Brandon Jernigan

Hi, I'm Brandon. I'm a versatile leader with extensive experience in design, user experience, and corporate communications. I bring a powerful blend of creativity and strategic thinking to my work.

As a UX Strategist, I work at the intersection of Human-Centered Design and AI. For more than a decade, I've focused on shaping user experience in a rapidly evolving technological landscape. I have a passion for driving UI/UX improvements and working with senior leaders to address emerging challenges posed by cutting-edge AI tools.

As a Strategic Communications Partner, I craft effective communication strategies that support key business objectives. I love the interplay of the technical and strategic in my work, and I balance clear critical thinking with genuine empathy for audiences. I'm particularly passionate about the role communications can play in early start-ups and remote-first work environments.

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Selected Projects

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My areas of expertise include User Experience and Interface Design, Corporate Communications, and Communications Strategy.

Currently, I work at Research Square, a company dedicated to improving the cycle of research, publishing, and discovery. I also hold a Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois.

Writing

  CC BY 4.0
Artificial intelligence in manuscript preparation

Back in 2020, Kurt Spurlock and I discussed how publishers and authors could benefit from AI and machine learning.

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On Conrad's sea fiction

At a moment in imperial history when the recognition of global interdependence and antagonism threatens the ideological, economic, and political underpinnings of imperialism, Conrad adapts the flexibility of sea fiction to confront this mounting pressure on the imperial consciousness and thus to reconstruct a more flexible representation of imperial relations.

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The fairy tales of Oscar Wilde

By undermining the core generic expectations of the fairy tale, Wilde exposes the instrumental logic of colonialism as well as the unrealizable longing, on the part of the colonized, for a national identity uncorrupted by colonial trauma.

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Writing Tips

Two articles on common grammar issues in scientific writing: "A Few vs. Few" and "Singular and Plural Forms in Scientific Writing" on AJE Scholar.

Book Reviews

I have reviewed academic books for Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies and Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN)

  Dissertation   Repository
Forms of Some Intenser Life

My dissertation examined generic innovation in the British novel through the lens of an empire thrown into crisis by repeated insurgencies. Experiments with genre, I argued, allowed fin de siecle writers to develop new narrative forms capable of representing an increasingly global, interdependent, and actively anti-imperialist world.

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