Sometimes you wait a long time for a piece to be published, and sometimes it looks like you’ve been super productive because a bunch of things come out at the same time. Spring 2019 is such a time….

“Circling Back: Electronic Literature and Material Feminism,” The Handbook of Contemporary Feminism, eds. Andrea Press and Tasha Oren (Routledge, 2019).

“Contexts of Digital Literature Criticism: Feminist, Queer, Materialist” in Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, eds. Anne Karhio and Álvaro Seiça (Spring 2019) (online)

“There’s Nothing Quite Like a Real Book”: Stop-Motion Bookishness” in Medium, Object, Metaphor: The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture, eds. Heike Schaefer and Alexander Starre (Palgrave, 2019).

I’m proud to be named “Most Influential Faculty Member” for the second year in a row: last year it was for the English side, and this year for the Comparative Literature side!

Looks like I really have to finish the book because Columbia University Press plans to publish it next year! So excited.

So excited to be accepted to participate in this!:

Love Etc. conference 
Uses of Literature Research Group (led by Rita Felski)
University of Southern Denmark
October 3-4, 2019

Just published in the latest special issue of Comparative Literature, “The Material Turn in Comparative Literature,” edited by Kiene Brillenburg Wurth:

“Reorienting Ourselves toward the Material: Between Page and Screen as Case Study” Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 317-336.

The Cambridge Companion to the Novel (2018) containing my essay, “The Novel in the Digital Age”

The ​​201​​8 Outstanding Graduating Senior in English is Delaney Nicole Dougher. She has selected Professor Jessica Pressman as her Most Influential Faculty member.

I’m in astounding company: