Kit Bauserman

M.A./Ph.D.

Email: [[babauserman]]
Research Interests: Environmental Humanities; Digital Humanities; Queer Studies; Horror and the Gothic; New, Analog, and Dead Media; Consumer & Internet Aesthetics; Fieldwork Methodologies; Nature Writing; Media Archeology; Elemental Media

Biography

Kit Bauserman is a Ph.D. Candidate in the American Studies Program at the College of William & Mary. They study the relationships between environmental aesthetics, placemaking, technology, and genre. Kit’s dissertation, “The Elemental Gothic: Fieldwork, Affect, and Landscapes-as-Archives in the Digital Humanities” uses nature writing and other ecocritical methods to make the case for slow residential fieldwork in the digital humanities to show how technologies, users, and environments shape each other across Great Britain and North America. Kit has previously earned an M.A. in American Studies from the College of William & Mary and a B.A. in Philosophy from Christopher Newport University. Their words appear in the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog and Atlas Obscura.

Website: https://www.kitbauserman.com

Education

M.A. in American Studies, College of William & Mary, 2024.

B.A. in Philosophy, Christopher Newport University, 2021.