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About me

I work as the Academic and Research Director at Temple University Libraries. I also serve as the Executive Director of Philly Community Wireless, and the Managing Editor for the Programming Historian in English.

 

 

I work on and advise a variety of other projects around literature, theater, new media, and community technology. If you are interested in meeting or consulting with me, please reach out via email.

Projects

SF Nexus

2017-Present

Project Director

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sfnexus.io

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Philly Community Wireless

2020-Present

Executive Director​

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phillycommunitywireless.org

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Cover of Letter to the Americans by Jean Cocteau, translated by Alex Wermer-Colan, New Directions

Letter to the
Americans

A new translation of Jean Cocteau's Letter to the Americans from 1947, published by New Directions.

2022

Cover of William S. Burroughs: Cutting Up the Century, edited by Joan Hawkins and Alex Wermer-Colan, Indiana University Press

Cutting Up the Century

2019

The definitive anthology on William S. Burroughs' cut-up method, containing scholarly criticism, interviews, and previously unseen archival materials, from cut-up texts and photomontages to essays and screenplays.

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For Reviews, see Choice and TLS

Cover of The Travel Agency is on Fire, a Lost & Found anthology of William S. Burroughs cut-up experiments

The Travel Agency is on Fire

A Lost & Found anthology of archival materials containing William S. Burroughs cut-up experiments with canonical writers. In collaboration with Experiments in Opera, ten composers set selected pieces to music in performances at The Stone.

2015

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