[…]fiction, comics, and television has appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Canadian Review of American Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, and Southern Literary Journal, as well as the anthologies Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather (2007) and The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing is a Way of Thinking […]
David Haeselin is a PhD candidate in Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. His dissertation examines how the search engine comes to dominate the American cultural imagination over the course of twentieth century. Accordingly, his research interests include media theory, twentieth century American fiction, the history of information science and science fiction. For more detail, please visit davidhaeselin.com. […]
[…](Dalkey Archive, 2004). In 2005 he was a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies in St. Petersburg, Russia. Joseph Conte is Professor of English at the University at Buffalo. His book, Debris & Design: A Chaotics of Postmodern American Fiction, received the Elizabeth Agee Prize from the University of Alabama Press in 2002. He also contributed to The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction (Dalkey Archive, 2004). In 2005 he was a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies in St. Petersburg, […]
Jason Mittell is Professor of Film & Media Culture and American Studies at Middlebury College. He is the author of Genre & Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture (Routledge, 2004), Television & American Culture (Oxford UP, 2009), Complex Television: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling (NYU Press, forthcoming), and co-editor of How to Watch Television (NYU Press, 2013), as well as numerous essays about film and media studies. He runs the blog Just […]
[…]The Serious Pleasures of Suspense (winner of the 2004 Perkins Prize for the best book in narrative studies) and Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts. She is now at work on a book to be called Strategic Formalism: Shape, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network. Caroline Levine is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She’s the author of two books: The Serious Pleasures of Suspense (winner of the 2004 Perkins Prize for the best book in narrative studies) and Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts. She is now at work on a book to be called Strategic Formalism: Shape, […]
[…]wagons in the medieval city of York and a detailed analysis of the previously unpublished source code to Will Crowther’s original “Colossal Cave” text-adventure game. He has published a video course with Packt Publications, “Building Games with Scratch […]
[…]of Oregon. Her research interests include ecofeminism, the environmental humanities, disability studies, and comics studies, with a particular emphasis on graphic […]
[…]and “The Mysteries of Postmodernism, or, Fredric Jameson’s Gothic Plots” in Gothic […]
[…]A central issue for me is: what could digital forms reveal about poetic language that conventional critical writing cannot? To explore this, in the late 90s, I began to experiment with “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hazard,” the Mallarmé poem often cited as the forerunner to concrete and modern visual poetry. Simply put, it seemed to me proto-digital more than proto-concrete. It became an interactive CD-Rom (sounds quaint now!) containing translations and critical interventions impossible on paper, but seemingly implicit. Since then, I’ve focused on the Readers Project (with John Cayley and Daniel Howe), making poems embodying elements […]
[…]that ask students to consider not only what they write, but how. She is currently at work on a critical book, “The Upright Script: Modernist Mediations and Contemporary Data […]