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Filip J. Falk
Filip J. Falk
Filip Falk - 24.08.2017 - 14:44
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Pål Alvsaker
Pål Alvsaker
Pål Alvsaker - 24.08.2017 - 14:44
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Ole Samdal
Ole Samdal is a Norwegian student of digital culture at the University of Bergen, in Norway. He is also the leader of the student board for digital culture (2016 - present).
Ole Samdal - 24.08.2017 - 14:47
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David Wiesner
David Wiesner is one of the best-loved and most highly acclaimed picture book creators in the world. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have won numerous awards in the United States and abroad. Three of the picture books he both wrote and illustrated became instant classics when they won the prestigious Caldecott Medal: Tuesday in 1992, The Three Pigs in 2002, and Flotsam in 2007, making him only the second person in the award's long history to have won three times. He has also received three Caldecott Honors, for Free Fall, Sector 7, and Mr. Wuffles!.
Wiesner grew up in suburban New Jersey, known to his classmates as "the kid who could draw." He went on to become a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he was able to commit himself to the full-time study of art and to explore further his passion for visual storytelling. He soon discovered that picture books were the perfect vehicle for his work.
Ole Samdal - 31.08.2017 - 13:27
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David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American writer and university instructor in the disciplines of English and creative writing. His novel Infinite Jest (1996) was listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. His last novel, The Pale King (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2012.
(Source: Wikipedia entry on David Foster Wallace)
Glenn Solvang - 24.10.2017 - 15:39
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Michel Foucault
Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984), generally known as Michel Foucault (French: [miʃɛl fuko]), was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, and literary critic.
Piotr Marecki - 27.04.2018 - 14:37
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April Salchert
April Salchert is a PhD student at the University of Otago in the Department of English and Linguistics. She has received an M.A. in English Literature from Uppsala University and B.A. in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her current project, Encounters with the Other in Digital Fiction, examines how authors of digital fiction express Otherness, and how digital fiction may provoke or prevent empathy for the marginalized Other. This project also critically examines the ethical limits and dangers of designating digital media as a tool to generate empathy for marginalized Others. Interests include digital fiction, game studies, postcolonial studies, gender studies, and the digital humanities. Free time is spent learning Javascript, going to ballet class, or watching Netflix (currently watching the original Star Trek series).
Source: ELO 2018 Biography
Amirah Mahomed - 05.09.2018 - 15:21
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Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, and a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement. His contribution to poetry began with his development of Imagism, a movement derived from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry, stressing clarity, precision and economy of language. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) and the unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos (1917–1969).
Scott Rettberg - 26.09.2018 - 15:38
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James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, his published letters and occasional journalism.
Joyce was born in 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin, into a middle-class family. A brilliant student, he briefly attended the Christian Brothers-run O'Connell School before excelling at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father's alcoholism and unpredictable finances. He went on to attend University College Dublin.
Scott Rettberg - 26.09.2018 - 15:48
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Thomas Stearns Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets". Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25, settling, working, and marrying there. He became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39, renouncing his American passport.
Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), which was seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including The Waste Land (1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), "Ash Wednesday" (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). He was also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry".
Scott Rettberg - 26.09.2018 - 16:19
