Craig Saper

Professor

csaper@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
email
Office Hours: Changes semester to semester
Campus Location: CNH301B
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Education

Ph.D. in English (Digital Rhetoric) from University of Florida (1990)

Craig Saper, author of Artificial Mythologies and Networked Art (University of Minnesota Press 1997 and 2001), co-edited Drifts in 2007 in Rhizomes and co-edited Imaging Place in 2008 in Textual Studies Canada. He has also edited Instant Theory (in Visible Languag) and Interactive Style (in Style). He wrote the introduction to Sharon Kivland's A Disturbance of Memory, volume II. Recent chapters appear in At A Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet (MIT 2006), Illogic of Sense (Alt-X 2007), Surrealist Games. (Fall 2009, forthcoming); and New Media/New Methods: The Academic Turn from Literacy to Electracy (2008). His recent scholarly articles include "Jouissance d'ennui," in Specs; "GIS Databases in Digital Humanities," Imaging Place, in Textual Studies Canadian (October 2008; forthcoming); "Folkvine.org as a Model of Virtual Tourism", in Digital Matter and Intangible Heritage (Fall 2008; forthcoming); "Blogademia," in Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (Winter 2006); "Interface to Hyperface: Odd Links and Cruel Design," Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, 11/12 (Summer/Fall 2006); and, "The Blog Report: Lack of Power in New Orleans," in Rhizomes (Summer/Fall 2006). A video-essay appears in Hyperrhiz (2006). He has five books forthcoming or nearing completion on the artist, poet, and inventor of a reading machine, Bob Brown. Professor previously was on the faculty at Indiana University, University of Pennsylvania, and the University of the Arts before arriving at UCF to direct the Texts and Technology program from 2002 through 2004.

Research Interests

Digital Rhetoric

New Media Studies

Online and Digital Scholarship

Visual Poetry

Networked Art

Heuretic Cultural Studies

Recent Research Activities

http://www.readies.org/typebound http://www.folkvine.org http://www.readies.org [use Firefox] http://www.readies.org/saper [links to many current research activities]

Selected Publications

Books

"A Postcard to Freud Returned: The Unconscious Structured like a Holiday? introduction to A Disturbance of Memory, volume II in the series Freud on Holiday by Sharon Kivland published by INFORMATION AS MATERIAL, and Cube Editions, Athens; introduction by Craig Saper. Including a Greek translation (2008).
Networked Art. University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Artificial Mythologies: A Guide to Cultural Invention. University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

Articles/Essays

Forthcoming "GIS Databases in Digital Humanities," in Imaging Place, a special issue of Textual Studies Canadian, co-editing (forthcoming); simultaneously submitted as an electronic edition of Rhizomes (Fall 2008).
Forthcoming "Applicants and Captions: A Surrealist (ethnography of) academia?" Surrealist Games, ed. Kanta Kochhar-Lindren et al. (University of Nebraska Press, 2008).
Forthcoming "Folkvine.org as a Model of Virtual Tourism", in "Digital Matter and Intangible Heritage," a special issue of the International Journal of Digital Cultural Heritage and E-Tourism, Vol. X, No. X(2008).
“Jouissance d’ennui,” specs, vol.1. Winter Park: Rollins, 2008.
"The Florida School’s Legacy: The Movie,” in New Media/New Methods: The Academic Turn from Literacy to Electracy (Palaver Press, 2008).
"Toward A Visceral Scholarship Online: Folkvine.org and Hypermedia Ethnography," Journal of E-Media Studies (Spring 2008).
"The Two Ulmers in e-Media Studies: Vehicle and Driver," The Illogic of Sense: The Gregory Ulmer Remix, editors, Darren Tofts and Lisa Gye (Denver: Alt-X, 2007). Also published in the in the Electropoetics Thread of Electronic Book Review.
"Editorial Introduction," with Ellen Berry, Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, 13 (Winter/Spring 2007). Special issue on Drifts.