BS Journalism (Colorado), BA Hons, PhD (Canterbury)
Head of Programme
Email dave.ciccoricco@otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 6375
Office 1S9
First Floor
Arts Building
Albany Street
Dunedin
Mail English and Linguistics
University of Otago
PO Box 56
Dunedin 9054
New Zealand
Expertise and 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 120 Creative Writing: How to Captivate and Persuade
- ENGL 126 English for University Purposes
- ENGL 220 Creative Writing: Reading for Writers
- ENGL 342 Digital Literature: Technologies of Storytelling
- ENGL 467 Storyworlds and Cognition
Publications
Ciccoricco, D. (2022, June). Playing for the plot, or rather, higher-order systemic understanding. Verbal presentation at the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) International Conference on Narrative, [Hybrid].
Salter, A., Marino, M., Ciccoricco, D., Milligan, C. A., & Berge, P. (2022, May-June). Are we platforms? Rethinking pandemic pedagogies of electronic literature. Panel discussion at the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) International Conference & Media Arts Festival, [Hybrid].
Ciccoricco, D. (2022, May-June). Twine and critical moments: On systemic understanding. Verbal presentation at the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) International Conference & Media Arts Festival, [Hybrid].
Ciccoricco, D. (2022). Panexperientiality, media, and narrative's time management problem. In P. Dawson & M. Mākelā (Eds.), Routledge companion to narrative theory. (pp. 246-258). New York, NY: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003100157-23
Ciccoricco, D. (2022). The digital terrain of the literary anecdote. In D. Punday (Ed.), Digital narrative spaces: An interdisciplinary examination. (pp. 109-124). New York, NY: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003053880
Ciccoricco, D. (2015). Refiguring minds in narrative media. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 317p.
Authored Book - Research
Ciccoricco, D. (2007). Reading network fiction. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 256p.
Authored Book - Research
Ciccoricco, D. (2022). Panexperientiality, media, and narrative's time management problem. In P. Dawson & M. Mākelā (Eds.), Routledge companion to narrative theory. (pp. 246-258). New York, NY: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003100157-23
Chapter in Book - Research
Ciccoricco, D. (2022). The digital terrain of the literary anecdote. In D. Punday (Ed.), Digital narrative spaces: An interdisciplinary examination. (pp. 109-124). New York, NY: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003053880
Chapter in Book - Research
Ciccoricco, D., & Large, D. (2019). Caution, simulation ahead: Complexity and digital narrativity. In M. Grishakova & M. Poulaki (Eds.), Narrative complexity: Cognition, embodiment, evolution. (pp. 56-72). Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. doi: 10.2307/j.ctvhktjh6.8
Chapter in Book - Research
Ciccoricco, D. (2017). Rebooting cognition in electronic literature. In J. Tabbi (Ed.), Bloomsbury handbook of electronic literature. (pp. 151-164). Bloomsbury Academic. doi: 10.5040/9781474230285.ch-008
Chapter in Book - Research
Ciccoricco, D. (2017). The end of the book... In S. J. Burn (Ed.), American literature in transition, 1990-2000. (pp. 76-90). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316477069.006
Chapter in Book - Research
Ciccoricco, D. (2016). Cybernetic and kinetic: Representing subjectivity in digital fiction. In M. S. Reinerth & J.-N. Thon (Eds.), Subjectivity across media: Interdisciplinary and transmedial perspectives. (pp. 59-74). New York, NY: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Ciccoricco, D. (2016). Digital culture and posthumanism. In B. McHale & L. Platt (Eds.), Cambridge history of postmodern literature. (pp. 419-433). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CHO9781316492697.030
Chapter in Book - Research
Ciccoricco, D. (2014). Digital fiction and worlds of perspective. In A. Bell, A. Ensslin & H. K. Rustad (Eds.), Analyzing digital fiction. (pp. 39-56). New York: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Ciccoricco, D. (2014). Games as art/literature. In M.-L. Ryan, L. Emerson & B. J. Robertson (Eds.), John Hopkins guide to digital media. (pp. 220-224). Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Ciccoricco, D. (2014). Games as stories. In M.-L. Ryan, L. Emerson & B. J. Robertson (Eds.), John Hopkins guide to digital media. (pp. 224-228). Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Ciccoricco, D. (2012). Digital fiction: Networked narratives. In J. Bray, A. Gibbons & B. McHale (Eds.), Routledge companion to experimental literature. (pp. 469-482). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Ciccoricco, D. (2010). A perfect future unread: John Cayley's What we will. In C. E. Ball & J. Kalmbach (Eds.), RAW (Reading and writing): New media. (pp. 101-116). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Ciccoricco, D. (2010). Games of interpretation and a graphophiliac God of War. In M. Grishakova & M.-L. Ryan (Eds.), Intermediality and storytelling. (pp. 232-257). Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter.
Chapter in Book - Research
Ciccoricco, D. (2009). Borges, technology, and the same infinite substance as the night. In S. Herbrechter & I. Callus (Eds.), Cy-Borges: Memories of the posthuman in the work of Jorge Luis Borges. (pp. 73-87). Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Ciccoricco, D. (2021). Through the portal, and what Michael Joyce found there. Configurations, 29(2), 179-199. doi: 10.1353/con.2021.0011
Journal - Research Article
Ciccoricco, D. (2020). How to play a parable. Storyworlds [2018], 10(1-2), 21-46.
Journal - Research Article
Thoss, J., Ensslin, A., & Ciccoricco, D. (2018). Narrative media: The impossibilities of digital storytelling. Poetics Today, 39(3), 623-643. doi: 10.1215/03335372-7032788
Journal - Research Article
Ciccoricco, D. (2016). What [in the world] was postmodernism? An introduction. Electronic Book Review. Retrieved from http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/endconstruction/what
Journal - Research Article
Ciccoricco, D. (2012). Focalization and digital fiction. Narrative, 20(3), 255-276. doi: 10.1353/nar.2012.0021
Journal - Research Article
Ciccoricco, D. (2012). Narrative, cognition, and the flow of Mirror's Edge. Games & Culture, 7(4), 263-280. doi: 10.1177/1555412012454223
Journal - Research Article
Ciccoricco, D. (2012). The materialities of close reading: 1942, 1959, 2009. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 6(1). Retrieved from http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/6/1/000113/000113.html
Journal - Research Article
Bell, A., Ensslin, A., Ciccoricco, D., Rustad, H., Laccetti, J., & Pressman, J. (2010). A [s]creed for digital fiction. Electronic Book Review. Retrieved from http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/DFINative
Journal - Research Article
Ciccoricco, D. (2008). A language of the ordinary, or the eLEET? Electronic Book Review. Retrieved from http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/fictionspresent/knotted
Journal - Research Article
Ciccoricco, D., & O'Steen, B. (2008). Digital technology and English pedagogy: From traditional essays to a fabric of digital text. Kairos, 13.1. Retrieved from http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/13.1/praxis/ciccoricco-osteen/index.htm
Journal - Research Article
Ciccoricco, D. (2007). ″Play, memory″: Shadow of the Colossus and cognitive workouts. Dichtung-Digital, 37. Retrieved from http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2007/ciccoricco.htm%22Play
Journal - Research Article
Ciccoricco, D. (2019). Where the transmedial things are [Review of the book Transmedial narratology and contemporary media culture]. Poetics Today, 40(1), 159-166. doi: 10.1215/03335372-7259943
Journal - Research Other
Ciccoricco, D. (2015). Undead Letters and Archaeologies of the Imagination [Review of the book Foucault, in winter, in the Linnaeus Garden]. Electronic Book Review. Retrieved from http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/fictionspresent/Undying
Journal - Research Other
Ciccoricco, D. (2006). The importance of being narratological [Review]. Electronic Book Review. Retrieved from http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/immersiverip
Journal - Research Other
Ciccoricco, D. (2021). Diving into the world wide wreck: On New Zealand's digital literary history. Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (DHA) Conference: Ka Renarena Te Taukaea, Creating Community. Retrieved from http://dh.canterbury.ac.nz/dha2020
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Ciccoricco, D. (2020). Through the portal, and what Michael Joyce found there. Proceedings of the Electronic Literature Conference & Media Arts Festival (ELO). Retrieved from https://stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2020/
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Ciccoricco, D. (2011). Adaptating [sic] texts: The beauty of machinic perfection and human error. In E. Todd (Ed.), Creative Imitations and Appropriations: From Cinematic Adaptations to Re-makes: Research Colloquium: Programme and Refereed Abstracts. (pp. 5-6). Dunedin, New Zealand: Centre for Research on National Identity, University of Otago. [Abstract]
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Ensslin, A., Bell, A., Ciccoricco, D., & Rustad, H. (2010, April). Close-reading digital fiction: Analytic and pedagogic approaches. Poster session presented at the Teaching Digital Writing Conference, Leicester, UK.
Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)
Ciccoricco, D. (2022, June). Playing for the plot, or rather, higher-order systemic understanding. Verbal presentation at the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) International Conference on Narrative, [Hybrid].
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Ciccoricco, D. (2022, May-June). Twine and critical moments: On systemic understanding. Verbal presentation at the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) International Conference & Media Arts Festival, [Hybrid].
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Salter, A., Marino, M., Ciccoricco, D., Milligan, C. A., & Berge, P. (2022, May-June). Are we platforms? Rethinking pandemic pedagogies of electronic literature. Panel discussion at the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) International Conference & Media Arts Festival, [Hybrid].
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Ciccoricco, D. (2021, December). Infrastructures of data and twine. Verbal presentation at the 10th Aotearoa Digital Arts (ADA) Network Symposium, [Online].
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Ciccoricco, D. (2021, June). Confessions of a narratypical and the burden of embodied simulation [Featured presentation]. Verbal presentation at the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) 36th International Conference on Narrative, [Online].
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Ciccoricco, D. (2018, May). The Haylescyon days: A forecast for a new (digital, cognitive, literary) idiom. Verbal presentation at the Digital Humanities: Past Accomplishments, Future Directions, Uppsala, Sweden.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Ciccoricco, D. (2017, March). How to play a parable. Verbal presentation at the Narrative Conference, Lexington, USA.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Ciccoricco, D. (2015, June). Postmodernism, cognitive realism, and shoelaces. Verbal presentation at the What [in the World] Was Postmodernism? SYMPOSIUM, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Ciccoricco, D. (2014, June). The eternal sunshine of the spotless screen. Verbal presentation at the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) Conference: Hold the Light, Milwaukee, WI.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Ciccoricco, D. (2013, June). Dangerously unreliable narration in the gameworld of Bioshock. Verbal presentation at the International Conference on Narrative, Manchester, UK.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Ciccoricco, D. (2011, February). Adaptating [sic] texts: The beauty of machinic perfection and human error. Verbal presentation at the University of Otago Cultures, Histories and Identities in Film, Media and Literature Research Network Colloquium: Creative Imitations and Appropriations: From Cinematic Adaptations to Re-makes, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Ciccoricco, D. (2010, June). The materialities of close reading: 1942, 2009. Verbal presentation at the 4th International Conference & Festival of the Electronic Literature Organization: Archive & Innovate, Providence, RI.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Ciccoricco, D., & DelSordi, J. (2012). Neighbour. Hyperrhiz, 9. [Digital artwork]. Retrieved from http://www.hyperrhiz.net/hyperrhiz09
Creative Work
Ciccoricco, D. (2010). For Spalding Gray: Writing (noun). [Poetry] Takahe, 69(1), 47.
Creative Work
Ciccoricco, D. (2010). Oamaru welcomes you. [Poetry] Bravado, 19, 34-35.
Creative Work
Gordon, F., Hickin, R., Ciccoricco, D., & Cummins, N. (2021, May). Mapping Dunedin's stories. Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival. [Public Discussion].
Other Research Output
