Philip Klobucar
Associate Professor, Humanities & Social Sciences
973-596-5724
428 Cullimore Hall (CULM)
About Me
Andrew Klobucar is an Associate Professor and the Director of Communication and Media at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey. He specializes in literary and media research in the ongoing development of multi-modal writing for the literary arts, learning design, and social media. He teaches interactive, creative production for nearly all sectors of industry and society.

My current publications continue to closely align with my research interests, focusing on the rapid development of media technologies, with a particular emphasis on the significance of Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) from their emergence in the first decade of the current century to their evolution over the last 20 years. When first developed, their capacity to transform or produce media was confined to text and corpus linguistic tools built primarily for structural analyses of pre-written texts. Clearly, their current capacities to generate nearly all forms of media with less and less human input, through prompt engineering, have ushered in an entirely new epoch in media production. GPTs and their use throughout all professional media production studios now reveal some of the most significant challenges to education as well as all modes of original media composition. Research in this area aims to devise an adequate epistemological response to what is becoming a crisis situation on all cultural and political-economic fronts.
Education
Ph.D. ; University of British Columbia ; Postwar American Poetry ; 1999

M.S. ; Edinburgh University ; Literary Theory ; 1992

B.A. ; University of Toronto ; English ; 1991

Office Hours
W/F 11:30-12:30
Website
http://www.andrewklobucar.com
2025 Fall Courses
IS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

IT 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

IS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN INFO

IS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

IS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES

COM 355 - DIGITAL MEDIA FUTURES

COM 390 - ELECTRONIC WRITING WORKSHOP

IS 489 - INFO UNDERGRAD THESIS RESEARCH

IS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

IS 776 - IS RESEARCH STUDY

IS 491 - SENIOR PROJECT - IS

IS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

IS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

Teaching Interests
Literary Theory, Media Studies, Communication Theory, Social Media Practices, Composition, Digital and Programmable Literature, Technology and Education, History of Technology, Sound production and creative sound art.
Past Courses
COM 303: VIDEO NARATIVE

COM 303: VIDEO NARRATIVE

COM 321: ST: TECHNOLOGY & TACTICS OF SO

COM 321: TECHNOLOGY & TACTICS OF SO

COM 321: TECHNOLOGY & TACTICS OF SOUND

COM 321: TECHNOLOGY & TACTICS OF SOUND - HONORS

COM 325: SPECIAL TOPICS IN COMMUNICATION

COM 325: ST: CLICK AND READ: AN INTRODUCTION TO INTERACTIVE FICTION

COM 325: ST: TECHNIQUES AND TACTICS OF SOUND DESIGN

COM 325: ST: TECHNIQUES AND TACTICS OF SOUND DESIGN - HONORS

COM 325: ST: THE TECHNOLOGY AND TACTICS OF SOUND: A DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSHOP

COM 325: ST:TECHNIQUES AND TACTICS OF SOUND DESIGN

COM 355: CYBERTEXT

COM 355: DIGITAL MEDIA FUTURES

COM 390: ELECTRONIC WRITING WORKSHOP

ENG 302: COMMUNICATION THEORY

ENG 333: CYBERTEXT

ENG 354: COMPOSING DOCUMENTS FOR THE WEB

HSS 403: LIT SEM: ANALYZING SOCIAL NETWORKS

HSS 403: LIT SEM: ELECTRONIC LITERATURE

HUM 101: WRITING,SPEAKING, THINKING I

HUM 325: ST:VIDEO NARRATIVE

PTC 628: ANALYZING SOCIAL NETWORKS

PTC 629: THEORY & PRAC OF SOC MEDIA

PTC 691: EPORTFOLIO CAPSTONE SEMINAR

PTC 698: ST: SOCIAL MEDIA - THEORY & PRA

Research Interests
My research continues to advance along two distinct but strongly interrelated lines of study: the development and application of digital programming and multimedia technologies in the literary arts and the continued refinement of social media networking in university-level pedagogy through ongoing advancements in software development. For almost a century, the literary arts have provided important genres and disciplines that have especially supported experiments in proceduralist-driven cultural production. My research and publications generally argue that efforts to build computer programs for creative language use began as early as the 1950s with Christopher Strachey’s and Alan Turing’s unique attempts to combine literary formats to separate computational models capable of generating readable poetry and fiction. Most Humanities-based researchers, including myself, agree that artworks, regardless of media format, fall under the larger aesthetic category of proceduralism. Currently, my work both in the classroom and at conferences focuses on recent software developments in proceduralism to automate all social communication through AI and Large Language Models (LLM), where Application Programming Interfaces (API) are now capable of attaching writing and information gathering tools to immense neural networks able to process nearly billions of unlabeled text combinations in all genres using near-spontaneous, self-learning procedures. Such developments, I believe, will have a profound impact on how digital communication and education are practiced, as well as how individual courses will be taught, in the immediate future.
Chapter
Philip Andrew Klobucar. "Narrative Interplay in the Digital Era." 2025.

Philip Andrew KLOBUCAR. "When Variables Collaborate: An Introduction to The Algorithm and the Community." In Philip Andrew Klobucar, eds., "The Algorithm and the Community.” The Algorithm and the Community: A Digital Interactive Poetics.," pp. iv-xxxv. 2021.

Philip Andrew Klobucar. "Being Uncreative: From Bronk to Conceptualism in the Arts and Writing." In Edward Foster and Burt Kimmelman, eds., pp. 11. William Bronk in the Twenty-First Century: New Assessments, 2013.

Philip Andrew Klobucar, Paul Deane, Paul Deane, Chaitanya Ramineni, Perry Deess, Alex Runniy, , , , . "Automated Essay Scoring and The Search for Valid Writing Assessment." In Charles. Bazerman, Chris Dean, Jessica Early, Karen Lunsford, Suzie Null, Paul Rogers, and Amanda Stansell, eds., pp. 103-119. Parlor Press, 2012.

Philip Andrew Klobucar. "The Apocalypse will be Televised." In John M. Ulrich (Editor), Andrea L. Harris (Editor) , eds., pp. 286-94. Popular Press, 2003.

Creative Writing
"Glossary of Terms --U-- Urpflanze, n. Ger./ûp-flänz) "
The Capilano Review (TCR), October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2022.

Journal Article
Philip Andrew Klobucar. 2021. "Vagueness Machines: Computational Indeterminacy in the work of Jen Bervin and Nick Montfort." Interferences littéraires/Literaire interferenties: Multilingual e-Journal for Literary Studies, , vol. 25 , no. 2021 .

Philip Andrew Klobucar. 2017. "Poetry’s Execution: Contemporary Writings on the Poetics of Computation.." Humanities , vol. 6 , no. 2 , pp. Web.

Norbert Elliot, Perry Deess, Philip Andrew Klobucar, Regina Collins, Sava Sharla. 2016. "ePortfolios: Foundational Measurement Issues." Journal of Writing Assessment , vol. 9 , no. 2 , pp. Web.

Andrew Klobucar, Nancy Walters Coppola, Norbert Elliot, . 2016. "Programmatic Research in Technical Communication: An Afterword for Writing Program Assessment." Programmatic Perspectives , vol. 8 , no. 2 .

Regina Collins, Norbert Elliot, Philip Andrew Klobucar, Fadi P Deek. 2013. "Web-Based Portfolio Assessment: Validation of an Open Source Platform." Journal of Interactive Learning Research , vol. 24 , no. 1 , pp. 5-32.

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Software
"The WorkBench"
Online, June, 2016.

Conference Proceeding
"Measure for Measure: Moving from Narratives to Timelines in Social Media Networking"
Professional Communication Conference (IPCC) Proceedings, 2013., July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2013.

"Postsecondary Placement and Rapid Assessment: Setting Standards, Engaging Automated Essay Evaluation, and Establishing Signaling Effects"
National Center for Assessment in Higher Education, December, 2012.

"“Players only Love you when they’re Playin’: Community as Algorithm in Programmable Poetics”"
Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice, November, 2012.

Conference Paper
"Web-Based Portfolio Assessment: Validation of an Open Source Platform"
Journal of Interactive Learning Research, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2013.