Jessica Pressman | |
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Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Professor of English and Comparative Literature |
Academic background | |
Education | Brandeis University University of California, Los Angeles |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Electronic literature |
Institutions | San Diego State University |
Website | www |
Jessica Pressman is a scholar who studies electronic literature including digital poetry,media studies,and experimental literature. [1] [2] She creates works that examine how technologies affect reading practices that are displayed through several media forms. [3]
She currently teaches at San Diego State University,where she is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature. [4] Pressman co-founded (with Joanna Brooks) SDSU's Digital Humanities Initiative, [5] a faculty-led research initiative for the study of digital technologies and culture. She taught at Yale University from 2008 to 2012,as an Assistant Professor of English. Pressman also was a lecturer for the University of California's English department from 2013 to 2014. [6]
Jessica Pressman earned her bachelor's degree in English and American Literature,minor in Women's Studies at Brandeis University. Pressman received a Ph.D. in English at the University of California,Los Angeles. [6]
She worked for Cognitive Arts,founded by Roger Schank in 2000,where she became interested in narrative teaching games. She read George Landow's Hypertext and studied under N. Katherine Hayles. [7]
Pressman's monograph Bookishness:Loving Books in a Digital Age [8] examines how books still give meaning to our lives in the digital age,by serving not only as media to read through but as objects of attachment in ways that are "sentimental,fetishistic,[and] radical". [9] [10] [11] [12]
Her first book,Digital Modernism:Making it New in New Media (2014), [13] traces a genealogy of born-digital literature back to experimented in literary modernism and models how to adapt close reading methods to electronic literature. [14]
In 2015,Pressman co-wrote Reading Project:A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope (Bottomless Pit) [15] ,with Mark C. Marino and Jeremy Douglass,which won the Electronic Literature Organization's "N. Katherine Hayles Award for Literary Criticism of Electronic Literature" (2016). [3] In the case study format,the work examines the interpretation of digital poetics through three methodological approaches:critical code studies,close reading onscreen aesthetics,and data visualizations. [14]
Pressman has also co-edited two volumes:Comparative Textual Media:Transforming the Humanities in a Postprint Era [16] with N. Katherine Hayles (2013) and Book Presence in a Digital Age [17] with Kiene Brillenburg Wurth and Kári Driscoll (2018).
Pressman has authored and co-authored articles on digital literature. A [S]creed for Digital Fiction”provides a manifesto for multilinearity and summarizes the history of hypertext. [18]
Jesica Pressman's 2020 Bookishness:Loving Books in a Digital Age examines the book as an object and symbol to understand why pyscial books are still used in this digital age. [19] Rebecca Brenner Graham explain that this work looks at physical books through an "analytical,scholarly,and theoretical lens". [20] Mike Chaser notes that this work explores the implications of the fear about the end of books in a digital age. [21] Daniela Côrtes Maduro reviewed this work for a Portuguese audience. [22]
Katherine Hayles explains that Pressman has identified "the aesthetic of bookishness:where literary works examine the nature of the book itself. [23]
Robert Bernard Alter is an American professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. He published his translation of the Hebrew Bible in 2018.
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George Paul Landow was Professor of English and Art History Emeritus at Brown University. He was a leading authority on Victorian literature, art, and culture, as well as a pioneer in criticism and theory of Electronic literature, hypertext and hypermedia. He also pioneered the use of hypertext and the web in higher education.
Nancy Katherine Hayles is an American postmodern literary critic, most notable for her contribution to the fields of literature and science, electronic literature, and American literature. She is the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University.
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Jay David Bolter is the Wesley Chair of New Media and a professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His areas of study include the evolution of media, the use of technology in education, and the role of computers in the writing process. More recently, he has conducted research in the area of augmented reality and mixed media. Bolter collaborates with researchers in the Augmented Environments Lab, co-directed with Blair MacIntyre, to create apps for entertainment, cultural heritage and education for smart phones and tablets. This supports his theory regarding remediation where he discusses "all media functions as remediators and that remediation offers us a means of interpreting the work of earlier media as well".
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Simon E. Gikandi is a Kenyan Literature Professor and Postcolonial scholar. He is the Class of 1943 University Professor of English at Princeton University. He is perhaps best known for his co-editorship of The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. He has also done important work on the modern African novel, and two distinguished African novelists: Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. In 2019 he became the president of the Modern Language Association.
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María Mencía is a Spanish-born media artist and researcher working as a Senior Lecturer at Kingston University in London, United Kingdom. Her artistic work is widely recognized in the field of electronic literature, and her scholarship on digital textuality has been widely published. She holds a Ph.D. in Digital Poetics and Digital Art at the Chelsea College of Arts of the University of the Arts London and studied English Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid.
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