Joseph Tabbi | |
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| Born | 4 May 1960 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Cornell University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Bergen |
Joseph Tabbi (1960-) is a US academic living in Norway, and is a full professor at the University of Bergen. He is a literary scholar and theorist, notable for his contributions to the fields of American literature and electronic literature.[1]
Academic career
[edit]Tabbi received a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1989 for a dissertation titled "The Psychology of Machines: Technology and Personal Identity in the Work of Norman Mailer and Thomas Pynchon."[2] Tabbi joined the faculty of the University of Illinois Chicago, and then in 2019 he moved to the University of Bergen to take a position as Professor of English Literature.[3] In 2023 he became one of the Principal Investigators of the Center for Digital Narrative.
He was the first scholar granted access to the archives of the reclusive novelist William Gaddis,[4] and is the author of Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis[5][6] and the editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature[7] (2017) and Post-Digital: Critical Debates from electronic book review[8] (2020). His other works include Cognitive Fictions[9] (2002) and Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk[10] (1996).
Tabbi edits the scholarly journal Electronic Book Review[11] (ebr), which he founded with Mark Amerika. Tabbi is also the founder of Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL), an "open access, non-commercial resource offering centralized access to literary databases, archives, and institutional programs" in the humanities.[12]
Selected works
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- Joseph Tabbi (1996). Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-8383-7. Wikidata Q124646197.
- Joseph Tabbi (2002). Cognitive fictions. ISBN 978-0-816-63556-6. OCLC 237796412. Wikidata Q124646252.
- Joseph Tabbi (2015). Nobody grew but the business: on the life and work of William Gaddis. ISBN 978-0-8101-3142-2. OL 27182942M. Wikidata Q124646253.
Edited books
[edit]- Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology (Cornell University Press,1997) (with Michael Wutz) ISBN 9780801484032
- Paper Empire: William Gaddis and the World System (University of Alabama Press, 2007) (with Rone Shavers et al.) ISBN 9780817354060
- The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature (2017)
- Post-Digital: Critical Debates from electronic book review (2019)
References
[edit]- ^ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com.
- ^ WorldCat item page
- ^ "Joseph Paul Tabbi". University of Bergen. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
- ^ "Joseph Tabbi - Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
- ^ Scott, Joanna (30 July 2015). "The Virtues of Difficult Fiction". The Nation – via www.thenation.com.
- ^ Tabbi, Joseph (May 2015). Nobody Grew but the Business (First ed.). Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8101-3142-2. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
- ^ "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature".
- ^ "Post-Digital".
- ^ Herman, David (15 December 2018). "Cognitive Fictions (review)". Symploke. 12 (1): 294–296. doi:10.1353/sym.2005.0018. S2CID 143953971.
- ^ Mascaro, John (1999). "Kant Touch This: Joseph Tabbi's "postmodern Sublime"". Studies in the Novel. 31 (4): 506–515. JSTOR 29533360.
- ^ "about ebr – electronic book review". electronicbookreview.com. 18 January 2014.
- ^ Tabbi, Joseph. "About". CellProject.net. Consortium on Electronic Literature. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
