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B.A. (1986), M.A. (1988) University of Virginia, English Language and Literature

Ph.D. University at Albany-SUNY (1997), English Studies (Teaching, Writing, Criticism). Dissertation: Cybertext Poetry: Effects of Digital Media on the Creation of Poetic Literature

Associate Professor in Humanities, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University (Cyberjaya, Malaysia), 2006

New Directions in Digital Poetry (Continuum, 2012) presents and discusses a series of case studies; Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms 1959-1995, a research monograph, was published in the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series at University of Alabama Press in 2007.

Critical work has appeared, or is forthcoming in: A Companion to Digital Literary Studies, Ernesto Melo e Castro: O Caminho do Leve (exhibition catalog), Entertext, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry, Sirena: poesia, arte y critica, Telling It Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s, African American Review, The Facts on File Companion to 20th Century American Poetry, SIGWEB Newsletter, Text Technology, Electronic Book Review, International Anthology of Digital Poetry (CD-ROM), Of(f) the W.W.W. (CD-ROM, European Media Arts Festival 1996), Callaloo, Hambone, Talisman, Exquisite Corpse, American Book Review, XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics, and other publications. Editor of The Little Magazine Volume 21 (CD-ROM, 1995), A Proto- Anthology of Hypermedia Poetry, Descriptions of an Imaginary Universe, Passages (WWW). Poetry Editor, Terra Nova (1998-2001). Assistant Editor, EJournal, The Little Magazine (WWW). Editor, Newark Review, We Press, Numerous conference presentations and performances including MLA, SIGGRAPH, ACM HYPERTEXT, ALLC/ACH, E-POETRY, FILE, and other lectures and performances in Brazil, Canada, China, England, France, Malaysia, Scotland, Singapore, and Thailand.