Jon Heggestad

Visiting Assistant Professor Digital Studies

Articles

“Revisiting Queer and Trans Representation in Junior.” Camera Obscura, 2023. (Forthcoming)

“Are You My Progeny?: Academic Labor as Reproduction.” Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, 2023. (Forthcoming)

“On Frankenstein and How (Not) to Be a Queer Parent.” Victoriographies, vol. 13, no. 2, 2023, pp. 131-150.

How to Bring Your Tamagotchis Up Gay: The Original Virtual Pets as Queer Digital Artifacts.” The International Journal of Creative Research, vol. 10, 2023.

Pregnant Teen Wolf: The Border Wars of Mpreg Fics.” Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 39, 2023.

“The War of Desire and Technology in Dream Daddy.” Screen Bodies, vol. 8, no. 1, 2023, pp. 71-81.

Aimlessly Playing Around’: Queer Affordances in Graduate Student DH Projects.” Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH), vol. 3, no. 1, 2023.

Visual Rhetoric Remix.” The Comparative Media Arts Journal, vol. 12, September, 2022.

‘Characteristics of the Hands’: Gender, Race, and Palmistry in The Sign of Four.” Humanities Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 2, December, 2021, pp. 87-98.

“Paranoid Viewers & the ‘Already Knowing’ of YouTube’s Coming Out Genre.” Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, vol. 6, no. 2, September, 2021, pp. 105-122.

Bandersnatch-ed Pedagogy: Narrative, Database, and Twine.” Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH), vol. 2, no. 1, September, 2021.

“‘We Taught You How to Dance’: Cultural Inheritance in David Levithan’s Two Boys Kissing.” The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 44, no. 1, January, 2020, pp. 1-16.

“The Term ‘Old Sport’ in The Great Gatsby (1925).” Notes & Queries, vol.63, no. 3, September, 2018, pp. 413-415. (Co-authored with Dr. Elyse Graham).

Book Reviews

“Behind Closed Doors: Sex Education Transformed by Natalie Fiennes (review).” Gender Forum, vol. 78, 2020, pp. 39-41.

Book Chapters

“Broadcast Your Queer Youth: YouTube and the LGBTQ+ Coming Out Genre,” Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood, edited by Mary Zaborskis, Routledge, 2024. (Forthcoming)

“The Long Recovery from Gay Conversion Therapy in Fair Haven and I Am Michael,” The Gay Return: Queer Representation Revisits, Challenges, and New Directions, edited by Amanda Rutherford and Sarah Baker, Routledge, 2024. (Forthcoming)

Cruel Intentions”; “Every Day”; “I Am Michael”; “Kill Your Darlings”; and “King Cobra.” The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film, edited by Erica Joan Dymond and Salvador Jimenez Murguia, Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.

Online Publications

‘Black Mirror’ Episode ‘Beyond the Sea’ is a Brutal Reflection of Toxic Masculinity in the Digital Age,” Xtra* Magazine.

“­­­AI Art Like the ‘RuPublicans’ is Part of a Long Lineage of Queer Remixing,” Xtra* Magazine, 2023.

Google is Still the Arbiter of Life’s Big Questions,” Xtra* Magazine, 2023.

How Getting Ghosted by Chatbot Showed Me the Bot’s True Colours,” Xtra* Magazine, 2023.

Why We Shouldn’t Rely on TikTok to Tell Us We’re Gay,” Xtra* Magazine, 2023.

Paper and NO Pencil,” Nightingale (featured data visualization), 2022.

How (and Why) I Bent the Rules to Raise a Gay Tamagotchi,” Input Magazine, 2022.

Humanizing Data,” Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces, 2022.

The New Male Pregnancy,” In Media Res, 2021.

Twine Storytelling as Study Aid,” Inside Higher Ed: GradHacker, 2020.

One Last Data Visualization,” SBU Center for Digital Humanities (CDH), 2020.

Bringing Data Visualizations to the Humanities Dissertation,” SBU CDH, 2020.

Joining a Reading Group,” GradHacker, 2020.

Information Literacy & the Ethics of Data Visualizations,” SBU CDH, 2020.

An Introduction to Data Visualizations,” SBU CDH, 2020.

Staying Connected in Grad School,” GradHacker, 2020.

Quit Playing Games with My Heart,” Public Books, 2019.

Review of Learning Queer Identity in the Digital Age,” HASTAC, 2019.

Numbered Lives: Kick Off Interview,” HASTAC (Co-authored with Nehal El-Hadi), 2019.

Discussion of Numbered Lives, Introduction,” HASTAC, 2019.

Takei, George,” Electronic Literature Directory, 2019.

Review of The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media,” HASTAC, 2019.

Stray from Home: Inter-, Multi-, and Transdisciplinarity,” SBU English Blog, 2019.

A Map for Cyborgs,” Philome.la, 2018.

Weaving, Coding & Storytelling,” HASTAC, 2018.

‘Culture First’: An Interview with Jentery Sayers,” HASTAC, 2018.

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