2025
Journal - Research Article
Ciccoricco, D. (2025). E-legitimate offspring: Tracing literary and ludic convergence. Humanities, 15, 4. doi: 10.3390/h15010004
Ciccoricco, D. (2025). If you give a narratologist a muffin: Storying the object-oriented associative impulse. Style, 59(1), 35-54. doi: 10.5325/style.59.1.0035
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Ciccoricco, D. (2025, July). E-legitimate histories of an e-literary community. Panel discussion at the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) Conference: Love Letters to the Past and Future, Toronto, Canada.
Other Research Output
Ciccoricco, D. (2025, November). Screenshots from the literary apocalypse. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Inaugural Professorial Lecture].
2024
Chapter in Book - Research
Ciccoricco, D. (2024). Networks. In A. Hammond (Ed.), Technology and literature. (pp. 344-357). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108560740.021
Journal - Research Article
Yeager, S. A., & Ciccoricco, D. (2024). Embodied simulations and neurodivergent temporalities in To the Moon. Configurations, 32(2), 111-128. doi: 10.1353/con.2024.a924125
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Ciccoricco, D. (2024, May). BabyHex: Reflections on parenting unruly AI. Verbal presentation at the Aotearoa Digital Arts Network (ADA) Symposium, Wellington, New Zaeland.
2023
Chapter in Book - Research
Ciccoricco, D. (2023). Panexperientiality, media, and narrative's time management problem. In P. Dawson & M. Mäkelä (Eds.), Routledge companion to narrative theory. (pp. 246-258). New York, NY: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003100157-23
Journal - Research Article
Ciccoricco, D. (2023). Digital literary landmarks of Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 36, 3-21. doi: 10.26686/jnzs.iNS36.8324
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Yeager, S. A., & Ciccoricco, D. (2023, March). Embodied simulations of neurodivergent temporalities in To the Moon. Verbal presentation at the 38th Annual International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) Conference on Narrative, [Hybrid].
Ciccoricco, D., Standring-Bellugue, U., Greaves, C., & Cone, J. (2023, July). Historicizing / hypothesizing digital-literacy practice in Aotearoa. Panel discussion at the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) Conference: Overcoming divides: Electronic literature and social change, [Hybrid].
2022
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
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Ciccoricco, D., Raley, R., & Standring Bellugue, U. (2022, September). The matrix delivers BabyX: Simulation for the next five minutes. Panel discussion at the Aotearoa Digital Arts Network (ADA) Symposium, [Hybrid].
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].
2021
Journal - Research Article
Ciccoricco, D. (2021). Through the portal, and what Michael Joyce found there. Configurations, 29(2), 179-199. doi: 10.1353/con.2021.0011
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
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 - 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].
Ciccoricco, D. (2021, June). Confessions of a narratypical and the burden of embodied simulation [Invited feature presentation]. Verbal presentation at the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) 36th International Conference on Narrative, [Online].
Other Research Output
Gordon, F., Hickin, R., Ciccoricco, D., & Cummins, N. (2021, May). Mapping Dunedin's stories. Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival. [Public Discussion].
2020
Journal - Research Article
Ciccoricco, D. (2020). How to play a parable. Storyworlds [2018], 10(1-2), 21-46.
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/
2019
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
Journal - Research Other
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
Other Research Output
Ciccoricco, D. (2019, April). Simulation & posthumanities. Invited lecture at the Transcriptions Center, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. [Research Presentation].
Ciccoricco, D. (2019, March). "Simulation and the posthumanities". Invited talk at the Digital Humanities Centre, College of Arts and Letters, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA. [Research Presentation].
Ciccoricco, D. (2019, October). "Literary tourism, geo-narratives, and public humanities; Or, why there's an app for that". Centre for the Book, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Public Lecture].
2018
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
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Ciccoricco, D., & Ritchie, A. (2018, September). Launching the Digital Humanities Hub | Te Pokapū Matihiko o te Kete Aronui. Verbal presentation at the Digital Humanities Expo, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Ciccoricco, D., & Baxter, G. (2018, September). Introducing d-tour: A Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature experience. Verbal presentation at the Digital Humanities Expo, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Ciccoricco, D. (2018, August). Narratologize it, don't criticize it: feat. With those we love alive. Verbal presentation at the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) Conference: Mind the gap! Montreal, Canada.
Ciccoricco, D. (2018, May). The Haylescyon days: A forecast for a new (digital, cognitive, literary) idiom [Invited]. Verbal presentation at the Digital Humanities: Past Accomplishments, Future Directions, Uppsala, Sweden.
Intellectual Property
Ciccoricco, D. (2018). dtour [Trademark]. (1105975).
2017
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
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
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.
2016
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.
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
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
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Ciccoricco, D., Fisher, C., & Szilak, I. (2016, June). Narratives and narrativity. Verbal presentation at the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) Conference & Media Art Festival, Victoria, Canada.
Other - Edited Journal
Ciccoricco, D. (Ed.). (2016). Electronic Book Review, [Special issue: Gathering: "What [in the world] was postmodernism?"]. Retrieved from http://www.electronicbookreview.com/node/2551
2015
Authored Book - Research
Ciccoricco, D. (2015). Refiguring minds in narrative media. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 317p.
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
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Ciccoricco, D. (2015, November). Great escalations: Nostalgia in a novel of the everyday. Verbal presentation at the Memory Research in Aotearoa New Zealand Symposium, Wellington, New Zealand.
Ciccoricco, D. (2015, June). Postmodernism, cognitive realism, and shoelaces. Verbal presentation at the What [in the World] Was Postmodernism? SYMPOSIUM, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Other Research Output
Ciccoricco, D. (2015, September). "Simulation, metaphor and an obese pink monster". Department of English Colloquium Series, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, USA. [Research Presentation].
2014
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.
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.
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.
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.
2013
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.
2012
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.
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
Ciccoricco, D. (2012). Focalization and digital fiction. Narrative, 20(3), 255-276. doi: 10.1353/nar.2012.0021
Ciccoricco, D. (2012). Narrative, cognition, and the flow of Mirror's Edge. Games & Culture, 7(4), 263-280. doi: 10.1177/1555412012454223
Creative Work
Ciccoricco, D., & DelSordi, J. (2012). Neighbour. Hyperrhiz, 9. Retrieved from http://www.hyperrhiz.net/hyperrhiz09
Other Research Output
Ciccoricco, D. (2012, May). "Digital fiction: Who speaks, who sees, who operates". Project Narrative Seminar, College of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA. [Research Presentation].
2011
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 - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Ciccoricco, D. (2011, April). Minds at play: Narrative and cognition in Mirror's Edge. Verbal presentation at the Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture & American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) and the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture & American Culture Association, San Antonio, USA.
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.
2010
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.
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.
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
Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)
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 - 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.
Creative Work
Ciccoricco, D. (2010). Oamaru welcomes you. Bravado, 19, 34-35. [Poetry].
Ciccoricco, D. (2010). For Spalding Gray: Writing (noun). Takahe, 69(1), 47. [Poetry].
Other Research Output
Ciccoricco, D. (2010, June). The materialities of close reading: 1942, 2010. Project Narrative Seminar, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. [Public Seminar].
2009
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.
2008
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
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
2007
Authored Book - Research
Ciccoricco, D. (2007). Reading network fiction. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 256p.
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
2006
Journal - Research Other
Ciccoricco, D. (2006). The importance of being narratological [Review]. Electronic Book Review. Retrieved from http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/immersiverip
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Ciccoricco, D. (2006). The play of memory's shadow: Episodic and procedural memory in video games. 20th Annual Conference for the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA): Evolution: Biological, cultural, and cosmic. Retrieved from https://dactylfoundation.org/
2004
Journal - Research Article
Ciccoricco, D. (2004). Tending the garden plot: Victory Garden and Operation Enduring... Electronic Book Review. Retrieved from https://electronicbookreview.com/essay/tending-the-garden-plot-victory-garden-and-operation-enduring/
Ciccoricco, D. (2004). Network vistas: Folding the cognitive map. Image & Narrative. Retrieved from https://www.imageandnarrative.be/inarchive/issue08/daveciccoricco.htm
2003
Journal - Research Article
Ciccoricco, D. (2003). The contour of a contour. Electronic Book Review. Retrieved from https://electronicbookreview.com/essay/the-contour-of-a-contour/
Ciccoricco, D. (2003). What remains in Liam's Going. Electronic Book Review. Retrieved from https://electronicbookreview.com/essay/what-remains-in-liams-going/
2002
Journal - Research Article
Ciccoricco, D. (2002). Return to twilight. Electronic Book Review. Retrieved from https://electronicbookreview.com/essay/return-to-twilight/
