English

EDUCATION:
Ph.D., English, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007
B.A., English and American Literature, Summa Cum Laude,  Highest Departmental Honors, Women’s Studies Program, Brandeis University, 1997

Personal web site: http://jessicapressman.commons.yale.edu/

INTERESTS: digital literature, 20th and 21st century American literature, modernism

My work pursues connections across literary experiments from the 20th and 21st centuries and across media forms.  I am interested in how technologies affect our understanding of literature, both in terms of aesthetics and reading practices.  My first book project, Digital Modernism: Making it New in New Media, reads contemporary works of digital literature in relation to literary modernism.  My current research focuses on how 21st century literature—both in print and online— responds to the threat of an increasingly paperless and multimodal society.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

--“The Strategy of Digital Modernism: Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries Dakota,” Modern Fiction Studies. 54.2, 2008.

--“Modern Modernisms: Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries and Digital Modernism,” forthcoming in Pacific Rim Modernisms, eds. Steve Yao, Mary Ann Gillies, and Helen Sword (University of Toronto Press, 2008).

--“Navigating Electronic Literature,” requested submission for online companion to Katherine Hayles’s Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008).

--“Reading the Code Between the Words,” Dichtung-Digital, no. 37, 2007.

--“House of Leaves: Reading the Networked Novel,” Studies in American Fiction. 34.1, Spring 2006.

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Digital Literature, 114: Writing in/on New Media,
Digital Literature, Introduction to American Literature: the 20th Century