The new year is here, and along with it the new line-up of esteemed scholars working in the digital humanities who have generously agreed to visit UCSD and share their insights with us. Here’s what I’ve got lined up for the next few months….
Come join us!
I am a scholar of 20th and 21st-century American literature. My work examines how technologies affect our understanding of aesthetics and reading practices. I pursue these connections across literary and artistic experiments from the 20th and 21st centuries and across media forms.
For the last four years, I was privileged to be Assistant Professor of English at Yale University. I recently moved, with my family, back to my hometown in San Diego. After many years away, I am happy to be here, grateful to be a Visiting Scholar in the Literature Department at UCSD and a Lecturer in Sixth College’s Culture, Art, and Technology Program at UCSD, and I honored to hold an ACLS Collaborative Fellowship for 2012-2013.
I am finishing three books, all under contract with university presses:
Digital Modernism: Making it New in New Media reads contemporary works of digital literature in relation to literary modernism (Oxford UP); Close Reading Electronic Literature, a Case Study of William Poundstone’s “Project for the Tachistoscope: [Bottomless Pit]” (Iowa Press UP), with Mark C. Marino and Jeremy Douglass, presents a case study of collaborative interpretation for digital poetics and digital humanities scholarship by weaving together three radically different methodological approaches—close reading onscreen aesthetics, critical code studies, and data visualizations– into a close reading of a single born-digital literary work; and the volume, co-edited with N. Katherine Hayles, Making, Critique: A New Paradigm for the Humanities (Minnesota UP), collects essays by a wide variety of scholars who analyze text across diverse media formats and historical periods to argue that literary criticism should reconsider how the study of text is a study of media.
I’ve also started a new book project, Bookishness, which focuses on how 21st-century literature and literary culture—both in print and online— responds to the threat of an increasingly paperless and multimodal society.