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Jeffrey Moro, PhD

I’m a writer, teacher, and tinkerer based in Baltimore, Maryland. I’m interested in old technologies, the natural world, and how we can use the one to better understand and protect the other.

I’m currently working on a book titled Cloud Studies: A Media Archaeology of the Atmosphere, which explores how we have imagined and mediated the air as information across time and culture. As the subtitle suggests, I write about some of the lesser-known and downright strange moments in atmospheric media history, from electronic weather diaries to climate simulation games, noctilucent clouds to experimental radio art, in order to better understand how we’ve come to imagine the atmosphere as a kind of computer itself. I’ve published essays related to this project in the Journal of Environmental Media, Media Fields, and Amodern, among other venues.

Other interests of mine include media theory and history, electronic literature, vintage and obsolete computers, software (especially video game) preservation, textual history, the materiality of radio, technologies of the occult, minimal and sustainable computing, nature writing, and barbell weightlifting.

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I currently hold the position of Assistant Clinical Professor of Digital Humanities and Digital Studies with the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and African American Digital and Experimental Humanities (AADHum) at the University of Maryland, College Park, where I’m also affiliated with the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM). Among my various programmatic duties at MITH, I steward its retrocomputing collections, including the Bill Bly and Deena Larsen Collections of Electronic Literature, and run RetroComp, a research lab dedicated to the creative re-use and re-vitalization of old computers. I teach both undergraduate and graduate classes in the digital humanities, with a particular emphasis on hands-on work with MITH’s collections.

I received my PhD in English with a certificate in Digital Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park. Past lives include work as a site manager for Romantic Circles, a born-digital journal of Romantic literary studies, and as a post-baccalaureate resident with Five College Digital Humanities.

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I blog, errantically. If you’d like to read my posts in your inbox, I have a newsletter that mirrors my posts here. I also have an RSS feed.

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You can reach me at jm [at] jeffrey moro [dot] com.