About

Jesse Stommel is Founder and Director of Hybrid Pedagogy and Executive Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies. He earned a Ph.D. in English from University of Colorado Boulder and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Georgia Tech. His particular expertise is in digital pedagogy, open education, and new media. He is an advocate for lifelong learning and the public digital humanities. He teaches courses about fun stuff like zombies, horror film, American literature, hypertext, electronic literature, and haptic interfaces. He experiments relentlessly with learning interfaces, both digital and analog, and works in his research and teaching to emphasize new forms of collaboration. His favorite book is Moby Dick, and his favorite film is Night of the Living Dead. He has a clever dog, Emily, and two rascally cats, Loki and Odin. He’s on Twitter @Jessifer and his personal web site can be found at http://www.jessestommel.com.