Patrick P. Jagoda, Graduate Instructor
Email Address: ppj2@duke.edu
Specialties:
20th Century/Modernist Studies
American Literature
Critical Theory
Literature and Science
Other
Education:
BA, Pomona College, 2004
Research Categories: 20th-century American literature, new media studies, critical theory, network aesthetics, speculative fiction, synthetic worlds
Research Description: Patrick Jagoda conducts research in areas that include 20th-century American literature, new media studies, and critical theory. His dissertation explores the way that metaphors and representations of network structures have influenced fiction, film, and new media from the end of World War II through the early years of the twenty-first century. He is especially concerned with cultural fears about interconnectivity that have arisen in the era of globalization. As such, his work grapples with network figures that include terrorist networks, economic networks, computer webs, and disease ecologies. Along with his academic work, Patrick is finishing up a near-future techno-science fiction novel about the future of online military games. He is also working on the early stages of an actual online game entitled Emergence.