“Follow the Mermaid: Reclaiming the Commons via Contemporary Mermaid Literature” on an all-mermaid panel (!)
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) + AESS 2023 Conference
Portland, Oregon
July 9-12, 2023
SPRING 2023: I was on sabbatical, and during the two months of April-May, I was a scholar in residence at the University of Hamburg, Germany as part of the ERC-funded research project “Poetry in the Digital Age” investigates contemporary poetry and its forms of medial presentation. Funded by an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC), it is situated between literary studies, cultural studies and inter-art research (acronym: PoetryDA).
I gave the following talks while in Europe:
-Utrecht University, The Netherlands. April 14, 2023
-University of Münster, Germany: April 27, 2023
-Hamburg University: April 25, 2023
-“Oceanic Digital Poetry: A Paradigm for 21st-Century Poetics”–Conference Presentation at “Audioliterary Poetry Between Performance And Mediatization,” May 11-13, Hamburg University
“Mermaids, Media, and Monsters” with Diana Leong and Mark C. Marino
USC
November 18, 2022
In conversation with Matthew Kirschenbaum, for “Life in Pixels” series
University of Notre Dame
February 9, 2022
On Zoom
Guest lecture for Grad Class at University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, on Electronic Literature and Reading Practices
December 17, 2022
on Zoom
Lecture on Bookishness for University of San Diego’s University of the Third Age (U3A)
January 13, 2022
On Zoom
Lecture on Bookishness for the UCSD Osher Institute for Lifelong Learners
October 25, 2021
On zoom
Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Literatures and Cultures (UK)
Discussion about Bookishness
May 19, 2021
On Zoom
UC Santa Cruz’s Computational Media Department invited speaker series
May 17, 2021
On Zoom
Invited speaker for “Current Trends in Human Sciences & Humanities” University Doctoral School in the Humanities Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
April 15, 2021
On Zoom
“MATLIT: new books and further readings” a book talk and conversation about Bookishness with Professor Manuel Portela University of Coimbra, Portugal
April 13, 2021
On Zoom.
Book talk on Bookishness, for the American Antiquarian Society’s Program in the History of the Book lecture series, on Zoom
September 24, 2020
Watch archived video of the talk on AAS’s Yubetube channel
Love Etc. conference
Uses of Literatures: The Social Dimensions of Literature Research Group (led by Rita Felski)
University of Southern Denmark
Odense, Denmark
October 3-4, 2019
Plenary Keynote: “Loving Books at the end of the Millennium”
Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature, Georgian Comparative Literature Association’s The XIII International Symposium: “Political Events of the 1980-90s and Literary Discourse”
Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Tbilisi, Georgia
September 25-27, 2019
“How Texts Find Us: The Invisible Infrastructures of Online Reading and Research”
American Comparative Literature Association conference
Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
March 7-10, 2019
“Being Bookish: Objects and Selves, or On the Importance of My MacBook Book Computer Case”
Panel titled “Literary Attachments”
Association for the Study of Arts of the Present (ASAP)
October 17-20, 2018
New Orleans, U.S.A.
“DH at SDSU: Modeling Library-Faculty Partnerships”
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Conference
San Diego, CA
April 12, 2018
Invited Speaker and Participant in Workshop on Electronic Literature as a Framework for the Digital Humanities
Berkeley Centre for New Media
University of California, Berkeley
April 5-6, 2018
Invited Speaker to “The Futures of Literature, Science, and Media,” a one-day workshop hosted by the Program in Literature in honor of Professor Katherine Hayles
Duke University, North Carolina
November 17, 2017
Roundtable: Continuity as Critique
ASAP Conference (Association for the Study of Arts of the Present)
UC Berkeley, CA
October 26-29, 2017
“E-LIT &/AS MEMORY” panel Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Festival “Affiliations, Communities, Translations”
University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal
July 18-22, 2017
Keynote Speaker for UCLA Southland Graduate Conference, “Critical Recursions“
June 9-10, 2017
“Contexts of Digital Literature Criticism: Feminist, Queer, Materialist”
Invited Speaker for the conference “Other Codes: Digital Literatures in Context”
Galway, Ireland
May 11-12, 2017
“Electronic Literature as Feminist Literature: Caitlin Fisher’s Circle“
Modern Language Association Conference
Philadelphia, PA
January 5-8, 2017
“Pry-ing Open the Contemporary Novel”
The Contemporary Novel and Visual Art, Post45 Panel
Modern Language Association Conference
Philadelphia, PA
January 5-8, 2017
“Bookishness: Fetishizing the Book in the Moment of its Disappearance”
Love Library, room 430
San Diego State University
December 6, 2016, 4pm
“Circle-ing Back to What Matters: Electronic Literature as Material Feminism”
Electronic Literature Organization Conference
Victoria, B.C.
June 20-12, 2016
“Kitsch Bookishness: J.J. Abram’s S.”
Invited Speaker for International Conference, “Charisma of the Book: Global Perspectives”
NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
March 14-16, 2016
Building a DH Program by Building a Regional Network
with Maura Giles-Watson (USD) and Katherine Hijar (CSU-San Marcos)
The Digital Humanities Infrastructure Symposium
UCLA Center for Digital Humanities
February 26, 2016
Book Talk: Collaborative Reading Practices in the Digital Humanities
Authors of Reading Project
with special guest William Poundstone
12:00 – 1:30 PM (
USC, Los Angeles
November 20, 2015
Keyn
ote Speaker for International Conference, “Medium, Object, Metaphor: The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture”
University of Konstanz, Germany
November 5 to 7, 2015
Presentation on NEH-Sponsored Project, “Building and Strengthening Digital Humanities through a Regional Network”
The National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington D.C.
September 24, 2015
Keynote Lecture & Masterclass: “Bookishness”
The International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)
University of Giessen, Germany
November 11-12, 2014
Invited Lecture for “Expanded Writing” Symposium
“Bookishness”
“Bookish Electronic Literature: Remediating the Paper Arts through a Feminist Perspective”
Electronic Literature Organization Conference
Milwaukee, WI
June 19-21, 2014
“Transmedial Collaboration: new approaches to electronic literature”
With Mark Marino
UC Santa Barbara
April 3, 2013
“Women, Collaboration, and New Media”
Organized by MLA Committee for the Status of Women in the Profession
Modern Language Association Conference
Chicago
January 8-12, 2014
“Reading Project: A Collaborative Approach to Digital Literary Criticism”
Western Humanities Alliance Conference: New Modes of Scholarly Communication
UCSD
November 1, 2013
“Teaching Digital Poetics &/as Archiving”
Beyond the Text: Literary Archives in the 21st Century
Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
April 26-27, 2013
Invited Speaker, “The Book is Not the Center: Between Page and Screen, Augmented Digital Poetics, and New Literacies”
USC
April 1, 2013
“STEM, Arts, and Women”
Invited Speaker for National Women’s History Month
Cesar Chavez Middle School
March 29, 2013
Invited Speaker, “Electronic Literature: Literary Studies in/of the 21st-Century”
Coe College
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
February 21, 2013
Invited Speaker, “The Book is Not the Center: Between Page and Screen, Augmented Digital Poetics, and New Literacies”
Iowa Center for the Book
February 22, 2013
“Electronic Literature: A Challenge to and Case Study of Canonicity”
Panel: “Off Center: Contemporary Poetics and the Canon” Chaired by Prof. Michael Davidson (UCSD, Literature), Brian M Reed (University of Washington, Seattle) and Bob Perelman (University of Pennsylvania).
Canonical Forms in Evolution: an inter-disciplinary conference
UCSD (Michel de Certeau Room of the Literature building)
February 12, 2013
See coverage in the San Diego Union Tribune. (January 15, 2013)
“Printed Books, Digital Poetics, and the Aesthetic of Bookishness”
SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) special panel: “Printing Science”
Modern Language Association
Boston, MA
January 3, 2013
“It’s Alive!” Tree of Codes‘s Zombie Aesthetic”
Invited Speaker
University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands
November 7, 2012
“Between Page and Screen, an Augmented-Reality Book, and What it Says about Books in the Digital Age”
Invited Speaker
University of Utrecht
The Netherlands
November 5, 2012
“Bookishness in Contemporary Literature”
“Back the Book” Symposium
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
May 28-30, 2012
“Books Will Save Us: Tree of Codes, Woman’s World, and Bookish Bookwork”
UC Santa Barbara
April 5, 2012
“Digital Literacy: New Ways of Reading, Writing, and Knowing in the Digital Age”
Pacific Hills School
West Hollywood, CA
October 26, 2011
Organizer and Speaker for panel titled “Electronic Literature and The Book”
Post45 Conference
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Cleveland, OH
April 29-30, 2011
Organizer and Moderator for Special Session Panel, “Electronic Literature: Off the Screen”
MLA Convention
Los Angeles, CA
January 8, 2011
“The Tachistoscope and Digital Literature”
Panel titled “Old Media”
Organized by Kate Flint
MLA Convention
Los Angeles, CA
January 7, 2011
“Digital Literature and Digital Modernism: New Literature and Literary Tradition”
Yale Family Weekend Lecture
As the recipient of the Sarai Ribicoff Teaching Award, I have been invited to be a special lecturer for Family Weekend. I will give a lecture and participate on a panel titled “Why I Teach?” moderated by Dean Mary Miller, Dean of Yale College and Sterling Professor of History of Art.
New Haven, CT
October 22, 2010
“Digital Modernism: Making it New in New Media”
HUMlab Seminar
Umeå University, Sweden
October 12, 2010
“Intersecting Approaches to Electronic Literature: Close-Reading Code, Content, and Cartographies in William Poundstone’s ‘Project for the Tachistoscope: [Bottomless Pit]’”
with Mark C. Marino and Jeremy Douglass
ELO Conference
Brown University
June 3-6, 2010
Seeded Speaker and Roundtable Moderator: “The State of the Archive: Authors, Scholars, and Curators on Archiving Electronic Literature”
with Will Hansen (Curator, Duke University), Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (English, U. Maryland), and electronic literature pioneers Deena Larsen, Stephanie Strickland, and Marjorie Luesebrink
ELO Conference
June 3-6, 2010
“Bookishness & Digital Literature”
Beinecke Lectures in the History of the Book Series
Yale University
April 29, 2010
Moderator, Literary Arts Roundtable
DAC (Digital Arts and Culture) Conference
UC Irvine
December 14, 2009
“The Aesthetic of Bookishness in 21st-Century Literature“
Bookishness in the Digital Age Symposium
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
May 15, 2009
*A version of talk is now an article in The Michigan Quarterly Review
“New Literacies”
Panel on emergent literacies in the literary discipline. Closed conference held by and for the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Columbia University
March 27, 2009
“Non-Places: on Page and Screen“ Panel
Co-Chair, with Lisa Swanstrom
American Comparative Literature Association Conference
Harvard University
March 26-29, 2009
“Designing Digital Assignments”
Yale Collaborative Learning Center Teaching w/ Technology Tuesdays
Yale University
March 24, 2009
“Electronic Literature: An Introduction and Invitation”
National Museum of Contemporary Art
Athens, Greece
February 26, 2009
“21st-Century Modernism: Digital Stream of Consciousness”
Post45 Conference
Yale University
November 7-9, 2008
Interrupt Roundtable Participant
Interrupt Symposium
Brown University
October 17-18, 2008
“Mapping out Spaces for E-Lit Criticism”
Electronic Literature Organization Conference
Vancouver, Washington
May 29- June 1, 2008
“Digital Modernism”
Electronic Literature Organization Conference
Vancouver, Washington
May 29- June 1, 2008
“Remediating the Modern/Modernist Novel: Judd Morrissey’s Digital Modernist Remix”
Panel: “Novel History, Media History”
Modern Language Association
Chicago, Illinois
December 27-30, 2007
“Exploring Electronic Literature”
Panel: “Electronic Literature: Reading, Writing, Navigating”
Modern Language Association
Chicago, Illinois
December 27-30, 2007
“Bob Brown’s Readies and Digital Readings”
Modernist Studies Association
Long Beach, California
November 1-4, 2007
“Multimedia Modernism” Seminar Leader
Modernist Studies Association
Long Beach, California
November 1-4, 2007
“The Revolution and Evolution of Flash-ing Literature: Bob Brown’s Readies and Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries”
Society of Literature and Science
New York City
November 9-12, 2006
“New Criticism and New Media: Close Reading Digital Literature and Digital Modernism”
Modernist Studies Association
Tulsa, Oklahoma
October 19-22, 2006
“Incorporating Electronic Literature into Introductory English Classes ”
UCLA Graduate Pedagogy Seminar: Special Topic on Teaching with Technology
March 23, 2006
“The Revolution of the Word: Textual Montage Ezra Pound’s Cantos, Bob Brown’s ‘Readies,’ and Young-Hae Chang’s Dakota”
UCLA Americanist Research Colloquium
October 27, 2005
“Teaching Electronic Literature”
UCLA Graduate Pedagogy Seminar
November 2004
”An Introduction to Electronic Literature”
Friends of English Salon, UCLA
December 4, 2003
“Nano Narrative: A Parable from Electronic Literature”
Society of Literature and Science
Austin, Texas
October 23-26, 2003