[…]to the emergent literary genre known as “Afro-Futurism” for the journal Science Fiction Studies, with Mark Bould. At present, he is co-editing, with Eric Dean Rasmussen, a collection of critical essays on and around American Genius: A Comedy, by novelist Lynne […]
[…]media and technology projects. He lives in New York City. Sven Philipp received his B.A. in Media Studies from Sussex University (UK) and holds an M.A. in English and American Studies from Bayreuth University (Germany). He currently is a Visiting Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Center for Education Research and Evaluation, working on various interactive media and technology projects. He lives in New York […]
[…]and Art History. His books on hypertext and digital culture include Hypermedia and Literary Studies (MIT, 1991), and The Digital Word: Text-Based Computing in the Humanities (MIT, 1993) both of which he edited with Paul Delany, and Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology (Hopkins UP, 1992), which has appeared in various European and Asian languages and as Hypertext in Hypertext (Hopkins UP, 1994), a greatly expanded electronic version with original texts by Derrida, reviews, student interventions, and works by other authors. In 1997, he published a much-expanded, completely revised version as Hypertext 2.0. He has also edited […]
[…]in the realm of pain. Dr. Gromala is the founding director of the Transforming Pain Research Group, an interdisciplinary team of artists, designers, computer scientists, neuroscientists and medical doctors investigating how new technologies—ranging from virtual reality and robotics to social media—may be used as a technological form of analgesia and pain management. Gromala holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Yale University and the University of Plymouth, England, and misspent her youth in the 1980s working in the Silicon Valley, mostly at Apple […]
[…]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 […]