Thomas Swiss - New Media, Poetry, Popular Music
Office:
POROI, Jefferson Bldg.
Phone: 319-335-xxxx
Thomas-Swiss@uiowa.edu
My teaching and writing have most recently focused
on "New Media" literature and its relationship to image
and sound. I'm interested in the interplay of digital texts, the
institutions that support and promote them, and the emerging audiences
that respond to them. I'm also interested in and write about poetry
and the rhetoric of popular music criticism.
I'm always delighted to work with students on
writing and research projects in areas where I might have some
experience or expertise. Over the next few years, I'll be teaching
courses on Digital Rhetoric, Multimedia Writing, The Rhetoric
of Popular Music, The New York School of Writers, Artists and
Musicians, and The Language of Conceptual Art.
I share an appointment with the Department
of English and I'm the editor of TIR
Web.
My most recent books include Unspun
(NYU Press), an edited volume that explores concepts that help
shape our understanding of the World Wide Web and its wide-ranging
influence on contemporary culture; a collection of poems, Rough
Cut (U. Illinois); and a co-edited collection of essays on
the topic of popular music, Mapping the Beat (Blackwell).
Current projects include co-editing a book,
with Professor Dee Morris, on the topic of New
Media Poetry.
