Jessica Pressman, Ph.D.

UCLA Department of English
jessicapressman@sbcglobal.net

. Talks.

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Past Conferences

Mapping out Spaces for E-Lit Criticism”
Panel: “Mapping Process in New Media Landscapes”
Electronic Literature Organization Conference
Vancouver, Washington
May 29- June 1, 2008

“Digital Modernism”
Panel: “ReVisioning Electronic Literature: Origins and Influences”
Electronic Literature Organization Conference
Vancouver, Washington
May 29- June 1, 2008

 

“Remediating the Modern/Modernist Novel:  Judd Morrissey’s Digital Modernist Remix”
Panel: “Novel History, Media History” (#215)

Modern Language Association
Chicago
December 27-30, 2007

 

“Exploring Electronic Literature”
Panel: “Electronic Literature: Reading, Writing, Navigating” (#317)

Modern Language Association
Chicago
December 27-30, 2007

 

“Bob Brown’s Readies and Digital Readings,”
Modernist Studies Association
Long Beach, California,

November 1-4, 2007

 

“Multimedia Modernism” Seminar Leader
Modernist Studies Association
Long Beach, California,

November 1-4, 2007

“The Revolution and Evolution of Flash-ing Literature: Bob Brown's Readies and Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries”
Society of Literature, Science, and the Arts
New York City
November 9-12, 2006

“New Criticism and New Media: Close Reading Digital Literature and Digital Modernism”
Modernist Studies Association
Tulsa, Oklahoma
October 19-22, 2006

Co-Chair, UC Digital Cultures Graduate Conference
"Narr@tive: Digital Storytelling"
April 22-23, 2004
Hammer Museum, UCLA
The graduate conference focused on questioning how our practices of reading, writing, creating, analyzing, publishing, teaching, and thinking are being transformed by the Digital. How is the Digital transforming the stories we tell and our modes of telling them? The conference culminated with an evening of student work: electronic literature readings + new media art performances, as part of the "HyperText: Explorations in Electronic Literature" reading series at the Hammer Museum.

"Nano Narrative: A Parable from Electronic Literature"
Society of Literature and Science
Austin, Texas
October 23-26, 2003

Moderator
Southland Graduate Conference
UCLA
May 2, 2003

"House-ing a Cybernetic Novel: House of Leaves as a Posthuman Fairytale"
UC Digital Cultures Conference: Digital Utopia/Digital Dystopia, UCLA         
February 1-2, 2002

"Don DeLillo's Underworld: History as Hypertextual Storytelling"
Southland Graduate Conference
UCLA
May 11, 2001

Lectures

Presentation of Collaborative Project :"Medium-Specific Analysis: Analyzing the Specificities of Digital Texts"
with Alison Walker and David Shepard
UCLA Faculty Center
May 24, 2006

“Incorporating Electronic Literature into Introductory English Classes ”
UCLA Graduate Pedagogy Seminar: Special Topic on Teaching with Technology
March 23, 2006


"The Revolution of the Word: Textual Montage Ezra Pound's Cantos, Bob Brown's 'Readies,' and Young-Hae Chang's Dakota"
UCLA Americanist Research Colloquium
October 27, 2005

“Communication Systems in Don DeLillo's White Noise
Invited Guest Lecture, UCLA English 95: Introduction to Fiction, Professor Robert Maniquis
May 2004

“Teaching Electronic Literature”
UCLA Graduate Pedagogy Seminar
November 2004

”An Introduction to Electronic Literature”
Friends of English Salon, UCLA
December 4, 2003

"No Single Story, Only Readings: Victory Garden and the Role of Hypertext in Times of Crisis"
Invited Guest Lecture, Professor Victoria Vesna's undergraduate media course
November 5, 2001

Interviewed by Katie Pruett: "Eye on the Internet" about electronic literature
KRLD 1080 Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas                                          
March, 2001

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