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“Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities,” edited by Scott Rettberg and Alex Saum-Pascual, gathers a selection of articles exploring the evolving relationship between electronic literature and the digital humanities in Europe, North and South America. The collection was originally presented at the Summer 2019 [Frame]works conference at UC Berkeley. This exciting gathering will continue in every issue of ebr until December 2020. See the planned publication schedule. * ebr is delighted to announce that our Editorial Board has expanded to include four new Editors. I… continue

“Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities,” edited by Scott Rettberg and Alex Saum-Pascual, gathers a selection of articles exploring the evolving relationship between electronic literature and the digital humanities in Europe, North and South America. The collection was originally presented at the Summer 2019 [Frame]works conference at UC Berkeley. This exciting gathering will continue in every issue of ebr until December 2020. See the planned publication schedule. * In “Digital Creativity as Critical Material Thinking: The Disruptive Potential of Electronic Lite… continue

This month, ebr is publishing three essays, one riPOSTe, and one book review. * Anna Nacher’s “Gardening E-Literature (or, how to effectively plant the seeds for future investigations on electronic literature)” offers a glimpse into “semi-peripheral avant-gardes” that are more open than other fields of digital culture to decolonization, and not restricted to the Anglophone world. Exploring Scott Rettberg’s Electronic Literature (2018), she describes “planting the seeds for future research on e-literature” as a call for an intertwined, mutually aware, and diverse understanding and inclusivity o… continue

On Sunday, electronic book review and The Digital Review chose to postpone our launch of the inaugural issue of tdr until today, Tuesday, June 9, out of respect for George Floyd’s memorial service this weekend and in support of related activities on Monday. In alignment with the ELO Board of Directors, we stand in solidarity with the Black community. Black Lives Matter. * We would like to announce the launch of our sibling publication, The Digital Review, led by Will Luers and Joseph Tabbi. Please check out our inaugural issue, “Digital Essayism,” for born-digital essays and works by J.R. Carp… continue

We would like to issue a formal correction to our last newsletter. ebr was founded in 1995 by Mark Amerika, Joseph Tabbi, and Ron Sukenick, so 2020 marks its 25th anniversary. This month’s issue is a special gathering—ebr’s largest ever—by Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez and James O’Sullivan of select works from the 2019 Meeting of the Electronic Literature Organization in Cork, Ireland. With 19 works in total, this issue commemorates the conference through keynote addresses, scholarly essays, and artistic reflections. In the Keynote Addresses of this gathering, the April 2020 issue of ebr was delight… continue