Design to do: Create the bios page

[jgg3mb]

Could everyone upload a bio and their headshot from Shane to the comment section of this ticket? Thank you!

[jgg3mb]

[jgg3mb]

The design should look like this ("DASH Amerikan" title," black bar, then black box with "bios," all lowercase, with Playfair font):

[ac6cw]

Alicia is a doctoral candidate studying eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art and material culture at the University of Virginia. Her dissertation, “Étienne-Maurice Falconet and the Matter of Sculpture: Marble, Porcelain, and Sugar in Eighteenth-Century Paris,” poses the Academic sculptor as a nexus between Enlightenment aesthetic theory and the mass-production of sculpture during the burgeoning consumer culture of the 1760s. Her research aims to explore the intersections between fine arts and decorative arts, sculpture’s role in a broadening global economy, and the relationship between marble and ephemeral forms of artistic production.

[alycollins]

Alyssa Collins is a PhD candidate in the English department at the University of Virginia. Her dissertation “Racing the Posthuman: Examining Representations of Technological and Virtual Embodiment” looks at the intersections of race and technology as depicted in 20th century and contemporary African American literature, digital culture, and new media. When she's not writing her dissertation she writes about race, superheroes, and embodiment around the Internet.

[jmtiv]

Joseph Thompson is a doctoral candidate in the Corcoran Department of History. His dissertation, “Sounding Southern: Music, Militarism, and the Making of the Sunbelt,” uses music to examine the cultural impact of the military-industrial complex since the 1950s. This analysis draws on methods of cultural history, political history, and sound studies to consider the shifting meanings of race, region, and citizenship over the last half of the twentieth century.

[jgg3mb]

Just need bios for Jordan and Sarah and your head shot, Sarah.

[jdbuysse]

Jordan Buysse is a PhD student in English whose dissertation, “The Word and the Bit: Information in 20th/21st Century Literature,” argues for ‘information’ as a key aesthetic term for modern and contemporary literature. He is also interested in quantitative methods for literary studies, critical theory, and the marketing of consumer electronics. (It's not letting me upload the headshot for some reason: will keep trying)

[jgg3mb]

I got your head shot already, Jordan. No worries.