~/jeffreymoro/research

My CV is available here. If you’re unable to access any of my work, please write me and I’d be happy to share a copy.

> ls projects/

• RetroComp. Project director, 2026 – Present. A research enterprise dedicated to the creative re-use and revitalization of vintage, heritage, and otherwise obsolete computer hardware. Supported by UMD’s Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) program. https://our.umd.edu/vip-teams/retrocomp
• Sensing Sferics. Project director, 2023 – present. An environmental media project about the scientific and artistic practice of listening to radio atmospheric signals (or “sferics”) released by phenomena such as lightning and aurora. Lab activities include taking recordings of sferics from sites across the Eastern Shore of Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic and workshops on DIY radio and listening practices. https://jeffreymoro.com/research/sferics.html

> ls essays/

• “Counting Feeling: Affect Theory and Sentiment Analysis in TextBlob.” 2026. Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 1. Special issue on “Critical Code Studies,” eds. Mark Marino and Jeremy Douglass. https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/20/1/000825/000825.html
• “Measuring the Sky from the Curve of the Earth.” 2025. Media Matters in Landscape Architecture, eds. Karen M’Closkey and Keith VanDerSys. San Francisco: Applied Research and Design Publishing, pp. 30–41. https://appliedresearchanddesign.com/product/media-matters-in-landscape-architecture
• “As Above, So Below: Astrological Data in the Age of Co–Star.” 2025. ASAP/J. Special research cluster on “Algorithms and the Occult,” eds. Tamara Kneese, Jeffrey Moro, and Briana Vecchione. https://asapjournal.com/node/as-above-so-below-astrological-data-in-the-age-of-co-star/
• “Introduction: Algorithms and the Occult.” 2025. ASAP/J. Co-authored with Tamara Kneese and Briana Vecchione. Special research cluster on “Algorithms and the Occult,” eds. Tamara Kneese, Jeffrey Moro, and Briana Vecchione. https://asapjournal.com/node/algorithms-and-the-occult-or-chatbots-are-the-new-psychic-friends-network/
• “Sensing Sferics: Electromagnetic Noise and Environmental Signal. 2024. Journal of Environmental Media. Special issue on “Sensing + Elementality,” eds. Nick Silcox, Rafico Ruiz, and Max Ritts, vol. 5, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00118_1
• “Review of Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control, by Yuriko Furuhata.” 2023. Journal of Environmental Media, vol. 4, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00102_5
• “Air-conditioning the Internet: Data Center Securitization as Atmospheric Media.” 2021. Media Fields, Special issue on “Life Cycles,” eds. Miguel Penabella and Amaru Tejada, no. 16. http://mediafieldsjournal.org/air-conditioning-the-internet/
• “Collective Tissue.” 2021. Qui Parle, vol. 30, no. 1. Special Forum: Breath / Inhale : Exhale. https://doi.org/10.1215/10418385-8955857
• “Review of Lightning Birds: An Aeroecology of the Airwaves, by Jacob Smith.” 2021. ISLE, vol. 28, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11714652
• “Grid Techniques for a Planet in Crisis: The Infrastructures of Weather Prediction.” 2020. Amodern, vol. 9: Techniques and Technologies, ed. Grant Wythoff. https://amodern.net/article/grid-techniques/
• “Dance Apocalyptic: Tim Maughan’s Infinite Detail and Media after the Internet.” 26 Oct 2019. Los Angeles Review of Books. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dance-apocalyptic-tim-maughans-infinite-detail-and-media-after-the-internet/
• “Weird Ways of Seeing: Patrick Nagatani’s Nuclear Vision.” 2 June 2018. Los Angeles Review of Books. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/weird-ways-of-seeing-patrick-nagatanis-nuclear-vision/

> ls recent-talks/

• “Episode 02: Algorithms, Co–Star, & the Occult (with Jeffrey Moro).” 2025. Guest speaker on Love + Machines podcast, hosted by Julia Park with support from the Critical Futures & Creative Labor research cluster at the University of Toronto. https://love-machines.simplecast.com/episodes/episode-02-algorithms-co-star-the-occult-with-jeffrey-moro-mIT0jou7
• “Describing the Troposphere: Meteorology and Digital Literature.” 2025. Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE). College Park, MD.
• “Simulation Games in the Stratosphere.” 2025. Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SMCS). Chicago, IL.
• “As Above, So Below: Astrological Data in the Age of Co–Star.” 2024. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP). Manhattan, NY.
• “Sensing Sferics: Electromagnetic Noise and Environmental Signal.” 2024. Digital Dialogue series by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). College Park, MD. Invited Talk.
• “The Dawn Chorus.” 2023. Modernist Studies Association. Brooklyn, NY. Workshop Paper.
• “Cutting the Feeling: Affect and Digital Memory in the ‘Storm Data and Unusual Weather Phenomena’ Database.” 2021. Society for the Social Study of Science (4S). Virtual.
• “Air Under Lockdown: Temperature and Security in the Global Data Center.” SCMS. 2021. Virtual.
• “Time is a Difference of Pressure: Breath as Environmental Media in Ted Chiang’s ‘Exhalation.’” 2021. Modern Language Association (MLA). Virtual.