In her review of the Electronic Literature Collection, Adalaide Morris insists that the collection is, emphatically, a collection of “literature” in electronic media, a genre in development since the first-generation hypertext poetry and fiction of the mid-1980s.

John Zuern’s review of the ELC also touches on the pedagogical possibilities of the collection. John Zuern’s review of the ELC also touches on the pedagogical possibilities of the collection.

Adalaide Morris more specifically considers the ‘tutor texts’ in the Electronic Literature Collection and, in doing so, articulates a poetics for the emerging field of e-lit. Chris Funkhouser, on the other hand, reads the Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 1 as an effective reflection of literary expression and areas of textual exploration in digital form.

David Zauhar provides a critical overview of Perloff’s oeuvre from the 1990s and similarly reads her readings as ways of doing, rather than saying.

Jerome McGann addresses on ebr the so-called “Crisis in the Humanities” in the context of two of its most apparent symptoms: the digital transformation of our museums and archives, and the explicitly parallel “Crisis in Tenure and Publishing” that has more recently come to attention.