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1. University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Department of English

   The Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) embraces multiple approaches to, writing, reading, and teaching English, and offers innovative courses of study for students at both undergraduate and graduate levels. The department offers BA and MA degrees in English Education, Creative Writing, and English Studies; it offers PhD degrees in Creative Writing and English Studies. Graduates in English, at all levels, distinguish themselves with rewarding jobs in schools, businesses, community organizations, and government, and with prestigious awards for their writing and teaching.

   Students in all areas of study in English take advantage of the department’s internationally renowned faculty, engaged in path-breaking research.   Faculty strengths range from early modern British literature and American literature to creative writing and rhetorical studies.  At both undergraduate and graduate levels, moreover, students are encouraged to pursue exciting interdisciplinary paths of inquiry, connecting literature and culture, politics and rhetoric, creative writing and critical writing, composition and urban studies. 

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 18.04.2012 - 10:53

2. Digital Magic: Preservation for a New Era

   Kirschenbaum makes an "argument for the importance of digital preservation while describing how how he accessed SWALLOWS via an Apple // emulator and then provided Zelevanksy with the original .dsk file from which he then created a new version of SWALLOWS (with audio and video clips mixed in) called G R E A T . B L A N K N E S S" (Source: adapted from post at loriemerson.net).

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 25.04.2012 - 08:55

3. An Interview with Jason Nelson

   This interview appeared alongside three works by Jason Nelson in Cordite's Electronica issue, giving insight into Nelson's creative practices and digital poetry.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 04.05.2012 - 00:11

4. Interview with Pauline Masurel

   Conversation between Jim Andrews and Pauline Masurel about the conceptual ideas and practices behind the creation of Blue Hyacinth. The original Blue Hyacinth notebook was a six-month online experiment to write a text for each day, all somehow reflecting the theme of blue hyacinth.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 04.05.2012 - 13:57

5. Distributed Matters: Production of Presence and the Augmented Textuality of VR

   The paper proposes a descriptive (i.e., non-hermeneutical/presence-driven) reading of the virtual reality work Screen by Noah Wardrip-Fruin et al. (2002) designed for Brown University’s CAVE. Because of the non-triviality of its demands, one might argue that Screen is as much about its theme (memory/forgetting) as it is a self-referential study on VR as a literary medium. In this context, seemingly incompatible notions such as those of "flickering signifiers" (Hayles, 1999) and “presence effects” (Gumbrecht, 2004) can operate as coextensive tropes of analysis. Are we to speak of a new phenomenology of language wherein processing protocols precede literary semiosis? Does proprioceptive awareness of the linguistic mark not also trigger a concurrent semiotic reaction obligatorily leading to an act of interpretation?

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.05.2012 - 12:17

6. Chuva de letras: de presenças, ausências de literatura digital

   Chuva de letras: de presenças, ausências de literatura digital

   Patricia Tomaszek - 08.05.2012 - 15:13

7. Proposal for a Universal Electronic Publishing System and Archive

   Excerpt from chapter 2 of Literary Machines. Susalito, CA: Mindful Press, 1981.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.05.2012 - 15:34

8. Beyond Myth and Metaphor: Narrative in Digital Media

   The concept of narrative has been widely invoked by theorists of digital textuality, but the promotion of what is described as the storytelling power of the computer has often relied on shallow metaphors, loose conceptions of narrative, and literary models that ignore the distinctive properties of the digital medium. Two myths have dominated this theorization. The myth of the Aleph (as I call it) presents the digital text as a finite text that contains an infinite number of stories. The myth of the Holodeck envisions digital narrative as a virtual environment in which the user becomes a character in a plot similar to those of Victorian novels or Shakespearean tragedies. Both of these myths rely on questionable assumptions: that any permutation of a collection of lexias results in a coherent story; that it is aesthetically desirable to be the hero of a story; and that digital narrativity should cover the same range of emotional experiences as literary narrative. Here I argue that digital narrative should emancipate itself from literary models. But I also view narrative as a universal structure that transcends media.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 15.05.2012 - 14:07

9. What Hypertext Is

   Over the past couple decades, as the term "hypertext" has gained a certain popular currency, a question has been raised repeatedly: "What is hypertext?" Our most respected scholars offer a range of different, at times incompatible, answers. This paper argues that our best response to this situation is to adopt the approach taken with other terms that are central to intellectual communities (such as "natural selection," "communism," and "psychoanalysis"), a historical approach. In the case of "hypertext" the term began with Theodor Holm ("Ted") Nelson, and in this paper two of his early publications of "hypertext" are used to determine its initial meaning: the 1965 "A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate" and the 1970 "No More Teachers' Dirty Looks." It is concluded that hypertext began as a term for forms of hypermedia (human-authored media that "branch or perform on request") that operate textually. This runs counter to definitions of hypertext in the literary community that focus solely on the link. It also runs counter to definitions in the research community that privilege tools for knowledge work over media.

   Scott Rettberg - 25.05.2012 - 14:15

10. The Paratexts of Inanimate Alice: Thresholds, Genre Expectations and Status

    In her book Writing Machines, N. Katherine Hayles described the concept of thetechnotext. Hayles used this concept to provide an analysis of a range of texts, including online work, based on their materiality. The analysis described in this article complements this method by developing an approach that explores the conditions of production of contemporary digital literature. It achieves this aim by providing a close reading of the online paratextual elements associated with the first four episodes ofInanimate Alice by Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph. In doing so, it modifies the print-based analytical framework provide by Gérard Genette and others to develop a detailed account of the off-site, on-site and in-file paratexts of this online work. It sets out a range of thresholds that mould the reception of this text. It also notes how they position it within wider discourses about genre, media, literature and literacy. This article concludes by exploring the limits of this paratextual reading. It discusses whether it provides an adequate account of the material conditions of these texts.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.06.2012 - 14:25

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