Rate My Professor Kim Knight

Kim Knight served as Associate Professor of Critical Media Studies in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at The University of Texas at Dallas from 2016 to 2023, following her initial appointment as Assistant Professor of Emerging Media and Communication in 2010. She held key administrative roles including Associate Dean of Graduate Studies from 2017 to 2021 and Area Head of Critical Media Studies from 2017 to 2023. Knight earned her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2011, M.A. with Distinction in English Literature from California State University, Northridge in 2004, and B.A. in English Literature from the same institution in 2001. Her research specializations encompass digital humanities, critical media studies, feminist approaches to technology, wearable interfaces, networked bodies, viral media, data visualization, critical making, and public humanities. As project director for Fashioning Circuits, she explored wearable media, computational craft, domestic technologies, and soft activism through public humanities initiatives. Her scholarly work examines the interplay of power structures and identity in digital culture, particularly gender and intersectional feminism in networked environments.

Knight received the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award from the University of Texas System in 2016, the UT Dallas President’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Instruction in 2020, and the UT Dallas Intercultural Excellence and Inclusive Teaching Award in 2013, among other honors including a Special Faculty Development Assignment in 2016-2017. Key publications include “Stitch n’ Glitch: Teetering on the ‘/’” (with Hong-An Wu, Wendy Sung, and Juan Llamas-Rodriguez) in Hyperrhiz vol. 21 (2019); “Weaving Critical Theory, Fashion, Electronics, and Makerspaces in Learning: Fashioning Circuits—A Case Study” (with Laura Pasquini and Jessica Knott) in Interactive Learning Environments (2018); “Wearable Interfaces, Networked Bodies, and Feminist Sleeper Agents” in The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities (2018); contributions to The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media on “Gender Representation” and “Race and Ethnicity” (2014); and “The Work of iamamiwhoami in the Age of Networked Transmission” in The Projector (2015). She co-edited the special issue “Buzzademia: Scholarship in the Internet Vernacular” for Hyperrhiz (2019), served on editorial boards for University of Michigan Press Digital Culture Series and Hyperrhiz, and contributed to committees such as the Graduate Council and University Committee for the Support of Diversity and Equity. Knight delivered public lectures including “Wearable Interfaces, Networked Bodies, and Feminist Sleeper Agents” at CUNY Digital Initiatives (2018) and “Viral Anxieties in Arts and Antiviral Technology” at UT Dallas (2015).