Eric Dean Rasmussen
Researcher
Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies
Homepage: http://elmcip.net/knowledgebase
Title: Researcher
Phone: +47 55 58 97 63
E-mail: Eric.Rasmussen@lle.uib.no
Visiting address: HF-bygget, Sydnesplassen 7
Room number: 363a
Eric Dean Rasmussen is Researcher in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen (UiB), where he is the Editor of the ELMCIP Knowledge Base, an online database about activity in and around the field of electronic literature and the digital literary arts. He also serves as Senior Editor and researcher for one of the longest-running, open-access critical journals, ebr, the Electronic Book Review.
Before returning to UiB, where he taught as a visiting førsteamanuensis in Humanistic Informatics, Rasmussen taught British and American literature and cultural studies at the Høgskolen i Nørd-Trondelag (HiNT), where he was an associate professor in English.
Rasmussen's interests include the aesthetics, ideology, and technics of 20th- and 21st-century literary and cultural forms; scholarly editing and publishing in the digital era; and the institutional transformation of the humanities, especially literary studies, via new media technologies, which faciliate collaborative research, teaching, and writing practices.
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in English, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Master of Arts (M.A.) in English, Emory University
- Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) with Honors in English, summa cum laude; Classics minor, Coe College
Rasmussen's writing has appeared in international publications including Federman's Fictions: Innovation, Theory, and the Holocaust (SUNY P, 2011), ebr, Choice, American Book Review, the minnesota review, and symploke.
He is also the editor of the Senseless Resistances special issue of the Electronic Book Review: a gathering of twelve essays that question models of cultural resistance and suggest ways literary studies might productively engage with ecological, economic, and communicative systems.
Research and Teaching Interests
Digital Humanities: digital textuality; database design; new media writing and publishing; electronic literature, web aesthetics
Literature: 20th- and 21st-century American literature; transnational modernism and postmodernism; world literatures in English; science, literature and technology
Literary theory and criticism: aesthetics; affect and emotions; the literary interview; materiality and materialisms; poststructuralism and deconstruction; psychoanalysis; systems theory
Cultural Studies: American history and society; ideology and politics; media studies and the network society
Knowledge Base Editor for ELMCIP: Developing a Networked-Based Creatie Community: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice.