Lunchtime Roundtalbe
Douglas Kahn
Douglas Kahn, Professor of Technocultural Studies at University of California, Davis, affiliated with the Department of Music and Art History Program. He writes on the history and contemporary activity in art, music, media arts, literature and cinema as they intersect with sound, electromagnetism, and technology. He is author of Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (MIT Press), and coeditor of Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant-garde (MIT Press). He received a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship for work on the historical discovery of natural radio. With Erkki Huhtamo and Margaret Morse, he edits the Technoculture and the Arts book series from University of California Press; with Michael Bull, Paul Gilroy, and David Howes edits the journal Senses and Society (Berg); and is on the editorial board of Leonardo Music Journal (MIT Press) and Acoustic Space (Riga, Latvia). Current projects include a book sourced from Source: Music of the Avant-garde, edited with Larry Austin, for University of California Press; Mainframe Experimentalism, edited with Hannah Higgins, a collection of essays and documents on the arts and early computing; and a book on the arts across the electromagnetic spectrum, Arts of the Spectrum, for University of California Press.
Laura Cerruti
Laura Cerruti is Director of Digital Content Development at University of California Press. She received a B.A. in English from UC Davis and has worked at UC Press since 1997. During her years at UC Press and before taking her current position, she has alternately sold to books clubs and special markets, managed the paperback list, and worked on revised editions in the California Natural History Guide series, and acquired books in poetry and classical studies. She began her book publishing career in the editorial department of Chronicle Books in San Francisco. She has given presentations on publishing matters for the Association of American University Presses (AAUP), UC Berkeley, UC Office of the President, the Mendocino Writer’s Conference and the Community of Writers’ Conference; and she was member of the AAUP Program Committee from 2004-2006 and the American Philological Association (APA) Task Force on Electronic Publishing from 2006-2007 (http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/taskforce/APAAIATaskForce.html) . Highlights from her recent projects include: Mark Twain Project Online (www.marktwainproject.org), the UC Press bestseller Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race; Joshua Clover’s The Totality for Kids, which was reviewed in Entertainment Weekly and Bookforum; On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay by Robert Creeley, which was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review; Peter Green’s translation of The Poems of Catullus, which inspired a special event sponsored by Illy and Bookforum; and Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley, featured in Barnes & Noble bookstores.
Frederick A. Winter
Frederick A. Winter received his B.A. in classical Greek language from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and Ph.D. in classical archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania. His research and publications have focused on the Bronze Age-Iron Age transition in Greece, the final prehistoric Celtic era in southeastern Europe, and the Hellenistic period in the eastern Mediterranean. He has directed archaeological excavations in Cyprus, Israel, the United States, and Yugoslavia, and he has also participated in excavations in Hawaii, Greece, and Turkey. Dr. Winter is currently a senior program officer in the Office of Challenge Grants at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), a U.S. federal agency. When he joined the Endowment in 1993, he was a tenured Professor of Classics with a joint appointment in the doctoral program at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the undergraduate program at Brooklyn College, where he was responsible for the administration of the college's undergraduate Core Curriculum, a thirteen course program required of all the college's 15,000 undergraduates.
At NEH, Dr. Winter served initially in the Endowment’s Higher Education in the Humanities Program where his programmatic responsibilities focused on projects involving core curricula and the use of emerging technologies in undergraduate education. Dr. Winter joined the Office of Challenge Grants in 1995. Within that office, Dr. Winter works with higher education applicants, as well as historical societies and sites, museums, and public media centers. He was the founding coordinator for the NEH We the People Challenge Grants in American History, Institutions and Culture, and he currently serves on the NEH task force for its Digital Humanities Initiative. He has also designed and administered special federal granting programs for American minority institutions, including historically black, Hispanic-serving, and American Indian colleges and universities, and he was part of the NEH team that provided funding for the restoration of cultural programs in Iraq.