, especially in the humanities. Most recently I have been focusing on how spatial media forms - maps, virtual worlds, games, and data viz - might converge in diverse, multimodal, immersive, shared hypermedia places and spaces. Some "test cases" include: visualizing the Great Exhibition of 1851, mapping the contemporary Muhuru Bay community in Kenya, and modeling Duke and Durham, past and present.

I am a co-director of the new Franklin Humanities Institute GreaterThanGames Lab, which grew in part out of the "Experiencing Virtual Worlds" Interdisciplinary Working Group I co-convened in 2009-11. I am also an affiliate of the FHI Haiti Labs and BorderWorks labs, where my primary connections are through digital representation and cultural mapping. I am a core collaborated in the new Wired! Lab for Digital Historical Reconstruction as well.

As the Program Director for Information Science + Information Studies, Iencourage students to explore these topics in both theory and practice through highly interdisciplinary project-based collaborations. I am also affiliated with the program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), the new MFA program in Experimental and Documentary Arts (MFAEDA), and the English Department.

Before coming to Duke, I worked as an Academic Technology Manager and Specialist at Stanford University, where I also taught in the Introduction to the Humanities program. It was at Stanford that I developed many of the digital media authorship competencies and novel pedagogical practices I apply to my work at Duke today.

Education:

• Ph.D. in English University of Rochester
• Certificate in Gender and Women's Studies University of Rochester 1996
• M.A. in English Indiana University, Bloomington
• B.A. in English Williams College

Office Hours:

By Appointment
Typical Courses Taught:

• Isis 200s, Research capstone Synopsis

• isis 140, Web-based multimedia comm. Synopsis

• Isis 110fcs, Authoring digital media Synopsis

• Isis 240s, Technology and new media

• Isis 145s, Gender and digital culture

1. Deborah Jenson , Victoria Szabo, and the Duke FHI Haiti Humanities Laboratory Student Research Team. "Cholera IN Haiti." Emerging Infectious Diseases. Edited by Center for Disease Control and Prevention.  vol. 17 no. 11 (November, 2011). (http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1711.110958)  [abs]
2. V.E. Szabo. "Assistant Editor, Special Issue." Leonardo  vol. 44 no. 4 (August, 2011). (special issue) [html]
3. V.E. Szabo. "Augmented SIGGRAPH/Vancouver."   (August, 2011). (Augmented Reality experience juxtaposing Art Gallery work with local Vancouver sights via an augmented reality browser.)
4. V.E. Szabo. "Kenan Institute for Ethics "Good Question" Brochure."   (Spring, 2011). [available here]  [abs]
5. Joyce Rudinsky, Victoria Szabo, Jason Copolsky, Mark Robinson, Eric Knisley. "Psychasthenia."   (February, 2010). [pdf]  [abs]

Selected Exhibitions

1. Art Papers Juror, SIGGRAPH 2011, 2011    
2. "Home" Art Gallery Jury and On-Site Committee, SIGGRAPH 2011, August 07, 2011 - August 11, 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada    
3. Art Papers Juror, SIGGRAPH 2010, July 25, 2010 - July 29, 2010, Los Angeles, CA [available here]    
4. Information Aesthetics Showcase Chair, SIGGRAPH 2009, August 3-7, 2009, New Orleans, LA [available here]    
5. "Slow Art" - Juror, Podcast Dev, and On-Site Committee, SIGGRAPH 2008, August, 2008, Los Angeles, CA    
6. "Global Eyes" - Juror, Podcast Dev, and On-Site Committee, SIGGRAPH 2007, August, 2007, San Diego, CA    

Selected Talks

1. Digital Humanities and Historical GIS: A Conversation at the Interface, November 18, 2011, UNC Chapel Hill, NC [edu]    
2. A Primer for Digital Media Authorship: Placing the Crystal Place, November 16, 2011, Duke Wired! Lab [pdf]    
3. Digital Scholarly Communication – Notes from the Wired! Lab for Digital Historical Visualization, December 02, 2011, HASTAC V Conference, Ann Arbor, MI [available here]    
4. Respondent: Science, Industry and the Environment, October 22, 2011, American Studies Association (ASA), Baltimore, MD [html]    
5. Gaming the Real: The Convergence of Maps, Social Media, and Virtual Worlds, September 16, 2011, Society for Literature, Science & the Arts (SLSA), Kitchener, Ontario [pdf]    
6. "The Ethics of Virtual Cultural Representation" (Poster Session), June 20, 2011, Big Tent Digital Humanities Conference, Stanford, CA [pdf]    
7. "Writing in 3D: Immersive Virtual Writing as Authorship and Critique", February 05, 2011, NC Symposium on the Teaching of Writing [schedule-of-events]    
8. "Analog and Digital: Texts, Contexts, and Networks," special session organizer, January 07, 2011, Modern Language Association conference, Los Angeles, CA    
9. Invited Panel Respondent - Sherry Turkle Lecture, "Alone Together: New Intimacies and Solitudes of the Digital Age.", November 04, 2010, NC State University [available here]    
10. "Virtual Worlds and Community Medicine", July 12, 2010, Graduate Medical Education, Duke University School of Medicine    
11. "Visual Studies and Digital Humanities", March 30, 2010 - April 01, 2010, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY    
12. Panel Discussion - "Before the Flood", February 20, 2010, Nasher Museum, Durham NC    
13. "Games and Digital Storytelling," moderator, February 17, 2010, CHAT Festival, Chapel Hill, NC    
14. "A Primer for Digital Media Authorship", December 29, 2009, MLA Conference, Philadelphia, PA [pdf]    
15. "Virtual World Building as Collaborative Knowledge Production: The Online Crystal Palace", December 28, 2009, MLA Convention 2009, Philadelphia, PA [pdf]    
16. "Multimedia Mapping for Research and Discovery in Muhuru Bay, Kenya", November 05, 2009, Educause, Denver, CO    
17. "Digital Media Writing as Academic Authorship", June 13, 2008, New Media Consortium Conference, Princeton, NJ [5909]    
18. ""Designing and Implementing Podcasting (Webcast), 2008, Academic Impressions - Online    
19. "Media-Enriched Critical Writing as Gray Market Transgression", December 29, 2007, MLA Conference, Chicago, IL    
20. "Texts in Virtual Contexts: Reading Scholarly Work in 3D Environments", December 28, 2007, MLA Conference, Chicago, IL    
21. "Podcasting in Education” and “Videocasting in Education", August 25, 2007, E-Sanitas Symposium on Mobile Learning, Bogota, Colombia    
22. "Digital Media and the Hybrid University", February, 2007, Podcast Academy V (Duke)    
23. "Institutional Podcasting and Media Sharing", August, 2006, Educause Leadership Institute, Snowmass, CO    
24. "The Mobile User" (panelist; televised, webcast), March, 2006, Ready2Net, Cal State, Monterey, CA    
25. "Millennial Students and Technology at Stanford", February, 2006, Parents' Advisory Board, Stanford Development, Stanford U    
26. "Course Management Tools for the Humanities", December, 2005, Sakai Developers Conference, Austin, TX    
27. "iPods and iTunes in Higher Education" (panelist), November, 2005, Apple Digital Campus Leadership Institute, Georgia College and State U, Milledgeville, GA    
28. Designing and Evaluating Multimedia Projects, June, 2005, Computers and Writing Pre-Conference Workshop, Stanford U, Stanford, CA    
29. "Higher Education Implications: Teaching and Learning with Technology in Undergraduate Education", February, 2005, Apple Technology Leadership Institute Executive Briefing, Stanford U, Stanford, CA    
30. "Persuasive Pervasive: Real Learning or Hype?" (panelist), February, 2005, National Learning Infrastructure Initiative Conference, New Orleans, LA    
31. "Avatar: Techno-Embodiment(?)", January 22, 2010, John Hope Franklin Center, Durham, NC [new.duke.edu.1516004402.02524663062.3222303206]    

Selected Other

1. Instructor, Digital Visualization (WIRED) Workshop, June 13, 2011 - June 17, 2011, Smith Warehouse, Duke University    
2. Instructor, Digital Visualization (WIRED) Workshop, June 7, 2010 - June 18,2010, Smith Warehouse, Duke University    
3. "Teaching and Learning in Second Life", May, 2009, CIT Lunchtime Demonstration (Duke)    
4. Duke News Online "Office Hours", 2009 [html]    
5. "Second Life in Undergraduate Education at Duke", April 24, 2008, CIT Instructional Technology Showcase [html]    
6. "Mashing the Nasher: the ISIS Virtual ‘Gnasher’ Project", May, 2007, CIT Instructional Technology Showcase    
7. "Multimedia Mapping for Engagement and Discovery", April 03, 2009, CIT Instructional Technology Showcase [html]