Tune In, Turn On: The Novel, the Family, and the Plug-In Drug
This article, forthcoming (January 2010) in an online casebook from Dalkey Archive Press on Curtis White’s Memories of My Father Watching TV, explores the peculiar…
Category: Articles
The Literary Machine: Blogging the Literature Course*
This essay, commissioned and written during summer 2006, was published in December 2009 in a volume edited by Ian Lancashire, entitled Teaching Literature and Language…
CommentPress: New (Social) Structures for New (Networked) Texts**
This article was originally released in draft form on MediaCommons, and then after review was published simultaneously on MediaCommons and in the Journal of Electronic…
MediaCommons: Scholarly Publishing in the Age of the Internet**
This article, which focuses on the genesis and development of the MediaCommons project, was published as a work-in-progress on MediaCommons in March 2007 in an…
The Pleasure of the Blog: The Early Novel, the Serial, and the Narrative Archive*
This article, published in the volume Blogtalks Reloaded: Social Software Research and Cases (eds. Thomas N. Burg and Jan Schmidt), argues for an understanding of…
On the Future of Academic Publishing, Peer Review, and Tenure Requirements**
This essay, commissioned by The Valve, represents my first foray into substantive writing about the digital future of scholarly publishing. It was this piece, incidentally,…
Performing Don DeLillo: Theatricality, Subjectivity, and the Borders of Genre
This article, which was published in a special issue of the French journal Profils américains on the work of Don DeLillo, focuses on a shift…
The Exhaustion of Literature: Novels, Computers, and the Threat of Obsolescence*
This article, published in the Fall 2002 issue of Contemporary Literature, explores representations of the sentient, writing computer in John Barth’s LETTERS and Richard Powers’s…
The Unmaking of History: Baseball, Cold War, Underworld
This article, published in UnderWords: Perspectives on Don DeLillo’s Underworld (ed. Joseph Dewey and Steven Kellman; University of Delaware Press/Associated University Presses, 2002), argues that…
The Clockwork Eye: Technology, Woman, and the Decay of the Modern
This article was developed in part from a conference paper delivered during International Pynchon Week in London in 1998; its argument is largely folded into…