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� Editor, 1994-present: The Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research Initiated in 1994 as a 70+ Web-page directory of online humanities research resources organized by field, historical period, author, etc. Reimplemented as database-driven site in 2001 with the assistance of Robert Adlington and Jeremy Douglass. (File of references and responses to the page available on request.) � Principal Investigator, 1998-2007: Transcriptions: Literature and the Culture of Information . NEH-funded Teaching with Technology project in the University of California, Santa Barbara, English Department started in 1998. The project, which involves multiple faculty and graduate students, creates curricular and research materials related to: 1. the social, political, economic, and cultural contexts that now make "information" so powerful, and 2. the equivalent contexts that have always made literature itself an "information technology," including the cultures of orality, manuscript, print, etc. Transcriptions also includes an undergraduate "specialization" or curricular track for English majors. [Note: Transcriptions was renamed the Literature.Culture.Media Center in 2007] � General Editor, 2005-present: The Agrippa Files Web archive (co-created with graduate students) of unique materials related to the origins and composition of the limited-edition art book titled Agrippa: A Book of the Dead, with self-encrypting (erasing) poem by William Gibson and etchings by Dennis Ashbaugh (New York: Kevin Begos, 1992). Since its original publication, this rare work has become famous primarily for unauthorized copies of the poem by William Gibson on the Internet. With the cooperation of the publisher, Kevin Begos, The Agrippa Files makes available photos of the physical art book, the code and an emulation of the original self-encrypting Gibson poem, correspondence and contracts related to the work's publication, a narrative of the origin and development of the work, and resources for critical study. � Chair, 2002-2007: Electronic Literature Organization's PAD Initiative (Preservation Archiving Dissemination) Technology/Software Committee SELECTED OTHER RESEARCH DIGITAL PROJECTS/WEB SITES � University of California New Media Directory. Project leader (co-created with graduate students) � Public Humanities Initiative. Co-originator and co-director of the English Department's Public Humanities Initiative; creator of Public Humanities Initiative Web site; chief organizer of the "Entertainment Value" conference on May 3-4, 2002. The Initiative mounted a series of forums and talks, culminating in the large-scale conference "Entertainment Value" conference. The Web site includes research and other resources on the issue of "public humanities." Page 8 of 23
� Palinurus: The Academy and the Corporation –Teaching the Humanities in a Restructured World (hypertext bibliography, featured controversies, discussion topics, etc., designed to provide a framework for critical thought about the evolving relation between higher education and postindustrial business) � Romantic Chronology (co-edited with Laura Mandell, Dept. of English, Miami University, Ohio) (database-driven hypertext chronology of the Romantic period with a links-archive and other resources providing a historically-organized introduction to online materials in the area. There is an editorial board of scholars) � The Web and the Canon (Web page for the special session at MLA 1996 on "The Web and the Canon: Reconfiguring Romanticism for the Information Age," co-organized with Laura Mandell, Dept. of English, Miami U., Ohio) � Canon Revision: History, Theory, Practice (Web page for graduate seminar) � Lyotard Auto-Differend Page (a technical experiment and theoretical allegory based on the work of Jean-François Lyotard; uses "client-pull" Web technology; includes short essay on "philosophy of this page") � "Should We Link to the Unabomber? An Essay in Practical Web Ethics" (a practical and theoretical essay on the relation between the Unabomber's "Manifesto" and the world of scholarship.) LECTURES & PAPERS PRESENTED 2011: "Where Is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities?" (50-minute version). University of Nottingham. 5 July 2011. [Invited talk] "Where Is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities?" (30-minute version). Digital Literacies panel. The Future University conference. Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge University. 2 July 2011. [Invited talk] "4Humanities: The Digital Humanities Community & Humanities Advocacy." Luncheon address at centerNet General Business Meeting, Digital Humanities 2011 conference, Stanford, 22 June 2011. [Invited talk] "This is Not a Book: Long Forms of Shared Attention in the Digital Age." Panel on “What is a Book?”, Unbound Book Conference, Central Library, Amsterdam, and Royal Library, The Hague. 20 May 2011. [Invited talk] Workshop with Alan Liu, Patrik Svensson, and Whitney Trettien. HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden. 10 May 2011. [Invited talk] "Close, Distant, and Unexpected Reading: New Forms of Literary Reading in the Digital Age." HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden. 10 May 2011. [Invited talk] Page 9 of 23
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