This special issue of DHQ invites essays that consider the study of literature and the category of the literary to be an essential part of the digital humanities. We welcome essays that consider how digital technologies affect our understanding of the literary— its aesthetics, its history, its production and dissemination processes, and also the traditional [...]

The New River is seeking works of electronic literature or new media by current students or recent graduates from electronic literature or new media programs. The journal intends to publish its next issue in spring 2011. If you know of a current student or recent graduate whose work you would recommend, could you either send [...]

Reading Writing Interfaces: Electronic Literature and the “Interface-free” 2012 Modern Language Association Conference in Seattle (Jan. 5-8) Send 300 word abstracts and a brief bio. by 15 March 2011 to Lori Emerson (lori dot emerson at colorado dot edu) Given that, as Lisa Gitelman puts it, “media represent and delimit representing,” this special session seeks [...]

This is the hand-out I created for a talk I gave at UCLA and the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. I’d like to develop these ideas into a fuller paper that creates a basic set of critical principles by which to discuss the widely divergent forms of digital literature out there. I’m revising the entire [...]

“They heard Dixon’s foot. A stern thought compressed her brows, and set her teeth. It was Dixon’s measured tread. They heard her walk.” Continuing the abridged version of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South – abridged on the principle of leaving out all the important bits. The sinister Dixon may or may not be dead. The [...]