Cameron Wilson, Ph.D.
Program Director of Digital Humanities, Professor
School of the Humanities & the Arts
Rocklin, CA
Biography:
Cameron Wilson is Associate Professor and Program Director of Digital Humanities at Jessup University. Ever since his first American literature course in college, Cameron has been fascinated by American literature and its bottomless well of fascinating works. His current research focuses on Digital Humanities, Natural Language Processing, and the American short story.
Education:
Ph.D. English: Literature of the Americas, Trinity College, Dublin
M.A. English: Literary Studies, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
B.A. English, Covenant College
Publications / Work:
Academic Publications:
“Third-person Ventriloquism”: Microdialogues and Polyphony in George Saunders’s ‘Victory Lap,’” George Saunders: Critical Essays, American Literature Readings in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Theatre For Humanity (NYC): PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (Producer), HAMLET (Producer/Director), THE FAR HORIZON (Producer/Director); INDEPENDENCE (Producer/Kess)
The Classic Theatre (CA): THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW (Director)
Virginia Shakespeare Festival: JULIUS CAESAR (Portia), ROMEO AND JULIET (Lady Capulet), CYMBELINE (Roman Captain, Queen u/s)
Americana Theatre Company (MA): THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Queen Anne), AN INSPECTOR CALLS (Sybil Birling), REDEEMING LOVE (World Premier; Duchess, Mae, Priscilla)
Conference Papers and Presentations:
“Monstrous Bodies: Contemporary Body Horror, Metaphor and Otherness,” Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages, Portland, Oregon. October 2023.
“Unlocking the Power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the Humanities,” Jessup Faculty Research Colloquium, Rocklin, CA. November 2023.
“The Ethical Demands of the Grotesque Body in Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties,” North East MLA, Niagara Falls, New York. March 2023.
“Ultimate Concerns and Passionate Convictions: Walker Percy’s Religious Atheists,” Sacred Literature, Secular Religion, Le Moyne University, Syracuse, New York. October 2015
“Directives and Dialogism: A Bakhtinian Reading of George Saunders’s ‘Victory Lap,”’ International Conference on the Short Story in English, Vienna, Austria. July 2014
“The Search and the Postsecular in the Novels of Walker Percy,” Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA. May 2014
“The Dialectic of Belief: Participation and Uncertainty in Walker Percy’s Lost in the Cosmos,” Walker Percy Conference, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA. October 2013
Miscellaneous Publications:
“Faculty Research: Artificial Intelligence Assisted Research,” Jessup Magazine, Summer 2024.
“Code and Sensibility: ChatGPT in Humanities Research,” Jessup Magazine, Fall 2023.
