Laura Borràs Castanyer

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Barcelona
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Spain
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Laura Borràs Castanyer, Ph.D. in Romance Philology (1997) from the UB, has attained the qualification of European Doctor (1997) and has been awarded the Special Ph.D. Prize (1998) in Social Sciences at the same university. Is an associate professor on Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Barcelona. She devoted the last 12 years to develop the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) on the literary field –mainly on Comparative Literature and Digital Literature as well. Member of the Literary Advisory Board of the ELO, from 2000, she directs and is the main investigator of the International Research Group HERMENEIA, made up of professors and investigators from various European and American universities, whose mission is to study connections between Literary Studies and Digital Technologies. Academic Director of the M.A. Programme on Literature in the Digital Age at the University of Barcelona. She has organized the e-poetry festival 2009 in Barcelona. With Rita Raley, Brian Kim Stefans and Talan Memmott, she has been editor of the Electronic Literature Collection, vol. II (2008-2010).

Critical writing by this author:

Title Publication Type Publisher Year
Electronic Literature as an Information System Article in a print journal Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures 2009
La literatura electrónica Article in a print journal Imán 2009
Libros informáticos, libros posinformáticos: formas de lo literario en la era digital. Muestra de tecnologías literarias catalanas contemporáneas Article in a print journal Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2009
Literatura i tecnologia. Ha perdut els papers, la literatura? Article or chapter in a book Universitat de les Illes Balears 2009
A New Literary Information System: GPS, The Global Poetic System: Bringing Electronic Literature To The Greater Public Conference panel or roundtable 2008
Género y ciberespacio. Ciberfeminismo y cibercultura Article or chapter in a book Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2008
Género y ciberespacio. Ciberfeminismo y cibercultura Article or chapter in a book Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2008
Lit[art]ure: la literatura en tiempos de Internet Article in a print journal Quimera 2008
The Risk of Reading in Digital Literary Creation Conference paper or presentation 2008
¿Pero hay realmente un cambio de paradigma? Un análisis apresurado mientras la literatura pierde los papeles Article or chapter in a book Anthropos 2008
Apprendre la littérature en ligne: transformer les techniques communicatives du discours savant Article in an online journal Université de Rennes 2007
Broadening the e-learning technologies on literature: the effect of it over medieval Romance Literature Article or chapter in a book IADIS International Conference Applied Computing 2007 2007
Catalan Ergodic Literature Other University of Jyväskylä 2007
Comment lire la littérature numérique? L’expérience d’enseigner la Poésie Numérique dans les Études de Philologie Catalane Article in an online journal Université Paris VIII 2007
E-Learning and Literary Studies - Towards a New Culture of Teaching? Article or chapter in a book 2007
E-teaching and Literary Studies. Towards a New Culture of Teaching Article or chapter in a book Transcript 2007
International Electronic LIterature Conference panel or roundtable 2007
La revolución biotecnológica-comunicacional. Nuevas formas literarias, nuevas miradas y viejos memes Article or chapter in a book 2007
Lector in machina Article or chapter in a book University Cambridge Press 2007
Poiesis and technologie. E-learning material development in Literature Article or chapter in a book WEBIST 2007

Curator of:

Titlesort descending City Country Date
Erasmus Intensive Program "European Digital Literatures" Madrid Spain June 25, 2012 to July 13, 2012
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Laura Borràs Castanyer
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