Woman E-Lit Event & Initiatives
Welcome to Woman E-Lit, a very special symposium that took place on March 30, 2021 during Women’s History Month celebrating women who have contributed to the field of electronic literature. It also celebrated the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Electronic Literature Lab (ELL). The two events intersect in that it was important to […]
Celebrating 10 Years of the Electronic Literature Lab, Part 1
As I mention in the History section of this website, the idea for the Electronic Literature Lab was born out of the successful “Early Authors of Electronic Literature: The Eastgate School, Voyager Artists, and Independent Productions—Special Collection on loan from N. Katherine Hayles,” exhibition that I curated at ELO’s Visionary Landscapes conference held at WSUV […]
Women’s History Month 2021
Join us in celebrating Women’s History Month 2021. This year we are highlighting the output by women working in the area of born-digital literature from all over the world. Each day we will post, on Twitter, one work by one woman artist or scholar. All works will be accessible on the web and all posts […]
Ruffle Preservation Report #3
This third report continues with our updates about the lab’s efforts to save Flash e-lit. What Has Been Preserved Thus Far We finished preserving the Flash works published in the Electronic Literature Collections (ELC) 1, 2 & 3, Cauldron & Net, Word Circuits, and frAme. Yesterday Andrew Thompson and Arlo Ptolemy (the Ruff Rangers, as […]
The Challenges of Born-Digital Fiction: Editions, Translations, and Emulations
Mariusz Pisarski and I signed a contract with Cambridge University Press this week for a book entitled, The Challenges of Born-Digital Fiction: Editions, Translations, and Emulations, for its Digital Literary Studies Element Series, edited by Gabriel Hankins, Adam Hammond, and Katherine Bode. It will be delivered in June 2022. The book will address the growing concern […]
Ruffle Preservation Report #2
This is second report about the work the lab is doing to preserve born-digital literature created with Adobe Flash. Today the team (CMDC juniors Andrew Thompson and Arlo Ptolemy) finished implementing Ruffle on the works published in the Electronic Literature Collections, Volumes 1, 2 and 3. This week we will begin adding scholarly commentary to their […]
Saving Flash Works: Report #1
This is the first of several reports from the lab about its efforts to preserve born-digital literary works produced with Adobe Flash software. Where We Are and How We Got Here If you have been following us over the last two years, you may remember that we submitted a proposal, entitled “afterflash,” to the National […]
Michael Joyce’s Traversal of Twilight, a Symphony
Introduction to Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities & Forthcoming Book Launch
The “Introduction” to James O’Sullivan’s and my collection of essays, Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities, has been reprinted by the Electronic Book Review. The essay lays out the argument that: . . . electronic literature is the logical object of study for digital humanities scholars who have, by the second decade of the twenty-first century, cut […]
Welcome 2021 ELO Fellow Sean Braune
ELL is very pleased to welcome its 2021 ELO Fellow, Sean Braune. Sean, who will be working directly under Professor Will Luers on the publication, The Digital Review, is a scholar, writer, and filmmaker. He has authored the full-length poetry collection, Dendrite Balconies (University of Calgary Press, 2019) and the philosophy book Language Parasites: Of Phorontology (Punctum Books, 2017). […]