ONLINE PUBLIC INTELLECTUALISM
“Our Mermaid Craze: An Introduction” and a special issue/cluster “Our Mermaid Craze”
ASAP/J: the open-access platform of ASAP/Journal, April 2024
“Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough – just look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fiction”
The Conversation, December 20, 2022
“Entanglements: an exploration of the digital literary work of Joellyn Rock and “FISHNETSTOCKINGS” (a Scalar book) with Mark C. Marino and Diana Leong
The Digital Review, 2022
“Fake Books and Fake News”
Los Angeles Review of Books blog, February 3, 2021
“Moby Dick and Breastfeeding”
Avidly, August 20, 2020
“Brontë’s Cabin Fever”
Avidly, May 29, 2020
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS (selected)
“Reflecting on Bookishness in the Aftermath of COVID-19”“ in Love, Etc.: Essays on Contemporary Literature and Culture, Rita Felski and Camilla Schwartz, eds. University of Virginia Press, 2024.
“Siren: An Allegory for the Anthropocene and Example of the Contemporary Mermaid Craze” in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (May 2024)
“Hooked on Mermaids: Recuperating Personal Passion as Scholarly Research” in the minnesota review 2023 (101): 113–122 as part of a Special Focus: Mobilizing Creativity, Part 2.
“Digital Infrastructures: People, Place, and Passion, a Case Study of SDSU” co-written with Pamella Lach, in People, Practice, Power: Digital Humanities outside the Center – Debates in the Digital Humanities, eds. Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves, Siobhan Senier (University of Minnesota Press, 2022): 189-201.
“Loving Books at the End of the Millennium” in Sjani (annual scientific journal of literary theory and comparative literature, published in the country of Georgia), October 2020
“Electronic” in Further Reading, eds. Matthew Rubery and Leah Price. Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature (Oxford University Press, 2020).
“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).
“Reorienting Ourselves toward the Material: Between Page and Screen as Case Study” Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 317-336. (PDF HERE)
“The Novel in the Digital Age,” The Cambridge Companion to the Novel. ed. Eric Bulson (Cambridge University Press, June 2018). (PDF HERE)
“Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes: Memorial, Fetish, Bookishness” in ASAP/Journal, Volume 3, Number 1, January 2018. (PDF HERE)
“Electronic Literature as Comparative Literature” in Futures of Comparative Literature : ACLA State of the Discipline Report, eds. Ursula K. Heise, with Dudley Andrew, Alexander Beecroft, Jessica Berman, David Damrosch, Guillermina De Ferrari, César Domínguez, Barbara Harlow and Eric Hayot (Routledge, 2017). (PDF HERE)
“Big Novels/Big Data,” American Book Review, 37.2, January/February 2016: p. 14 (PDF HERE)
“The Posthuman Reader in Postprint Literature: Between Page and Screen,” Frame Literary Journal (The Netherlands), no. 28.1 may 2015 | 53 – 69. (PDF HERE)
“Electronic Literature as Comparative Literature”
The 2014 – 2015 Report on the State of the Discipline of Comparative Literature
eds. David Damrosch and Ursula Heise
June 2014 (online)
“Reading (Between) Machine”
Review of Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse’s Between Page and Screen (Siglio Press 2012) in American Book Review, 35:2 (2014)
“The Impact of Old Media on New Media”
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media and Textuality.
eds. Lori Emerson, Benjamin Robertson, Marie-Laure Ryan
Johns Hopkins UP, 2014 (PDF here)
“Whither American Fiction?”
Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945
ed. John Duvall
Cambridge UP, 2012 (PDF here)
“Machine Poetics and Reading Machines: William Poundstone’s Electronic Literature and Bob Brown’s Readies” (PDF here)
American Literary History (Winter 2011)
“Modern Modernisms: Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries and Digital Modernism” (PDF here)
Pacific Rim Modernisms
eds. Steve Yao, Mary Ann Gillies, and Helen Sword
Toronto UP, 2009
“The Aesthetic of Bookishness in 21st-Century Literature: Steven Hall’s The Raw Shark Texts” (PDF here)
The Michigan Quarterly Review
Fall 2009
Translated into Polish and published in “Literatura Eksperrymentalna” in Ha!art (Krakow 2014)
“The Strategy of Digital Modernism: Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries’ Dakota“ (PDF here)
MFS: Modern Fiction Studies Summer 2008
“Navigating Electronic Literature” (PDF here)
Essay for online companion for N. Katherine Hayles’ Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary
Notre Dame UP, 2008
“Reading the Code Between the Words” (PDF here)
Dichtung-Digital
2007
“House of Leaves: Reading the Networked Novel” (PDF here)
Studies in American Fiction
Spring 2006
“Nano Narrative: A Parable from Electronic Literature”
NanoCulture: Implications of the New Technoscience for Literature, Art, and Society
ed. N. Katherine Hayles
Intellect Books, April 2004
CURATED ELECTRONIC LITERATURE EXHIBITIONS
“Charting the Shifting Seas of Electronic Literature’s Past and Present”
Microfolio Editor for tenth anniversary issue of Drunken Boat
July 2009
“Don’t Close Your Eyes: The Flash-ing Art of Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries” (PDF here)
Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries Solo Show General Catalogue Essay
National Museum of Contemporary Art
Athens, Greece
December 2008-March 2009
“Hyper-text: Explorations in Electronic Literature” Reading Series
Curator and Organizer
Los Angeles Hammer Museum
2003-2004
CO-EDITED SPECIAL ISSUES
“Web 2.0 and Literary Criticism”
Post 45 “Contemporaries”
Co-edited with Aarthi Vadde (September 2019)
“The Literary,” A Special Issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly
Co-edited with Lisa Swanstrom (July 2013)
This special issue of DHQ was the first to consider the study of literature and the category of the literary to be an essential part of the digital humanities. The essays in this special issue approach this topic from a wide range of critical perspectives and that focus on diverse objects of study from antiquity to the present as well as born-digital forms.