He is a research fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago. Coover has taught at the School of the the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of California, San Diego. Coover holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1999) and a M.A. from Brown University(1993). His current work includes a number of digital/multimedia documentary projects that incorporate footage recorded in Africa and France. One of these projects, the work Professor Coover will be presenting at the conference, is a recently completed documentary and DVD prototype on the rhetorics of new media and documentary form entitled, "Visualizing Cultures in the Age of Digital Media."