Digital Humanities &/as Electronic Literature
Digital Humanities Initiative Talk Series
Date: 4 November 2025 (Tuesday)
Time: 9:00 am (HKT)
Via Zoom
Speaker: Prof. Jessica Pressman, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University
Moderator: Dr. Lidia Zhou, Lecturer, Department of Translation, CUHK
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About the talk
Digital humanities is often aligned with big data, computation, and technology, but digital humanities is also a set of methodologies, paradigms, and practices based in the experimental arts. This talk introduces digital humanities as a framework for understanding electronic (born-digital) literature, and vice versa. Prof. Pressman uses her own research trajectory as a means of introducing and explaining digital humanities, providing entrypoints for students, scholars, and creators to engage with and expand through digital humanities.
About the speaker
Jessica Pressman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University, where she co-founded SDSU’s Digital Humanities Initiative. She is the author of Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age (Columbia University Press, 2020), Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media (Oxford University Press, 2014), and co-author, with Mark C. Marino and Jeremy Douglass, of Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone’s Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit} (University of Iowa Press, 2015). She co-edited two volumes: Comparative Textual Media: Transforming theHumanities in the Postprint Era (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) with N. Katherine Hayles and Book Presence in a Digital Age (Bloomsbury Press, 2018) with Kiene Brillenburg Wurth and Kári Driscoll. She is at work on a book about 21st-century mermaid narrative. Her full CV, including recent research, can be found at www.jessicapressman.com.
