I am pleased to announce that I will be starting a new venture this academic year– serving as digital humanities consultant for San Diego State University. In a partnership with the incomparable Joanna Brooks (English and Comparative Literature), we will be working to “reboot” the humanities in simple, strategic ways. More soon!

“The Literary”: a special issue of DHQ (Digital Humanities Quarterly), that I co-edited with the wonderful Lisa Swastrom, is now available. http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/preview/index.html
This special issue features thirteen outstanding essays that consider different points of intersection, friction, tension, and opportunity between digital culture and literary technique. We are very proud of this work!

Guess what’s coming to a bookstore near you?

Check it out at the Press’s website: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/comparative-textual-media
Or on Amazon, so pre-order your copy today!

Join me for the last distinguished scholar in the speaker series I organize at UCSD: JOHANNA DRUCKER!

for what promises to be a fascinating conference: Beyond the Text: Literary Archives in the 21st Century (Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, April 26-27, 2013). I’ll be speaking about “Teaching Digital Poetics &/as Archiving” on the “Teaching with Literary Archives” panel, along with some esteemed company: Jacqueline Goldsby (Professor of English & African American Studies, Department of English and African American Studies, Yale University) and Alice Kaplan, (John M. Musser Professor of French, French Department, Yale University). I’m humbled by the company and excited to learn from all gathered.

I was traveling in China for the last 10 days. Fascinating.
And now, I am presenting twice this week (so, wish me luck with jetlag!):

Thursday: On “The Future of Education” panel for Leadership North County
Friday: On Comparative Textual Media, with N. Katherine Hayles, as part of the UCSD Digital Humanities Speaker Series

I’ll be giving a talk at USC on my new research and bookishness book. “The Book is Not the Center: Between Page and Screen, Augmented Digital Poetics, and New Literacies” is about Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse’s fascinating augmented-reality book of poetry, Between Page and Screen (2012).

Come on out!

April 1, 2013
5:00 pm
Leavey Auditorium

I am very proud of the electronic literature reading event I organized at UCSD on Friday. I was inspired by the readers– Erik Loyer, Amaranth Borsuk, and Samantha Gorman & Danny Cannizzaro– and by the turnout!

Many thanks to all who came and, of course, to those who read.

I’m heading to Iowa this week to give two talks: one at Coe College and one at University of Iowa. My thanks to my dear dissertation sister, Professor Melissa Sodeman (at Coe), for arranging it.

Here’s the info on the talk at Coe and at IU, on pressman-poster-rev

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!