dj.fields@ufl.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (ABD), English, University of Florida (expected 2026)
Dissertation: “Poly Styrene, Vivienne Westwood, and Linder: Formations of Punk Feminism in Early British Punk Art”
Committee: Margaret Galvan (chair), Sid Dobrin, Victor Del Hierro, Rachel Silveri
M.A., English, University of Florida, 2024
B.A., English with Honors, Indiana University, 2020
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
“Tulip Poplars: A Creative Teaching Philosophy.” Mid-Atlantic Review, vol. 30, 2022.
Book Reviews
“DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the U.S.: Ethnographic Explorations of Place and Community, by David Verbuč.” Journal of Popular Music Studies, September 2025.
“Dancing After TEN by Vivian Chong.” ImageTexT Journal, 2022.
Manuscripts in Preparation
“Punk Petrohorror.” Essay accepted to Haunted by Hydrocarbons: Petrogothic and Petrohorror in the Contemporary Imagination
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
Research
Kirkland Fellowship for Cultural Studies, University of Florida, 2020-2024
Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity, Indiana University, 2020
Diversity
Chief Diversity Officer’s Grant, University of Florida, 2022
Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society Grant, Indiana University, 2019-2020
RESIDENCIES
National Humanities Center Graduate Summer Residency: Meaningful Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Classroom, 2022
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor of Record, University of Florida (2020-present)
Writing Through Media: Women’s Music Criticism (special topics, 2025)
Introduction to Literature: The Literary Ghost Story (two sections, 2024)
Nature & Spirituality in World Literature, 17th c. to Modern (Fall 2023 & Spring 2023)
Technical Writing (Summer 2025, Summer 2023, Fall 2022)
Professional Writing in the Disciplines (2024)
Argument and Persuasion (2022)
Professional Communication for Engineers (2022, 2021, 2020)
Rhetoric and Academic Research (Spring 2021, Fall 2021)
Faculty Associate, Arizona State University
Theories of Cultural Literacy (graduate seminar, Spring 2026)
Writing in the Digital Age: Generative AI (special topics online, 2025)
Assistant Instructor, University of Florida
Privacy in the Digital Age (2025)
Blues Music and Culture (2024)
Expository and Argumentative Writing (2020)
Course Design, University of Florida
Adaptations: From Text to Film
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Papers Presented
“Girls to the Attic: Queer Space and Riot Grrrl Punk in the Videogame Gone Home.” Queer Cultures Panel, South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Jacksonville, FL, November 2024.
“Domestic Objects and the Girl Consumer: Play as Resistance in Poly Styrene’s Plastic Punk Art.” Girlhood Studies Symposium: The Mundanity of Girlhood: Pleasure, Play, & the Everyday, Rutgers University, April 2024.
“Positionality in Social Media Research: Roundtable.“ Computers and Writing Conference: Practicing Digital Activisms, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, May 2022.
“Building Classroom Community with a Personal Experience Humanities Project.” University of Florida Synergies Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, September 2021.
“Composition/Decomposition: Racism and a Grammar Book Burial.” Pedagogy, Practice and Philosophy Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, February 2021.
“The Vampire Britannia: Monsters of Empire in Helen Oyeyemi’s White Is For Witching.” Honors English Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, February 2020.
MANUSCRIPT PEER REVIEWER
ImageTexT Journal, University of Florida, 2021
ART EXHIBITS
Installation artist and performer
Tell Me About the Youth of Rivers, Indiana University (2018)
Oracle at Delphi/NYC Tarot Reader Indiana University School of Fine Arts (2018)
Performer
Dama Djanochi by Rachel de Cuba, Indiana University School of Fine Arts (2017)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
International Gothic Association (IGA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
North American British Music Studies Association (NABSMA)
North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
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