Category Archives: MLA
MLA 17 // Boundary Play
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Feminism in Augmented Reality, Videogames and Electronic Literature Thursday, 5 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott #s151 #MLA17 Speakers: Profs. Jessica Pressman, Kathi Inman Berens, Anastasia Salter Respondent: Prof. Caitlin Fisher Our panel presents research about the role of feminism in … Continue reading
Higher education is experiencing its Napster moment, its Amazon moment, and administrators are implementing online learning modules to compete. Disintermediation: what iTunes did to record stores and Amazon did to bookstores, textbook companies are beginning to do to residential university … Continue reading
What I’m Doing As a Fulbright Scholar
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I’m the 2014-2015 U.S. Fulbright Scholar of Digital Culture at the University in Bergen. Here’s what I’ve been up to. Essays published or submitted fall 2014 –“Judy Malloy’s seat at the (database) table: a feminist reception history of early hypertext.” … Continue reading
Vote Kathi Inman Berens for MLA Executive Council
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In 2011, I rejoined the MLA after a twelve-year hiatus. I was working full time as an Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing at the University of Southern California (which means: NTT, 3/3, 3-yr renewable contract, stable employment, no sabbatical or … Continue reading
Support new Creative Writing Forum at MLA by June 15!
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Many e-lit artists belong to the Modern Language Association, the largest advocacy group for scholars and teachers of literature and languages in higher education. We in electronic literature have a rare opportunity to form with other creative writers an official … Continue reading
Authenticity in Distributed Networks: a #MLA15 Proposal
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“Authenticity in Distributed Networks” is a deep dive into how humans and machines collaborate to make or adjudicate authenticity. Machines “authenticate” information, but without consciousness. Humans derive authenticity from cognitive and embodied processes; consciousness is a gatekeeper, confirming or disconfirming … Continue reading
CFP: “Authenticity in Distributed Networks” |
At MLA 2015, to be held Jan. 8-11 in Vancouver, Canada, I wish to convene a Special Session panel that interrogates how distributed networks of human and non-human agents disclose new dimensions of “authenticity.” Referring to the material substrate that … Continue reading
