Joseph Paul Tabbi
Joseph Tabbi is a US literary scholar and theorist, notable for his contributions to the fields of American literature and electronic literature. Tabbi received a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1989 for a dissertation titled "The Psychology of Machines: Technology and Personal Identity in the Work of Norman Mailer and Thomas Pynchon."
Tabbi is also the founder of Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL), an "open access, non-commercial resource offering centralized access to literary databases, archives, and institutional programs" in the humanities.
Among his works are Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk and Cognitive Fictions. He was the first scholar granted access to the archives of the reclusive novelist William Gladdis and is the author of Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis and the editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature, Post-Digital: Critical Debates from electronic book review, and an additional forthcoming volume from Bloomsbury Publishing.
