Joseph Tabbi (1960-) is a US academic living in Norway,and is a full professor at the University of Bergen. He is a literary scholar and theorist,notable for his contributions to the fields of American literature and electronic literature. [1]
Tabbi received a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1989 for a dissertation titled "The Psychology of Machines:Technology and Personal Identity in the Work of Norman Mailer and Thomas Pynchon." [2] Tabbi joined the faculty of the University of Illinois Chicago,and then in 2019 he moved to the University of Bergen to take a position as Professor of English Literature. [3] In 2023 he became one of the Principal Investigators of the Center for Digital Narrative .
He was the first scholar granted access to the archives of the reclusive novelist William Gaddis, [4] and is the author of Nobody Grew but the Business:On the Life and Work of William Gaddis [5] [6] and the editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature [7] (2017) and Post-Digital:Critical Debates from electronic book review [8] (2020). His other works include Cognitive Fictions [9] (2002) and Postmodern Sublime:Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk [10] (1996). In 2024 he published The Cambridge Introduction to Literary Posthumanism. [11]
Tabbi edits the scholarly journal Electronic Book Review [12] (ebr),which he founded with Mark Amerika. Tabbi is also the founder of Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL),an "open access,non-commercial resource offering centralized access to literary databases,archives,and institutional programs" in the humanities. [13]
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