Joseph Tabbi (May 4, 1960) is a US literary scholar and theorist, notable for his contributions to the fields of American literature and electronic literature.[1] He was the first scholar granted access to the archives of the reclusive novelist William Gaddis,[2] and is the author of Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis[3][4] and the editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature[5] (2017), Post-Digital: Critical Debates from electronic book review[6] (2020), and an additional forthcoming volume from Bloomsbury Publishing. His other works include Cognitive Fictions[7] (2002) and Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk[8] (1996). He edits the scholarly journal Electronic Book Review[9] (ebr), which he founded with Mark Amerika. Tabbi is also the founder of Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL), an "open access, non-commercial resource offering centralized access to literary databases, archives, and institutional programs" in the humanities.[10]

Biography

Tabbi received a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1989 for a dissertation titled "The Psychology of Machines: Technology and Personal Identity in the Work of Norman Mailer and Thomas Pynchon."[11]

Books

  • Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk (Cornell University Press, 1996) ISBN 9780801483837
  • Cognitive Fictions (University of Minnesota Press, 2002) ISBN 9780816635573
  • Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis (Northwestern University Press, 2015) ISBN 978-0-8101-3142-2

Edited books

  • Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology (Cornell University Press,1997) (with Michael Wutz) ISBN 9780801484032
  • Paper Empire: William Gaddis and the World System (University of Alabama Press, 2007) (with Rone Shavers et al.) ISBN 9780817354060
  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature (2017)
  • Post-Digital: Critical Debates from electronic book review (2019)

References

  1. ↑ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com.
  2. ↑ "Joseph Tabbi - Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
  3. ↑ Scott, Joanna (30 July 2015). "The Virtues of Difficult Fiction". The Nation – via www.thenation.com.
  4. ↑ Tabbi, Joseph (May 2015). Nobody Grew but the Business (First ed.). Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8101-3142-2. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  5. ↑ "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature".
  6. ↑ "Post-Digital".
  7. ↑ Herman, David (15 December 2018). "Cognitive Fictions (review)". Symploke. 12 (1): 294–296. doi:10.1353/sym.2005.0018. S2CID 143953971.
  8. ↑ Mascaro, John (1999). "Kant Touch This: Joseph Tabbi's "postmodern Sublime"". Studies in the Novel. 31 (4): 506–515. JSTOR 29533360.
  9. ↑ "about ebr – electronic book review". electronicbookreview.com. 2014-01-18.
  10. ↑ Tabbi, Joseph. "About". CellProject.net. Consortium on Electronic Literature. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  11. ↑ WorldCat item page
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