Curriculum Vitae

Dale Carrico

Visiting Faculty, Liberal Arts
San Francisco Art Institute

Human Rights Fellow
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET)

dalec@berkeley.edu

EDUCATION

Dissertation: Pancryptics: Technological Transformations of the Subject of Privacy
Committee: Judith Butler, Chair (Rhetoric and Comparative Literature); Mark Poster (History, UC Irvine); Pamela Samuelson (School of Law and School of Information Management and Systems); Linda Williams (Rhetoric and Film Studies).

Thesis: Technology and Proliferating "Queer" Bodies
Committee: Timothy Renick, Chair; Linda Bell, Stephen Prothero

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics (CCLE), Summer Fellowship, 2004
Pedagogy Departmental Grant, 2004
Wollenberg Grant, 2003
Fletcher Jones Memorial Fellowship, 2000-2001
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley, 1998-1999.
University Block Grant, Department of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley, 1998

PAPERS PRESENTED

"Alone With My Thoughts: Private and Public Faces of Cognitive Self-Determination," Human Rights and Human Enhancement Technologies, Stanford University, May 27, 2006 (Upcoming)

"Pay to Peer: Basic Income and the Emerging Peer-to-Peer Network Culture," The Fourth Congress of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network: "The Right to Economic Security," New York, NY, March 5, 2005

"Vulgar Biocentrism Among the Technophiles," Art in the Posthuman Era, University of Toronto, August 7, 2004

"'Doin' What Comes Naturally'": Margaret Somerville's Bio-Conservative Deployment of the Precautionary Principle in Her Case Against Gay Marriage," New Feminist Perspectives on Biotechnology and Bioethics, University of California at Berkeley, March 12, 2004

"'Keep Your Laws Off My Body!': Biotechnology and the Politics of Choice, from Reproductive to Morphological Freedom," New Feminist Perspectives on Biotechnology and Bioethics, University of California at Berkeley, March 11, 2004

"Technocultural Singularity and the Shifting Terrain of Humanist Politics: Liberal Humanism, Transhumanism, Posthumanism," Born of Desertion: Singularity, Collectivity, Revolution, University of Florida, March 21, 2003

"Abject Beasts: Impurity, Solidarity, and the Politics of Vegetarianism," Subject, Object, Abject, University of California at Berkeley, February 28, 2003

"Animal Rites: Vegetarian Criticism, Vegetarian Selves," Culture Is Ordinary, Bowling Green State University, April 18, 1997

"The New Market: Intellectual Property Rights and the Technology Debates," Interface, Southern College of Technology, October 21, 1993

GUEST LECTURES AND TALKS

"Setting the Scene: Creating Conditions in Which Students Teach Themselves to Read and Write Argumentatively," Center for Individual Learning, San Francisco Art Institute, May 3, 2005

"Parables of Virtuality: 'Burning Chrome' and the Dark Night of Bodies," Representations of the Virtual, University of California at Berkeley, Catherine Zimmer, Instructor, February 17, 2005

"Teaching the Four Habits of Argumentative Writing," Department of Rhetoric Pedagogy Seminar, University of California at Berkeley, October 25, 2004

"Problems in Teaching Rhetoric," Department of Rhetoric Pedagogy Seminar, University of California at Berkeley, October 20, 2003

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING

Organizing Committee, "Human Rights and Human Enhancement Technologies Conference," Stanford University, May 26-28, 2006 (Upcoming)

Chief Organizer, the 13th Annual, Boundaries in Question Conference -- Feminists Face the Future: New Feminist Perspectives on Biotechnology and Bioethics, University of California at Berkeley, March 11-13, 2004

Chief Organizer, the 12th Annual, Boundaries in Question Conference, University of California at Berkeley, February, 28-March 1, 2003

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Department of Rhetoric Pedagogy Working Group, 2004-2005
Panel Moderator, "Body Politics," TransVision 04, University of Toronto, August 8, 2004
Steward, Department of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley, Association of Graduate Student Employees, 1996-1998

TEACHING FIELDS AND AREAS OF ACADEMIC INTEREST

Media and Technocultural Theory
Technoethical Discourse: Bioethics, Neuroethics, Roboethics, and Media Criticism
Technoscience and Democracy
Rhetorical Theory and Argumentation
Critical Theory
Composition
Science Fiction and Utopian Literature
Animal Rights Discourse
Sex and Gender Theory
The Comedy of Manners on the English Stage

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

As Instructor

Upper Division Courses

HUMN 300A: Critical Theory A, "The Enterprise of Interpretation," SFAI, Spring, 2007 (Upcoming)

Rhetoric 121A: "Biopunk and the Bioethical Imaginary," UCB, Fall, 2006 (Upcoming)

Rhetoric 132: "Design for Living: Artifice and Agency," UCB, Fall, 2006(Upcoming)

HUMN 300A: Critical Theory A, "The Point Is to Change It," SFAI, Fall, 2006 (Upcoming)

HUMN 300B: Critical Theory B, "Theory Faces Technoscience," SFAI, Fall, 2006 (Upcoming)

HUMN 300A: Critical Theory A, "Thinking What We Are Doing," SFAI, Summer, 2006 (Upcoming)

HUMN 300A: Critical Theory A, "Objectification and Objection" SFAI, Spring, 2006

HUMN 300A: Critical Theory A, "Critique, Subjection, Prostheses," SFAI, Fall, 2005

Rhetoric 110: Advanced Argumentation, "Varieties of Techno-Ethical Discourse and Policy: Bioethics, Neuroethics, Roboethics, and Media Criticism," UCB, Summer 2005

Rhetoric 199 (Independent Study): "The Gift and the Given in Hannah Arendt," UCB, Summer, 2005

HUMN 300B: Critical Theory B, "Critical Theory, Network Politics, and 'New' Media," SFAI, Spring, 2005

Rhetoric 110: Advanced Argumentation, "Deliberation, Demonstration, and Debate about Technological Change," UCB, Summer 2004

Rhetoric 110: Advanced Argumentation, "Close Reading As Argumentative Discourse," UCB, Summer, 2002

Lower Division Courses

Rhetoric 20: "The Rhetoric of Interpretation," UCB, Spring, 2006

Rhetoric 1A: "Ranting, Raving, Writing," UCB, Spring, 2006

ENGL 100A: Composition A, "Ranting, Raving, Writing," SFAI, Fall, 2005

Rhetoric 2: Public Speaking. UCB, Summer, 2005

Rhetoric 2: Public Speaking. UCB, Summer, 2004

Rhetoric 1A: The Craft of Writing, "Technology and Democracy," UCB, Summer, 2003

Independent Study, K50: "The Rhetoric of Liberal Citizenship," NYU, Gallatin School, Fall, 2002

Rhetoric 1B: The Craft of Writing, "Ranting and Raving," UCB, Fall, 2001

Rhetoric 10: An Introduction to Rhetoric and Argumentation, UCB, Summer, 2001

Rhetoric 1A: The Craft of Writing, "The Presence of the Future," UCB, Spring, 2000

Rhetoric 1B: The Craft of Writing, "The Violence of Everyday Life," UCB, Fall, 1999

Rhetoric 10: An Introduction to the Field of Rhetoric, with Jill Stauffer (Co-Instructor), UCB, Summer, 1999

Rhetoric 1B: The Craft of Writing, "Derangements of Desire," UCB, Spring, 1999

Rhetoric 1B: The Craft of Writing, "The Subject of Pedagogy," UCB, Spring, 1998

Rhetoric 1B: The Craft of Writing, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," UCB, Fall, 1997

As Teaching Assistant in the Department of Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley

Rhetoric 2: Public Speaking. Jennifer Gurley, Instructor. Summer, 2002

Rhetoric 103B: "Texts and Things," Pheng Chea, Instructor. Spring, 2002

Rhetoric 10: Rhetoric and Practical Reasoning. James Salazar, Instructor. Summer, 2000

Rhetoric 20: The Rhetoric of Interpretation. David Wittenberg, Instructor. Fall, 2000

Rhetoric 2: Public Speaking. Ellen Rigsby, Instructor. Summer, 1997

Rhetoric 103B: Theories of Interpretation. Felipe Gutterriez, Instructor. Spring, 1997

Rhetoric 1B: The Craft of Writing, "Criminal Arts." Dina Al-Kassim, Instructor. Fall, 1996

Rhetoric 1B: The Craft of Writing, "Progressive Era America." Pam Lougheed, Instructor. Summer, 1996

Rhetoric 1B: The Craft of Writing, "Theories of the Nation." Rebecca Ratcliff, Instructor. Spring, 1996

Rhetoric 1A: The Craft of Writing. Phil Covitz, Instructor. Fall, 1995