Hi everyone,

Welcome to my blog for EGL. 614: Digital Rhetorics!  My name is Joelle Mann, and I’m a second-year doctoral student in the English Department. I am interested in modernism and 20th century poetry and poetics. Also, I am passionate about the public humanities: I am taking this class, in part, to distinguish new pedagogical and methodological intersections that exist between the public humanities and the digital humanities.  In the past, I have investigated how the spatial and visual modes of reading and thinking are continually affecting contemporary culture and aesthetics within our increasingly technological, public milieu. Before coming to Stony Brook, I taught high school English in Amherst, New York (a suburb just outside of Buffalo), and college reading and writing at Daemen College.

And yes, I do like the snow in Buffalo.

One moment during my personal technological literacy narrative that was profound occurred when I was an undergraduate at SUNY Buffalo. At SUNY Buffalo, I was exposed to their Digital Poetics Program, and I’ve linked their Electronic Poetry Center so that you can check it out here: SUNY Buffalo’s Electronic Poetry Center

The collaboration and enthusiasm of Buffalo’s program initially incited my own interests in both technology and poetry. I am excited to be returning to SUNY Buffalo in a few months for this conference. In addition, I am hoping to expand some of my research while I’m a student in this class. I’m looking forward to working with you all!

Loss Pequeño Glazier’s discussion of digital poesis in his field-defining book Digital Poetics: “The poet thinks through the poem. Similarly, investigated here is not the idea of the digital work as an extension of the printed poem, but the idea of the digital poem as the process of thinking through this new medium, thinking through making. As the poet works, the work discovers.”