KATHI INMAN BERENS: Professor, Scholar, Consultant
Kathi works on new forms of books, publishing and storytelling. Kathi consults in book publishing, digital publishing, online education, virtual games and experiences, and transmedia marketing.
UPCOMING TALKS
“Metadata Challenges to Book Discoverability in Children’s Books: The Diverse BookFinder Intervention,” Digital Humanities Conference, June 27, 2018, México City, México.
“Is Digital Humanities Adjuncting Infrastructurally Significant?,” Digital Humanities Conference, June 27, 2018, México City.
“Playable Books: Critical Codes Studies and Ludic Reading” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Conference, July 12, 2018, Sydney, Australia.
“Digital-Born Bestsellers: Instagram Poets, Book Materiality, and the Literary Highbrow” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Conference, July 12, 2018, Sydney, Australia.
“Populist E-literature: Instagram Poets, Book Materiality, Circulation” Electronic Literature Conference, August 14, 2018, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
RECENT TALKS
“Rewards: Books, Boundedness and Reading in Participatory Culture.” Digital Humanities Conference 2017. McGill University. Montréal, Québec, Canada. August 8-13, 2017.
“Complete: What Book Publishers Can Learn from Electronic Literature.” Electronic Literature Organization 2017. University of Fernando Pessoa. Porto, Portugal. July 18-22, 2017.
“Delete: Apple iOS as Book Distribution System.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. University of Victoria, B.C., Canada. June 8-12, 2017.
“80 Days: Breaking the Boundaries between Video Games and Literature,” the Modern Language Association’s annual convention, Jan. 5, 2017, Philadelphia, PA.
“Adjuncts and Digital Humanities 101,” the Modern Language Association’s annual convention, Jan. 6, 2017, Philadelphia, PA.
“Novel Stories: Playable Books on iPad,” on a panel I organized for the 2016 Digital Humanities Conference July 11-16 at Jagellionian University in Kracków, Poland.
“Toward a Feminist Theory of E-Lit Interfaces: The Upside-Down Chandelier and Living Will” at the Electronic Literature Organization’s International Conference, June 12, 2016, at the University of Victoria, B.C.
“A Feminist Theory of E-Literature’s Interfaces: Beginnings of an Inquiry.” U.C. Irvine Data Science and Digital Humanities Symposium. 5 February 2016.
“Touch and Decay: Toward a Device-Specific Reception of Electronic Literature.” MLA 2016 on the “Reader Mediations in Electronic Literature” panel. Austin, TX January 6-10, 2016.
“Interface” at the electronic roundtable “Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities.” MLA 2016. Austin, TX January 6-10, 2016.
“Stories Beneath Your Feet and Fingertips” at Bergen Public Library.
“Literary/Ludic reading of E-Literature’s Feminist Interfaces” at the International Conference Series of Games and Literary Theory. New Orleans, LA. November 20-22, 2015.
WORKSHOPS DESIGNED AND LED
“Curating Electronic Literature,” a workshop where curators learned how to devise media plans for shows they will produce at the International Festiwal Literacki Ha!wangarda in Kraków, Poland. October 5, 2014.
“Electric Ha!Lucinations: Trends in Digital Poetry” at the International Festiwal Literacki Ha!wangarda in Kraków, Poland. October 4, 2014.
Teaching curators in Kraków, Poland how to build a media plan.
CONSULTING WORK
“Transmedia Marketing and Job Growth” at IGNITE 5: Technology Association of Oregon at the Alberta Rose Theater in Portland, Oregon March 13, 2014.
EXHIBITED ART
Kathi’s collaborative feminist eco-poem “RestOration: Kalfarlien 18” débuted in Bergen, Norway at “The Ends of Electronic Literature” Media Arts show, and was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education. “RestOration,” made with Eva Pfitzenmeier (Germany), Kerstin Juhlin (Sweden) and Alicia Cohen (U.S.A.), was selected for exhibition at Rutgers University/Camden’s Stedman Gallery in “A Matter of Bits,” hosted by the Digital Center.
ANTHOLOGIZED ART
Kathi’s computationally generated poem Tournedo Gorge is featured in the peer-reviewed Electronic Literature Collection Volume Three. Read the source code (right click on the poem; select “view source”) to learn more about it as a remix of Nick Montfort’s “Taroko Gorge.”
