Department of English
Craig Saper

Craig Saper

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

Education

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

Articles/Essays

Spring 2010 Courses

Course Number Course Title Mode Date and Time
21769 ENC3311 ADVANCED EXPOSITORY WRITING WWW -
ENC 3311: Advanced Expository Writing

All the papers will focus on reading practices -- your specific memories and practices as well as larger cultural conceptions of literacy and the mechanics of reading. Students will write essays on these topics using the following methods: narrative description; definition; comparing and contrasting; cause/effect; and process. Students will write five essays of increasing length between 1500-2500-word (6 to 10 pages). The focus of this section is on writing about reading. Use of the major types of exposition. The reading requirements include a series of essays on the history of reading in the West from codex to codec. You should familiarize yourself with the professor's background, and think about your own reading practices from childhood to your present before the start of the class.
11224 ENG6810 THEORIES OF TEXTS & TECHNOLOGY Rdce Time Th 7:30PM - 9:00PM
PR: Graduate standing in any UCF department, but preference given to those accepted into the Texts and Technology program.

Introduces general theoretical concepts and issues as a basis for the study of texts and technology. We will look especially at the consequences of e-media on books, libraries, education, and scholarship. (Contact: Dr. Craig Saper, csaper@mail.ucf.edu )