{"id":363,"date":"2021-08-15T16:12:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T16:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/?page_id=363"},"modified":"2021-08-26T17:11:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T17:11:29","slug":"calvin-olsen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/participants\/calvin-olsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Calvin Olsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Calvin Olsen (he\/him\/his)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" src=\"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/files\/2021\/08\/Calvin-Olsen.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/files\/2021\/08\/Calvin-Olsen.png 200w, https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/files\/2021\/08\/Calvin-Olsen-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #333333\">Research and Instruction Assistant<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #333333\">NC State University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description of Work:<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #333333\"><br \/>\nI am currently a third-year doctoral student in the Communication, Rhetoric, &amp; Digital Media program at NC State University. With a background in creative writing and English literature, most of my current research lands somewhere among the intersections of electronic literature, visual\/bodily rhetoric, the medical humanities, and all things Frankenstein (to name a few).<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #333333\"><br \/>\nI am particularly interested in materiality (thing-ness, for lack of a more confusing explanation) and how the human body reacts to deliberately-designed spaces, places, and texts. I&#8217;m still working to narrow down my scope a bit, but here are two examples of current projects that illustrate what I&#8217;m attempting to corral: (1) I am writing a journal article that analyzes the architecture of a hospital entryway to see if its visual components create (or presents, or at least adds to) an environment of wellness, and (2) I helped design and build a touch interface using conductive paint (paint that conducts electricity) that can generate readings of Mary Shelley&#8217;s Frankenstein on a computer screen when someone touches the paint.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #333333\"><br \/>\nMost of my other work is centered on critical making (learning through creating things) and digital humanities. And when I&#8217;m not nerding out about one or all of these, I write poetry and translate the work of Jo\u00e3o Lu\u00eds Barreto Guimar\u00e3es, a poet-surgeon from Portugal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact:\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #333333\">colsenv @ncsu.edu |\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/Calvin-olsen.com\">http:\/\/Calvin-olsen.com<\/a>\u00a0| @cal_olsen (Twitter)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calvin Olsen (he\/him\/his) Research and Instruction Assistant NC State University Description of Work: I am currently a third-year doctoral student in the Communication, Rhetoric, &amp; Digital Media program at NC State University. With a background in creative writing and English &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/participants\/calvin-olsen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-363","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363\/revisions\/427"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}