Thanks to a grant from the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study at UC Berkeley (2017-18), my colleague Prof. Scott Rettberg from the University of Bergen and I were able to establish a research cooperation within both our universities, in order to explore the relationships between creative practice, digital method based literary research in e-lit, and the use of e-lit in a DH curriculum.
On April 6, 2018, we convened a workshop that brought to UC Berkeley scholars and graduate students from different Californian Universities: Prof. Jessica Pressman (San Diego State University), Prof. Jeremy Douglas (UC Santa Barbara), Prof. Mark Marino (University of South California), Prof. Noah Wardrip-Fruin (UC Santa Cruz), Prof. Stephanie Boluk (UC Davis), and Prof. Patrick Lemieux (UC Davis); as well as from Bergen: Prof. Jill Walker Rettberg, Prof. Scott Rettberg, Prof. Mia Zamora and grad student Alvaro Seiça; the University of Galway in Ireland: Prof. Anne Karhio; and, finally, UC Berkeley: grad students Ryan Ikeda and Justin Berner, DH program director Dr. Claudia Von Vacano, and myself.
The group reconvened in October 2019 at UC Santa Barbara, hosted by Jeremy Douglass from Transcriptions, a Digital Humanities research center in Literature, Culture & Media. The group expanded to count with the participation of Hannah Ackermans (U of Bergen), Joe Tabbi (U of Bergen), Claudia Kozak (U of Buenos Aires) and Talan Memmott (Winona State University).
Together we are publishing a gathering of articles tentatively called E-Lit Frame[works] for Critical Digital Humanities coming out Spring 2020.