Digital/Electronic Literature from the USA: Theories, Forms and Practices

An Introduction

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2024.i24.1584

Keywords:

Digital Humanities, Electronic literature, AI-generated texts, Hypertexts, Digital Literature

Abstract

Introduction to the special section of the Iperstoria issue “Digital/Electronic Literature from the USA: Theories, Forms and Practices.”

Author Biographies

  • Andrea Pitozzi, University of Bergamo

    Andrea Pitozzi (PhD) is post-doc fellow at the University of Bergamo (Italy), where he teaches Anglo-American literature. He has been Visiting Scholar at Fairleigh Dickinson University (New Jersey) and taught Textual and Comparative Studies at the University of Verona. He studies contemporary literature and poetry from a comparative perspective that draws on literary forms, aesthetics and theory; he is currently researching the forms of literary minimalism. Among his publications are the books Conceptual writing (Edizioni del Verri, 2018) and Verbale di scomparsa. Paul Auster negli specchi della teoria (La scuola di Pitagora, 2024), besides articles on contemporary authors such as Don DeLillo, Paul Auster, Jennifer Egan, among others, published in national and international journals.

  • Mario Verdicchio, University of Bergamo

    Mario Verdicchio (PhD) is an assistant professor at the University of Bergamo (Italy), where he teaches Information Technology to students in Digital Humanities, Foreign Literatures, and Philosophy. With a background in Artificial Intelligence, his research has expanded over the years to Philosophy of Computation, Ethics of Technology, and Computer Art. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and the Chukyo University in Nagoya, and he is currently a guest researcher at the Berlin Ethics Lab of the Technische Universität Berlin. He co-founded the international conference series on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X (xCoAx.org). His latest book Che cos’è il digitale is set to be published by Carocci Editore in January 2025.

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Published

2024-12-20

Issue

No. 24 (2024): Digital/Electronic Literature from the USA: Theories, Forms and Practices

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Articles: Special Section

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