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.
The domain of DH is typically segmented into the two seemingly disparate strands of criticism and building, with scholars either studying the synthesis between cultural expression and screens or the use of technology to make artifacts in themselves. This book regards electronic literature as fundamentally DH in that it synthesizes these two constituents.
Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities provides a context for the development of the field, informed by the forms and practices that have emerged throughout the DH moment, and finally, offers resources for others interested in learning more about electronic literature.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Ensslin, Astrid: - Astrid Ensslin is Professor of Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces at University of Regensburg, Germany.
Grigar, Dene: - Dene Grigar is Professor and Director of The Creative Media & Digital Culture program at Washington State University Vancouver, USA who holds the Lewis E. and Stella G. Buchanan Distinguished Professorship. 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 now serves as the Managing Director and Curator of ELO's The NEXT. As Director of the Electronic Literature Lab, she has been working to preserve born-digital literature and net art.
Mencía, María: - María Mencía is an artist/practice-based researcher and Senior Lecturer in the School of Performance and Screen Studies at Kingston University, London, UK. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the ELO-Electronic Literature Organization. Her practice-based research is trans-disciplinary, it explores the poetic space of the in-between in multimodal digital textualities, interactive narratives, poetics of engagement, digital literacies and data visualisation poetics. Most recently, she is the editor of #WomenTechLit, a collection of 28 essays by women working in Electronic Literature.
O'Sullivan, James: - James O'Sullivan is Lecturer in Digital Arts and Humanities at University College Cork, Ireland.
Saum-Pascual, Alex: - Alex Saum-Pascual is Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Torres, Rui: - Rui Torres is Associate Professor of Communication Sciences at University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, teaching Semiotics, Digital Media, and Electronic Literature. He is the director of the academic journal Cibertextualidades, and member of several editorial boards and scientific committees of other Journals in the field of electronic literature. He is, most recently, the editor of Poesia Experimental Portuguesa: Contextos, Ensaios, Entrevistas, Metodologias and PO.EX: Essays from Portugal on Cyberliterature and Intermedia (co-edited with Sandy Baldwin).
