“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. Looking at the combination of practices and methodologies that come about through e-lit’s production, study, and dissemination, these articles explore the disruptive potential of electronic literature to decenter and complement the DH field. Creativity is central and found at all levels and spheres of e-lit, but as the articles in this gathering show, there is a need to redeploy creative practice critically to address the increasing instrumentalization of the digital humanities and to turn the digital humanities towards the digital cultures of the present.
Conceived as an ongoing conversation, rolling out 2-3 articles each month until the end of the year, all contributions are tackling at least one of the four following areas: Building Research Infrastructures and Environments, Exploring Creative Research Practice, Proposing Critical Reading Methodologies, and Applying Digital Pedagogy.
Planned publication schedule
“Introduction: Electronic Literature Frameworks for the Digital Humanities” by Scott Rettberg and Alex Saum – August 2020
Building Research Infrastructures and Environments
“Appealing to your better judgment: A Call for Database Criticism” by Hannah Ackermans – August 2020
“Something there badly not wrong: The Life and Death of Literary Form in Databases” by Joseph Tabbi – August 2020
“Building STEAM for DH and Electronic Literature: An Educational Approach to Nurturing the STEAM Mindset in Higher Education” by Claudia von Vacano et al. – October 2020
“Documenting a Field: The Life and Afterlife of the ELMCIP Collaborative Research Project and Electronic Literature Knowledge Base” by Scott Rettberg – January 2021
Exploring Creative Research Practice
“Digital Creativity as Critical Material Thinking: The Disruptive Potential of Electronic Literature” by Alex Saum – August 2020
“Addressing Significant Societal Challenges Through Critical Digital Media” by Scott Rettberg and Roderick Coover – August 2020
“What Should the System Say? Humanities Interpretation Guiding E-Lit Technology” by Noah Wardrip-Fruin – December 2020
Proposing Critical Reading Methodologies
“Collaborative Reading Praxis” by Jeremy Douglass, Mark Marino and Jessica Pressman – September 2020
“Lit Mods” by Álvaro Seiça – September 2020
“Unhelpful Tools: Reexamining The Digital Humanities through Eugenio Tisselli’s degenerative and regenerative” by Justin Berner – September 2020
“Ethics and Aesthetics of (Digital) Space: National Institutions and Transnational Frameworks of Irish Electronic Literature” by Anne Karhio – October 2020
“Experimental Electronic Literature from the South: A Political Resource for Critical Digital Humanities” by Claudia Kozak – January 2021
“Excavating Logics of White Supremacy in Electronic Literature: Antiracism as Infrastructural Critique” by Ryan Ikeda – January 2021