During my time at Bard, I was employed as a podcast specialist of the Experimental Humanities (EH) Media Corps. I taught other students how to make “audio essays”, produced a faculty podcast, worked AV for events and lectures, and generally hung around the office.

I should mention that I invented this job specifically for myself, therefore all of my “duties” were by my own design. So I served my community as best I knew how.

In 2015 (?) the EH program received a sizable grant from the Mellon Foundation to fund exploratory digital humanities at Bard. We used a portion of the grant money to bring a series of guest speakers to campus, including digital pioneers Jill Magid, Miriam Posner, and Nicholas Bauch.

While our guests were on campus, I sat down with each of them and recorded 30 minute interviews about their lives and work, ranging from the origin of Posner’s fixation on lobotomies to Magid’s pseudo-romantic relationship with the entire Liverpool public surveillance system. Self-designed interests indeed!