Katherine Hayles at UF
The Digital Assmebly is happy to announce that on February 29th, 2008 Katherine Hayles, Hillis Professor � of Literature in English and Media Arts at UCLA, will deliver her lecture, “Complex Ecologies of Narrative and Data: Moveable Type and Only Revolutions.” from 4-6 pm at Pugh Hall 120. She will also be leading a graduate seminar with UCF where we will discuss portions of her upcoming book, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary and her essay “Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes”.
The Games Studies Group launched 4 successful conferences at the University of Florida addressing gaming from an academic and trade perspective. In broadening our interests, we are particularly interested in looking at methods of addressing media, interdisciplinary approaches, and what impact media studies has had on literary studies and vice versa.
Reading Group Meetings Fall 2007
The Digital Assembly meets to discuss readings we have chosen as a group during the fall semesters. Please see the below for locations, times, and readings.
- September 28, 2007 8:00pm at Elise’s (email takehana@ufl.edu for directions) - Georg Stanitzek “Texts and Paratexts in Media” and Genette, Gerard. Introduction. Paratexts.
- October 26, 2007 at Zach’s (email zwhalen@english.ufl.edu for directions) - Mieke Bal, Quoting Caravaggio, Introduction and Jerz, Dennis. “Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original ‘Adventure’ in Code and in Kentucky.”
- November 30th, 2007 at Phil’s (email philsand@ufl.edu for directions) - W.J.T. Mitchell, Picture Theory, chapter 1 and Karen Lang's Chaos and Cosmos chapter 1 “Points of View in Panofsky's Early Theoretical Essays”