New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age

Contributors

281 Contributors Alice Bell is a senior lecturer in English language and literature at Sheffield Hallam University. Her research interests include narrative theory, digital literature, stylistics , and Possible Worlds Theory. She is the principal investigator of the Digital Fiction International Network (funded by The Leverhulme Trust). She is the author of The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010). Her other publications include a contribution to Contemporary Stylistics, edited by Marina Lambrou and Peter Stockwell (Continuum, 2007), and she coedited with Astrid Ensslin “New Perspectives on Digital Literature: Criticism and Analysis,” a special issue of dichtung-digital, http://www.dichtung-digital.de/ (2007). Paul Cobley, reader in communications at London Metropolitan University, is the author of a number of books, including The American Thriller (Palgrave, 2000) and Narrative (Routledge, 2001). He is the editor of The Communication Theory Reader (Routledge, 1996), Communication Theories, 4 volumes (Routledge, 2006), The Routledge Companion to Semiotics (Routledge, 2009), and Realism for the 21st Century: A John Deely Reader (University of Scranton Press, 2009) among other books; coedits two journals, Subject Matters and Social Semiotics; and is associate editor of Cybernetics and Human Knowing. He is the series editor of Routledge Introductions to Media and Communications and co–series editor (with Kalevi Kull) of Semiotics, Communication and Cognition (Mouton de Gruyter). Astrid Ensslin is senior lecturer in digital humanities at the School of Creative Studies and Media, Bangor University. Her main research interests are in the areas of digital literature (especially fiction), discourse analysis, games and virtual environments , and language in the (new) media. She is principal editor of Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds and founding editor of the mhra Working Papers in the Humanities and has guest edited (with Alice Bell) the 2007 issue of dichtungdigital . Her further publications include Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions (Continuum, 2007), Language in the Media: Representations, Identities , Ideologies (coedited with Sally Johnson; Continuum, 2007), Creating Second Lives: Community, Identity, and Spatiality as Constructions of the Visual (coedited with Eben Mose; Routledge, 2011), as well as articles in Language and Literature, 282 Contributors Corpora, Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, Language Learning Journal, Gender and Language, and Sprache und Datenverarbeitung. She is coinvestigator of the Leverhulme-funded Digital Fiction International Network. Brian Greenspan is associate professor in the Department of English and the Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University in Ottawa, where he teaches contemporary literature and new narrative media. He is the founding director of the Hypertext and Hypermedia Lab, a facility for interdisciplinary graduate and postdoctoral research in the digital humanities, located in Carleton’s hci Institute. His published research comprises topics ranging from American and Australian fiction to hypertext narratives, video games, and interface design. Lately, his research interests have included New World utopian and dystopian narratives, digital culture, and the intersections between them. Nick Haeffner is senior lecturer in communications at London Metropolitan University . He is the author of Alfred Hitchcock (Pearson, 2005) and has published a range of articles on film, media, and cultural theory. In 2006 he cocurated a traveling interactive new media exhibition inspired by Hitchcock’s Vertigo. He is currently working on a book about the British film director Michael Winterbottom, titled In this World: Michael Winterbottom and Revolution Films. David Herman, who serves as the editor of the Frontiers of Narrative book series and the journal Storyworlds, teaches in the English department at Ohio State University in the United States. He has published widely in the areas of interdisciplinary narrative theory and storytelling across media. Recent projects include an edited volume titled The Emergence of Mind: Representations of Consciousness in Narrative Discourse in English (University of Nebraska Press, 2011) and a 2011 special issue of the journal SubStance, “Graphic Narratives and Narrative Theory,” co–guest edited by Jared Gardner. The New York Times termed Michael Joyce’s afternoon (Eastgate, 1987) “the granddaddy of hypertext fictions,” and he since has published numerous hypertext fictions on the web and on disk, as well as print collections of short fictions, prose pieces, and essays. His poems have been published in nor/, The Iowa Review, New Letters, Parthenon West, and elsewhere, and his most recent novel, Was: Annales Nomadique, a novel of internet, was published by Fiction Collective 2 in 2007. Another novel, Liam’s Going (2002), has recently been reissued in paperback by McPherson and Company. He has been collaborating in multimedia work with Venezuelan video artist Anita Pantin and Canadian composer Bruce Pennycook; and, more...