Ingrid Ankerson is a graphic designer for The NeuronFarm,LLC,
a company which creates web-based educational software. She is co-founder
and editor of the New Media Journal Poems
that Go.
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Benjamin Basan is
a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Iowa. He was raised in Texas and England, but prefers to call Tokyo home. His research interests revolve around intermedia, contemporary poetry and poetics, procedural architecture, nationalisms, and anarchism. In addition to editing The Iowa Review Web, he is Managing Editor of Factorial.org - an organisation promoting Japanese poetry in English.
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Jay David Bolter is Director of the New Media Center
and Wesley Chair of New Media in the School of Literature, Communication,
and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work with
computers led in 1984 to the publication of Turing's
Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age and, later, to Writing
Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing, published in 1991 . Together with Michael
Joyce, Bolter is the author of Storyspace, a program for creating
hypertexts for individual use and World Wide Web publication. His most
recent book is entitled Remediation, written in collaboration with
Richard Grusin.
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Robert Coover teaches at Brown University and is
well-known for his interest in new and experimental writing.
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Sean Cubitt is Professor and Chair of Screen and
Media Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. The author
and editor of a number of books, including Digital
Aesthetics and
Simulation and Social Theory, he is currently working on a new book,
FX: Time and the Cinema of Special Effects for MIT Press. His critical
and creative work can be found at his site: http://www.waikato.ac.nz/film/staffpages/sean/seanchome.html
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Johanna Drucker is currently
the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia
where she is Professor in the Department of English and Director of
Media Studies. Her scholarly books include: Theorizing Modernism,The
Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, The
Alphabetic Labyrinth, The Century
of Artists' Books and Figuring the Word. In addition
to her scholarly work, Drucker is internationally known as a book artist
and experimental, visual poet. Her work has been exhibited and collected
in special collections in libraries and museums including the Getty
Center for the Humanities, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in
New York.
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Brittany Duff is currently an M.A. student at the University of Minnesota. Her interests are in the areas of persuasive communication and identity exploration.
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Caitlin Fisher is an Assistant Professor of Fine
Arts and Cultural Studies at York University, Toronto. Fisher is
a founding editor of j_spot, the Journal
of Social and Political Thought and a member of the Public Access art collective. Her hypermedia
novella, These waves of Girls, was awarded the 2001 Electronic Literature
Award for Fiction.
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Lisa Gitelman is a professor
of Media Studies at Catholic University and the author of Scripts,
Grooves, and Writing Machines (Stanford 1999). She is currently working on a book about
the ways that media are experienced and studied as historical subjects.
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N. Katherine Hayles, Professor of English and Media
Arts at the University of California, writes and teaches on the relations
between science, literature, and technology. Her most recent book,
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics,
Literature and Informatics, won the Rene Wellek Prize for the best book in literary
theory for 1998-99. She is currently at work on two books on electronic
textuality, Literature for Posthumans and Coding
the Signifier: Rethinking Semiosis from the Telegraph to the Computer.
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Shelley Jackson is the author of the novel Half Life, the story collection The Melancholy of Anatomy, hypertexts including Patchwork Girl, My Body, and The Doll Games, and several childrens’ books, including The Old Woman and the Wave. Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including Conjunctions, the Paris Review, Bookforum, The LA Times, The Village Voice and Cabinet Magazine. She is also the author of SKIN, a story published in tattoos on the skin of 2095 volunteers, and co-founder (with artist Christine Hill) of The Interstitial Library. The recipient of a Howard Foundation grant and a Pushcart Prize, she has degrees from Stanford and Brown and has taught at Brown, MIT, the Pratt Institute, The New School University, and the European Graduate School. Her web site: http://www.ineradicablestain.com
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Steve Jones is Professor and Head of the Department
of Communication at the University of Illinois - Chicago. He is author/editor
of six books, including Doing Internet Research, CyberSociety and
Virtual Culture. Jones's interests in technology and culture include
research into popular music, youth culture and communication. Additional
information can be found at http://info.comm.uic.edu/jones
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Brooks Landon is Professor of English and a past chair of the English Department at the University of Iowa. His research and teaching center on the
ways in which people interact with science and technology, whether
that interaction emerges in explicit science fiction texts or in
implicit science fiction thinking. Put another way, his fascination
is with the moments when something almost is science fiction and when
science fiction almost isn't. Issues of digital culture and of electronic
textuality are central to both moments. He is the author of Science
Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars and of The
Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Rethinking Science Fiction Film in the Age
of Electronic Reproduction.
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Christopher Merrill's recent
books include Only
the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars (nonfiction), Brilliant
Water (poetry), and the translation of Ales Debeljak's The
City and the Child. He directs the International
Writing Program at The University
of Iowa.
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Dee Morris is John C. Gerber Professor of English
at the University of Iowa. She is author of How
to Live. What to Do: H.D.'s Cultural Poetics (University of Illinois Press),
and editor of Sound States: Innovative Poetics
and Acoustical Technologies (University of North Carolina Press), and most recently editor with Thom Swiss of New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories (MIT Press). With Lynn Keller and Alan Golding,
she is co-editor of the Contemporary North American
Poetry Series at the University of Iowa Press.
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Stuart Moulthrop is Professor of Information Arts
and Technologies at the University of Baltimore. His work in new
media includes Victory Garden (1991), once called a "benchmark" for
electronic writing, and the widely discussed Web works "Hegirascope" (1995)
and "Reagan Library" (1999). His critical essays have appeared
in several anthologies, including the Norton
Anthology of Theory and Criticism. He has co-edited the on-line journal Postmodern
Culture and is a director of the Electronic
Literature Organization.
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Carrie Noland teaches about avant-garde poetry,
painting, and performance art produced in France and the United States.
Her publications include Poetry at Stake: Lyric
Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology (Princeton UP). She is a professor at the
University of California in Irvine, California.
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Marjorie Perloff is a critic of poetry, the visual
arts, and the media. In her books The Futurist
Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant-Guerre, and the Language of Rupture(1986) and Radical
Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media (1992), she considered verbal-visual
relationships in avant-garde texts like those of John Cage or Johanna
Drucker or Susan Howe. In her recent collection Poetry
On & Off the Page. (1998),
she studied such works as Christian Boltanski's photographs vis-a-vis
Roland Barthes' or Bill Viola's video works. Her most recent book, Differentials (University of Alabama Press), includes essays on verbal-visual material and digital poetics. Perloff is currently Scholar-in Residence at the University of Southern California and 2006 President of the MLA. She is also Sadie Dernham
Patek Professor Emerita at Stanford University.
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Rita Raley is Assistant Professor of English at
the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she teaches courses
in the digital humanities and global literary studies. She is completing
work on one book, Global English and the Academy, and also currently
at work on a book about digital textuality. Her most recent articles
address hypertext and performance and the electronic empire.
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David Silver is an assistant professor of Communication
at the University of Washington. His research interests focus generally
around the intersections between computers, the Internet, and contemporary
American cultures. He directs the Resource
Center for Cyberculture Studies. His web site: http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver
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Brian Kim Stefans is the creator and editor of arras.net,
devoted to new media poetry and poetics. He is the author of three
books of poetry: Free Space Comix (Roof), Gulf (Object/Harry Tankoos)
and Angry Penguins (Harry Tankoos). He is also the author of a book
of essays and poems: Fashionable Noise: On Digital
Poetics, published
by Atelos. His own digital art includes "The Dreamlife of Letters" and the
interactivfe interview/poem "The Truth Interview." He is
an active presence on the NYC poetry scene.
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Thomas Swiss's collaborative new media poems appear online, as well as in museum exhibits and art shows. He is professor of English and Rhetoric of Inquiry at the University of Iowa. The author of two collections of poems, Rough Cut and Measure, his latest books include Unspun and New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories, a co-edited volume of poetry in a digital age. Swiss is President of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization.
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