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Richard Snyder, PhD, is the Charles Blackburn Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington State University Vancouver and Associate Director of the Electronic Literature Lab (ELL). He also functions as Metadata Specialist for The NEXT, a combination museum, library, and preservation space for born-digital literary works.
Research
I am interested in the relationship between word and image in poetry and narrative. My dissertation, "Word and Image in Early Modern Literature: A Digital Approach to Reading in Context," identified the need for better digital resources that could bring visual culture into the reading experience of literary texts. I continue this work as developer of the Early Modern Visual Reader (EMVR) project. In my work developing metadata for digital works of literature and art at ELL, I have theorized and implemented better methods of describing these objects for people with disabilities.
Creative Work & Curation
I write, code, paint, and carve. My poetry and visual art have been published in places such as The New River Journal and the Virtual Museum of Posthumanist Art. See projects for more.
In my role as Associate Director of ELL, I have curated and co-curated many different collections and exhibitions of electronic literature and art, such as The Reiner Strasser Collection and The Ephemera of Electronic Art: The Technology of Memory.
Teaching
As an award-winning instructor, I have taught courses such as Digital Storytelling, Early Shakespeare, and Multimedia Authoring. At WSUV, I developed the course Introduction to Data Visualization (DTC 209). In 2020 and 2021, I was invited to teach Twine at the Digital Storytelling course at Digital Humanities Summer Institute, and in 2022 I will be the lead facilitator for that course.