Articles Archive

• October 2009

  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...

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• October 2009

  The Literary Machine: Blogging the Literature Course*

  This essay, commissioned and written during summer 2006, was published in December 2009 in a volume...

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• October 2007

  CommentPress: New (Social) Structures for New (Networked) Texts**

  This article was originally released in draft form on MediaCommons, and then after review was published...

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• March 2007

  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...

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• February 2007

  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....

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• January 2006

  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...

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• October 2005

  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...

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• November 2002

  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,...

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• October 2002

  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;...

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• August 2002

  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...

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• September 2001

  Network: The Other Cold War*

  This article focuses on the relationship between Cold War politics, as represented in the film Network,...

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