Hannah Maria Leontine Ackermans
- E-mailHannah.Ackermans@uib.no
- Visitor AddressSydnesplassen 7HF-bygget5007 Bergen
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Hannah Ackermans is a PhD candidate in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. Ackermans researches the social and technological aspects of academic digital practices in the field of electronic literature, in order to provide insights into digital practices as theory-building methodologies in the humanities. In addition to their research and teaching record in electronic literature and digital humanities, Ackermans was co-director of the Digital Humanities Network at the University of Bergen throughout 2019 and is a member of the ELMCIP Knowledge Base editorial board.
- (2021). Follow the Pathfinders: a Case Study Approach to Production, Use, and Readership on Scalar. Hyperrhiz: New Media Culture.
- (2021). Better with the Sound On; or, The Singularity of Reading and Writing Under Constraint. Electronic Book Review (EBR).
- (2020). How an Academic Companion Website Makes Media-Specific Arguments. American Quarterly. 1011-1020.
- (2020). Appealing to Your Better Judgement: A Call for Database Criticism. Electronic Book Review (EBR).
- (2019). Electronic Literature in the Database and the Database in Electronic Literature. Communications, Media, Design. 5-18.
- (2015). The Imprisoned Text: An Analysis of the Performativity of the Preservational Acts of Archives. BLIK: tijdschrift voor audiovisuele cultuur. 9-18.
- (2015). From Letters to Vlog Entries: Truthfulness as a Literary Trope in Fictional Life Writing. Frame Journal of Literary Studies. 135-148.
- (2020). A Stretch of the Imagination: Transforming Writing Under Constraint into an Inclusive Practice .
- (2019). Nodes Without Edges: Peripheries of the Database.
- (2019). How to Review a Database.
- (2021). Classroom Netprov: A Walkthrough of Electronic Literature Support Group for Teachers. Kairos.
- (2016). "Flows Dream / Shapes Hold": Tijdsgebondenheid, Overwriting, en Remixen in Generatieve Dichtkunst. Vooys: tijdschrift voor letteren. 21-32.
- (2021). [book review] Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities. Contemporary Women's Writing (CWW).
- (2021). Genre-bending on an Academic Platform: Three Creative Works on Scalar. 5 pages.
- (2019). Narrating the Sociality of the Database: A Digital Hermeneutic Reading of The Atlas Group Archive and haikU. 5 pages.
- (2020). Born-Digital Publications: Public Databases, Hypertext Journals, and Companion Websites as Digital Humanities Tools. Diggit Magazine.
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The (Inter)Faces of Electronic Literature: Scholarly Experiments that Built a DH Field
Through a series of case studies, my dissertation analyzes the formative nature of interfaces in the field of electronic literature, ranging from public databases to born-digital publication platforms and genres. I also include literary analysis of works of electronic literature to uncover the arguments inscribed into interface structures. Considering these projects as interfaces does not take away from the human elements of research, but rather recognizes that interfaces consolidate the various scholarly, social, and technological processes that together make up the field of electronic literature. In this dissertation, I argue that digital research practices in electronic literature materially conceptualize their subject and readers and how this affects the development of the field.