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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.