Mission: to support authors of innovative digital projects by supporting the presses that publish them.

My primary employment is currently at Stanford University Press where I served on its Mellon-funded digital publishing initiative from 2016 to 2024. I’m so passionate about what I helped develop there that I want to continue applying my skills, knowledge, and experience to help other university presses and library publishers. The lack of in-house expertise at most presses for digital editing, production, and preservation should not deter them from acquiring and publishing these increasingly common formats. I want to help all presses reliably and responsibly extend their capacity for supporting innovative formats.

photo of mulliken at a typewriter

Background

I received my Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2011 and spent the following five years as Visiting Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University teaching Intro to Lit, British Lit Survey (II), Honors Critical Analysis and Writing (with a focus on digital identity), and Freshman Composition.

I am the author and editor of the online Mapping Dubliners Project, an interactive critical and geographic resource examining the historical-political layers James Joyce embedded, through over 200 geographical references, into his 1914 Dubliners, a work many others argue lacks strong political critique. The project evolved out of a digital appendix to my dissertation “From ‘Disentangling the Subtle Soul’ to ‘Ineluctable Modality’ : James Joyce’s Transmodal Techniques,” which examines James Joyce’s transmodal techniques in Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, and Ulysses, arguing that by the process of “re-rendering,” Joyce employs the conventions of one artistic medium to create work in another medium. Such instances of re-rendering can be best identified, analyzed, and illustrated by digital means.

As a scholar with a digital project and nowhere to publish it, I was excited about Stanford University Press’s program that sought to legitimize the work of scholars producing arguments in innovative digital formats. Rather than continue spinning my wheels toward a traditional tenure-track academic career, I joined SUP’s Mellon-funded initiative to become a leading advocate for scholars like myself, helping others realize their innovative publications and learning how to improve my own work along the way.

When I’m not enjoying my passion of all things digital publishing (it truly is a huge part my identity!), I like to run, play flute in my community band, geek out on Star Trek, and play games like Cyberpunk 2077 and World of Warcraft. I also write poetry when the mood is right, preferably on a typewriter (as pictured).

My cat Pixel is my mascot and is the inspiration for my logo, a very focused keyboard cat.