Dr David Ciccoricco
BS Journalism (Colorado), BA Hons, PhD (Canterbury)
| dave.ciccoricco@otago.ac.nz | |
| Phone | 64 3 479 6375 |
| Fax | 64 3 479 8558 |
| Office | 1S9 First Floor Arts Building Albany Street Dunedin |
| Department of English University of Otago PO Box 56 Dunedin New Zealand |
Expertise & Possible Supervision
• Contemporary narrative fiction; theory and poetics of narrative art.
• The convergence of digital technology and literary texts, including specific emphasis on "network fiction."
• Digital fiction, poetry, art and culture; post-humanist discourse.
• Media studies: language and multimedia and multimodal text/texts in digital culture.
• Gender studies and digital technology /culture.
• British/Irish and American modernist writing and culture; American postmodernist writing and culture.
• The aesthetics of repetition.
Teaching
ENGL 126 English for University Purposes
ENGL 252 Digital Literature: Technologies of Storytelling (new paper)
ENGL 352 Digital Literature: Technologies of Storytelling (new paper)
Recent Publications
Books
2007. Reading Network Fiction. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. associated website: http://readingnetworkfiction.net
Essays & Book chapters
2009. "A Perfect Future Unread: John Cayley's What We Will." RAW: Reading (and Writing) New Media. Jim Kalmbach and Cheryl Ball, eds. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press. (forthcoming)
2009. "Borges, Technology, and the same Infinite substance as the night." Cy-Borges: Memories of Posthumanism in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges. Stefan Herbrechter and Ivan Callus, eds. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press.
2008. "A Language of the Ordinary, or the eLEET? a review of Michael Joyce's Was." electronic book review (October 2008). http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/fictionspresent/knotted
2008. "Digital Text & English Pedagogy." (co-authored with Bill O'Steen). Kairos: a Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Alex Reid and Envera Dukaj, eds. http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/13.1/praxis/ciccoricco-osteen/index.htm
2008. "Play, Memory: Shadow of the Colossus and Cognitive Workouts." Dichtung Digital Special Edition: "New Perspectives on Digital Literature." Astrid Ensslin and Alice Bell, eds. http://www.dichtung-digital.org/
2006. "The Importance of Being Narratological." electronic book review (March 2006), http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/immersiverip
Professional Service
Editorial Board: Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds
A peer-refereed, international journal published by Intellect focusing on theoretical and applied, empirical, critical, rhetorical, creative, pedagogic, economic and professional approaches to the study of electronic games across platforms and genres as well as ludic and serious online environments.
Associate Editor: electronic book review (ebr), www.electronicbookreview.com
A peer-refereed international online journal that seeks critically-savvy, in-depth work that addresses the electronic future of fiction, poetry, criticism, theory, and the visual and performing arts.
Invited Scholar: Digital Fiction International Network (DFIN)
An international research initiative involving six researchers aimed at providing an arena for a new generation of scholars to collaborate on integral theoretical and analytical issues within digital fiction research, and profile pioneering approaches to the wider fields of literary studies, stylistics, and narratology.