2011 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Carolyn Guertin

Saturday, March 12, 2011 @ 5:30pm, Capitol Ballroom

Featured Speaker: Carolyn Guertin

Carolyn Guertin is a cyberfeminist, photographer, and digital media scholar who specializes in digital narrative. She holds a dual appointment in new media, as director of the eCreate Lab and assistant professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is also a faculty member at Transart Institute, a low-residency MFA program in Berlin, Germany. She earned her PhD in digital narrative from the University of Alberta in 2003 and, from 2004 to 2006, she was Senior McLuhan Fellow and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. A director and literary adviser to the Electronic Literature Organization, an editor of Convergence, and an elected member of the Modern Language Association's Committee on Information Technology, she has published, exhibited, and taught internationally. She is currently working on a book called Digital Prohibition: The Death of the Author, The Rise of the Multitude.

Photo by Katherine Jin.