Joseph Tabbi

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Joseph Tabbi is the author of Cognitive Fictions (Minnesota 2002) and Postmodern Sublime (Cornell 1995), books that examine the effects of new technologies on contemporary American fiction. He is the founding editor of electronic book review (ebr), and has edited and introduced William Gaddis’s last fiction and collected non-fiction (Viking/Penguin). His essay on Mark Amerika appeared at the Walker Art Center’s phon:e:me site, a 2000 Webby Award nominee. Also online (the Iowa Review Web) is an essay-narrative, titled “Overwriting,” an interview, and a review of his recent work. Tabbi has served as president of the Electronic Literature Organization. He is currently a Principal Investigator at the Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen.

Critical writing by this author:

Titlesort descending Publication Type Publisher Year
Introduction to Annotated Bibliographies Series Electronic Book Review (ebr) 2009
Introduction [The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature] Article or chapter in a book Bloomsbury Academic 2018
Locating the Literary in New Media Article in a print journal, Article in an online journal, Conference paper or presentation Contemporary Literature, Electronic Book Review (ebr) 2008
Manifesto Other
New Media: Its Utility and Liability for Literature and for Life Conference paper or presentation 2011
On Reading 300 Works of Electronic Literature: Preliminary Reflections Article or chapter in a book, Weblog On the Human, Transcript 2009
On Reading 300 Works of Electronic Literature: Preliminary Reflections Article in an online journal
Poets Take On Guess Inc.: Poets Win Article in a print journal Electronic Book Review (ebr) 1997
Poets Take On Guess Inc.: Poets Win Article in an online journal Electronic Book Review (ebr) 1997
Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk Book (monograph) - print Cornell University Press 1996
Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology Book (collection) Cornell University Press 1997
Redefining Electronic Literature Conference panel or roundtable 2018
Relocating the Literary: In Networks, Knowledge Bases, Global Systems, Material and Mental Environments Keynote address 2013
Relocating the Literary: In Networks, Knowledge Bases, Global Systems, Material and Mental Environments Conference paper or presentation 2013
Relocating the Literary: In Networks, Knowledge Bases, Global Systems, Material, and Mental Environments Article or chapter in a book 2018
Responses to "On Reading 300 Works of Electronic Literature: Preliminary Reflections" Weblog On the Human 2009
Riga Under Western Eyes 2006
Riga Under Western Eyes Open Humanities Press 2006
Something there badly not wrong: the life and death of literary form in databases Article in an online journal Electronic Book Review (ebr) 2020
START HERE> An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Electronic Literature Article in a print journal, Article in an online journal, Exhibition Catalog Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 2002

Curator of:

Titlesort descending City Country Date
Posthuman Bergen Norway March 4, 2021
START HERE> Chicago United States April 18, 2002 to April 20, 2002
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Joseph Tabbi
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