[…]Out in Public: Configurations of Women’s Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America. She’s currently working on a book on young feminist cultural productions. Alison Piepmeier examines the differences in postfeminism and third-wave feminism. Bio.: Alison Piepmeier is director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and assistant professor of English at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC. She’s the editor of Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century and author of Out in Public: Configurations of Women’s Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America. She’s currently working on a book on young feminist cultural […]
[…]on Pynchon and Postnationalism. Sascha Pöhlmann is a Ph.D. student and lecturer in American Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. He is currently working on a dissertation on Pynchon and […]
[…]and Director of the Critical Media Lab. His published research, including E-Crit: Digital Media, Critical Theory and the Humanities (University of Toronto Press, 2006) is concerned primarily with the fate of the humanities in a digital culture. O’Gorman’s most recent work investigates the “collusion of death and technology.” This is the topic of his most recent book, Necromedia, published in the Posthumanities Series at University of Minnesota Press in 2015. As an advocate of research/creation, O’Gorman is also a practicing artist, working primarily with physical computing inventions and architectural installations. Samples of his work may be viewed at […]
[…]Professor of English at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Christian Moraru specializes in critical theory, contemporary American literature, and comparative studies. His latest books are Rewriting: Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique in the Age of Cloning (2001), and Memorious Discourse: Reprise and Representation in Postmodernism […]
[…]and media history in the contemporary novel. Paul Benzon teaches contemporary literature, media studies, and critical writing at Temple University. He is currently at work on a project on formal experimentation and media history in the contemporary […]
[…]late fiction of Cormac McCarthy for publication. Anthony Warde recently completed his doctoral studies at the University of Sheffield and is Associate Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Critical Theory at Sheffield Hallam University. He is currently preparing his monograph on narrative themes and stylistic techniques in the late fiction of Cormac McCarthy for […]
[…]of Victoria, Canada. She teaches courses in the areas of contemporary cultural theory, Animal Studies, and Canadian Literature. The author of Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times (Minnesota 2009), she is presently working on a manuscript that examines how animals labour affectively in therapeutic economies of late […]
[…]of Western Sydney, Australia and writes across the fields of textual, media and cultural studies with a particular focus on affect theory, mimetic communication and fictocriticism. She was Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council funded project “The Power of the Image: affect, audience & disturbing imagery” with Virginia Nightingale (2006-9) and has recently completed a second ARC Discovery Grant with Maria Angel and PI Professor Joseph Tabbi (University of Illinois, Chicago), entitled: “Creative Nation: writers and writing in the image culture.” The project includes the construction of ADELTA (the Australian Directory of Electronic Literature and Text-based Art). Gibbs’s 2010 […]
[…]Philosophy (Aesthetics) from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1988. Since 1993 he has been working as the independent scholar and the principal investigator at national and international research projects on cyberarts, e-literature and the Internet culture. He is the author of seven scientific monographs in the fields of cultural studies, digital literature and aesthetics published in Slovenia (the last is Text and the New Media, 2007). His most recent essays written in English are included as book chapters in Reading Moving Letters (ed. by R. Simanowski et al.), Regards Croisses (ed. by Ph. Bootz and Ch. Baldwin), V sieti […]
Robert Lestón is working on a book that studies autonomous communities and their relation to social movements. His work has appeared in Configurations, Kairos, Enculturation, Itineration, Atlantic Journal of Communication, and other venues. He is also coauthor of Beyond the Blogosphere: Information and Its Children (2012) with Aaron Barlow. He is an Associate Professor at CUNY, NYC College of […]