Monthly Archives: June 2009

Challenges in “Literature”?

By barbara | Published: June 9, 2009

In his Beyond the Beyond blog on Wired, science fiction writer and some time media theorist Bruce Sterling recently made a post entitled 18 Challenges in Contemporary Literature. This is certainly  provocative title, and my ears immediately perked up at it. But after reading the post, I have to say that I’m pretty befuddled, mainly [...]

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Litmap Presentation Notes

By barbara | Published: June 2, 2009

As promised, here are my notes from the lightning talk I gave yesterday at the Digital Humanities Symposium at UCLA. I spoke on my Litmap project, which is a Google Maps mash-up I’ve put together for the purpose of mapping the books that I’m writing on in my dissertation. As you can see, it’s a [...]

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