Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms, and Practices - Paperback

by Dene Grigar (Editor), Astrid Ensslin (Editor), James O'Sullivan (Editor)

Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms & Practices is an open access volume of essays that provides a detailed account of born-digital literature by artists and scholars who have contributed to its birth and evolution. Rather than offering a prescriptive definition of electronic literature, this book takes an ontological approach through descriptive exploration, treating electronic literature from the perspective of the digital humanities (DH)--that is, as an area of scholarship and practice that exists at the juncture between the literary and the algorithmic.

Author Biography

Dene Grigar is an Associate Professor and Director of The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver, USA. With Stuart Moulthrop, she is the recipient of a 2013 NEH Start Up grant for a digital preservation project for early electronic literature that culminated into an open source, multimedia book for scholars entitled Pathfinders, and a book of criticism entitled Traversals. She was President of the Electronic Literature Organization (2013-2019) and Associate Editor of Leonardo Reviews.

James O'Sullivan lectures in digital arts and humanities at University College Cork, Ireland. His research has been published in a variety of venues, including Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. He is the author of Towards a Digital Poetics (2019), as well as the editor of several volumes including Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities (with Grigar, 2021).