Alan Y. Liu - English Department - University of California, Santa ...

Executive Committee of the Division on the English Romantic Period, Modern Language
Association (1989-1993). Organized MLA convention sessions in 1992 on
"Romanticism and Postmodernism, I & II" and "Green Romanticism: The
Environment of Imagination."
Wordsworth-Coleridge Association: Secretary, 1986; President, 1987. Organized MLA
convention sessions in 1987 on "The Value of Romanticism, I: Wordsworth,
Coleridge, and Romantic Money" and "The Value of Romanticism, II: Romanticism
and Evaluation."
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
� Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008) (392 pp.)
� The Laws of Cool: Knowledg e Work and the Culture of Inform ation (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2004) (573 pp.) (Honorable Mention for James Russell
Lowell Prize for Outstanding Book, Modern Language Association, 2005)
� Wordsworth: The Sense of History (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989) (726
pp.)
� Editor, William Wordsworth, Poetry for Young People Series (New York: Sterling
Publishing, 2003) (48 pp.) (Edition of Wordsworth's poetry for children ages 8-12,
with introduction and notes by Alan Liu, and illustrations by James Muir)
ARTICLES/CHAPTERS:
� "Where is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities," Debates in the Digital
Humanities, ed. Matthew Gold (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
forthcoming)
� "The State of the Digital Humanities: A Report and a Critique," Arts and Humanities
in Higher Education 11.1 (2012) (forthcoming)
� "'So What?': New Tools and New Humanities Paradigms," Collaborative Approaches to
the Digital in English Studies, ed. Laura McGrath (Logan, UT: Computers and
Composition Digital Press / Utah State University Press, forthcoming)
� "Friending the Past: The Sense of History and Social Computing," New Literary
History, 42.1 (2011): 1-30
� "We Will Really Know," Switching Codes, ed. Thomas Bartscherer and Roderick Coover
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011)
� "The End of the End of the Book: Dead Books, Lively Margins, and Social
Computing," Michigan Quaterly Review, 48 (2009): 499-520, special issue on
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