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Dr. Seth Long

Associate Professor, Composition Coordinator
longsd@unk.edu
(308) 865-8294
THMH 205D
Department of English
Research focus areas: Digital humanities

Areas of Expertise

  • Composition
  • English
  • Graduate Faculty
  • Humanities
  • Pedagogy
  • Rhetoric

Education

  • Ph.D., Composition and Rhetoric. Syracuse University. 2015
  • M.A., Linguistics. Syracuse University. 2015
  • B.A., Screenwriting. Chapman University. 2007

Areas of Specialization

  • Digital humanities 
  • Rhetorical theory
  • History of rhetoric
  • Quantitative methods and corpus linguistics

Publications

  • The Last Mixtape: Physical Media and Nostalgic Cycles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025.
  • Excavating the Memory Palace: Arts of Visualization from the Agora to the Computer. University of Chicago Press, 2020.
  • as Seth Largo. “The Answer is Better Gangs.” Palladium Magazine 11: Social Apocalpyse. Fall 2023.
  • as Seth Largo. “No More Stars.” Covidian Aesthetics, Guest Column 12. 1 June 2021.
  • “Review of Architects of Memory, by Nathan R. Johnson.” Rhetoric Review 40.1 (January 2021)
  • as Seth Largo. “The Green Zone Plan to Open Universities.” Palladium Magazine. 26 June 2020.
  • as Seth Largo. “The University System Isn’t Going Anywhere.” Palladium Magazine. 13 December 2019.
  • as Seth Largo. “From Zacatecas to Mission Control: A Story of Assimilation and Its Future.” Palladium Magazine. 29 August 2019.
  • With Det. Ken Fitch. "Digital Surveillance of Gang Communication: Graffiti's Rhetorical Velocity between Street Gangs and Urban Law Enforcement." RhetOps, eds. Jim Ridolfo and William Hart-Davidson. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, in press.
  • "Changing Words into Numbers: Rhetoric, the Digital Humanities, and Methodological Transparency." Rhetorics Change/Rhetoric's Change, eds. Jenny Rice, Chelsea Graham, and Eric Detweiler. South Carolina: Parlor Press, 2018. 
  • "Excavating the Memory Palace: An Account of the Disappearance of Mnemonic Imagery from English Rhetoric, 1550 - 1650." Rhetoric Review 36.2 (2017): 122-138. 
  • "Visualizing Words and Knowledge: Arts of Memory for the Digital Age." Computers and Composition 42.1 (2016): 28-46. 
  • with Krista Kennedy. “The Trees Within the Forest: Capturing, Coding, and Visualizing Data in Authorship Studies.” Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities, eds. Jim Ridolfo and William Hart-Davidson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
  • “Re-purposing Data in the Digital Humanities.” The Impact Blog: London School of Economics and Political Science. 2 April 2014. Web.

Courses Taught

  • ENG887: Theory and Pedagogy of Digital Rhetoric
  • ENG805 The Teaching of Composition
    ENG803 Descriptive Linguistics. 
  • ENG427: Electronic Literacy
  • ENG311: Advanced Writing
  • ENG304 Grammar
  • ENG303 Intro to Linguistics
  • ENG220 Film Studies
  • ENG102: Academic Writing and Research
  • ENG101 Introduction to Academic Writing

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