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Liu, Alan

Education:

B.A., English Literature, summa cum laude, Yale University,

One thousand.A., Creative Writing, Stanford University, 1979

Ph.D., English language Literature, Stanford University, 1980

Alan Liu is Distinguished Professor in the English Section at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has in the past served as Chair (2008-2012), Graduate Plan Director, and Undergraduate Program Director. He is likewise an affiliated faculty fellow member of UCSB's Center for It & Society and Media Arts & Technology program. Previously, he was on the faculty of Yale University's English Department and British Studies Program.

His research began in the field of British romantic literature and art. A first book, Wordsworth: The Sense of History (Stanford UP, 1989), explored the relation between the imaginative experiences of literature and history. Theoretical essays in the 1990s then explored cultural criticism, the "new historicism," and postmodernism in gimmicky literary studies. In 1994, when he started his Voice of the Shuttle Spider web site for humanities research, he began to study data culture as a style to shut the circuit between the literary or historical imagination and the technological imagination. Books published since then include The Laws of Absurd: Knowledge Work and the Civilization of Information (U. Chicago Printing, 2004),Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database (U. Chicago Press, 2008), and Friending the Past: The Sense of History in the Digital Age (U. Chicago Press, 2018). Recent essays include "Toward a Diversity Stack: Digital Humanities and Diversity as Technical Problem"; "Is Digital Humanities a Field?—An Answer from the Signal of View of Language"; "N + 1: A Plea for Cross-Domain Data in the Digital Humanities"; and "The Significant of the Digital Humanities".

(Photograph past Priscilla Leung, 2017)

Liu founded the NEH-funded Teaching with Engineering science project at UC Santa Barbara chosen Transcriptions: Literature and the Culture of Information and his English Dept'south undergraduate specialization on Literature and the Culture of Information. During 2002-2007 he was a member of the Lath of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) and chair of the Engineering/Software Commission of the ELO'southward PAD Initiative (Preservation / Archiving / Dissemination of Electronic Literature). Digital initiatives or projects he has led include Transliteracies: Inquiry in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading, a Academy of California multi-campus, collaborative research group (2005-10); RoSE (Enquiry-oriented Social Environment), a software project funded by a NEH Digital Humanities Start-upwardly grant (2011-12); and the 4Humanities.org WhatEvery1Says projection, a large-data research initiative focused on public discourse about the humanities funded by the Mellon Foundation (2017-2020). He is co-founder and -leader of the international 4Humanities.org advocacy initiative likewise every bit 4Humanities@UCSB (the 4Humanities local chapter at UCSB).

Contact

Role:

Office Hours:

Wednesday. 2-3 pm (during Bound 2022)

Email:

ayliu [at] english.ucsb.edu

Mailing Address:

English Department
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170

Fields/Affiliations:

Transcriptions: The Culture of Data

Cultural Studies

Literary Theory

Literature and Engineering science

Romantic Literature

Research Interests:

• Digital Humanities
• British Romantic Literature and Fine art
• Literary Theory
• New Media and Engineering

Publications

Research Excerpt:

"I am interested in the cultural life of information or, more broadly, of contemporary knowledge piece of work. My specific question concerns the role of literature in that cultural life. What is the future of literature when all civilization is increasingly the culture of information and when even literary scholars subordinate literature to an apparent clone of data: cultural context?"

--from "The Future Literary: Literature and the Culture of Data" (Time and the Literary, ed. Karen Newman, Jay Clayton, Marianne Hirsch; Routledge, 2002)

Articles & Capacity:

• "Digital Humanities and Academic Change," English Notes 47 (forthcoming 2009): 17-35
• "A Poem Should Be Equal To: / Non True," preface to Romanticism, History, Historicism: Essays on an Orthodoxy, ed. Damian Walford Davies (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. xiii-xx
• "When Was Linearity? What Graphics Hateful in the Digital Age," Digital History <http://digitalhistory.unl.edu/>
• "Literature+", Currents in Electronic Literacy (Bound 2008), <http://currents.cwrl.utexas.edu/Spring08/Liu>
• "Higher Didactics and Online Lifelong Learning: V Theses," Academy Exchange, Effect 6 (Summer 2007): 34-35
• "Imagining the New Media Run into," Introduction to A Companion to Digital Literary Studies, ed. Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007: 3-25.  Also bachelor online, <www.digitalhumanities.org/companionDLS>
• "The Humanities: A Technical Profession," Andrew Delbanco, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Alan Liu, and Catharine R. Stimpson, The Idea and Ideals of the University, ACLS Occasional Newspaper No. 63, 2007 <http://www.acls.org/op63.pdf>
• "Understanding Knowledge Work," Criticism 47 (2005): 249-60
• "A Transformed Revolution: The Prelude, Books nine-13," William Wordsworth'southward "The Prelude": A Casebook, ed Stephen Gill (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006): 341-75 [excerpt reprinted from Chapter 8 of Wordsworth: The Sense of History]
• "The New Historicism and the Work of Mourning," The Wordsworthian Enlightenment: Romantic Poetry and the Environmental of Reading, ed. Helen Regueiro Elam and Frances Ferguson (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005): 149-57 [reprint of "The New Historicism and the Work of Mourning," Studies in Romanticism 35 (1996): 553-62]
• "The Humanities: A Technical Profession," Education, Technology, Textuality: Approaches to New Media, ed. Michael Hanrahan and Deborah Madsen (Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005): 11-26
• "Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse," Critical Inquiry 31 (2004): 49-84
• "Sidney's Applied science: A Critique by Technology of Literary History," Acts of Narrative, ed. Ballad Jacobs and Henry Sussman (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003): 174-94
• "Remembering the Bandbox Goose: Historicism, Postmodernism, Romanticism," South Atlantic Quarterly 102 (2003): 263-78
• "The Futurity Literary: Literature and the Culture of Information," Time and the Literary, ed. Karen Newman, Jay Clayton, Marianne Hirsch (New York: Routledge, 2002): 61-100

• "Knowledge in the Age of Knowledge Work," Profession 1999: 113-24 (Also: Reply to Letter from William Pitsenberger Regarding "Knowledge in the Age of Knowledge Work," Profession 2000: 186-88)
• "The Downsizing of Cognition: Cognition Work and Literary History," abridged and edited by Randolf Starn, in Alan Liu, Miryam Sas, Albert Ascoli, and Sharon Marcus, Knowledge Work, Literary History, and the Time to come of Literary Studies, ed. Randolf Starn, Doreen B. Townsend Heart Occasional Papers, No. 15 (Berkeley, Calif.: Townsend Middle, 1998): 1-22
• "Globalizing the Humanities: 'The Voice of the Shuttle: Spider web Page for Humanities Inquiry,'" Humanities Collections 1, no. ane (1998): 41-56
• "The New Historicism and the Piece of work of Mourning," Studies in Romanticism 35 (1996): 553-62 (special issue guest edited by Helen Regueiro Elam)
• "The History in 'Imagination,'" Romanticism: A Critical Reader, ed. Duncan Wu (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1995), pp. 84-119 (reprint of Chap. 1 of Wordsworth: The Sense of History)
• "Die interdisziplinäre Kriegsmaschine," Texte zur Kunste No. 12 (Nov. 1993): 127-37 (German abridged version of "The Interdisciplinary War machine," later published in English language in Liu, Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database)
• "The Economy of Lyric: The Ruined Cottage," Romantic Poetry: Contempo Revisionary Criticism, ed. Karl Kroeber and Gene Westward. Ruoff (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1993), pp. 139-53 (abridged reprint of Chapter 7 of Wordsworth: The Sense of History)
• "Local Transcendence: Cultural Criticism, Postmodernism, and the Romanticism of Particular," Representations 32 (Autumn 1990): 75-113
• "Wordsworth and Subversion: Trying Cultural Criticism," Yale Journal of Criticism 2, no. 2 (Spring 1989): 55-100
• "The Power of Formalism: The New Historicism," ELH 56 (1989): 721-71.
  Translations of "The Power of Formalism"

  :

  • "El Poder del Formalismo: El Nuevo Historicismo," Nuevo Historicismo, ed. Antonio Penedo y Gonzalo Pontón (Madrid: Arco/Libros, 1998) (Spanish translation of "The Power of Ceremonial," originally published 1989)
  • "Die Macht des Formalismus: Der New Historicism," New Historicism. Literaturgeschichte als Poetik der Kultur, ed. Moritz Baßler (Frankfurt am M.: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1995): 94-163 (German language translation of "The Power of Formalism," originally published 1989)
  • "Il potere del formalismo: il nuovo storicismo," trans. Angela Tranfo, L'Asino d'oro 4, no. 8 (Nov 1993; special result on "Il nuovo storicismo"): 78-122 (Italian translation of "The Power of Ceremonial," originally published 1989)
• Review Article on David Simpson's Wordsworth'south Historical Imagination, The Wordsworth Circle 19 (1988): 172-81
• "Christopher Smart'south 'Uncommunicated Messages': Translation and the Ethics of Literary History," Boundary 2, xiv, Nos. 1-2 (1985-86): 115-46
• "Wordsworth: The History in 'Imagination,'" ELH 51 (1984): 505-48
• "On the Autobiographical Present: Dorothy Wordsworth'south Grasmere Journals," Criticism 26 (1984): 115-37
• "Toward a Theory of Common Sense: Beckford's Vathek and Johnson's Rasselas," Texas Studies in Literature and Linguistic communication 26 (1984): 183-217
• "'Shapeless Eagerness': The Genre of Revolution in Books 9-x of The Prelude," Modern Linguistic communication Quarterly 43 (1982): 3-28

Other Publications:

• "Born-Again Bits: A Framework for Migrating Electronic Literature," lead author (co-authors: David Durand, Nick Montfort, Merrilee Proffitt, Liam R. E. Quin, Jean-Hugues Réty, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin), Electronic Literature Organization, July 2005, < http://www.eliterature.org/pad/bab.html >
• "The Future of Technology and Learning in the University: A White Paper," co-authors, Bruce Bimber, Kevin Almeroth, Rob Patton, Dorothy Chun, Andrew Flanagin, Alan Liu. UCSB Centre for It and Society, March 4, 2002, <http://world wide web.cits.ucsb.edu/site/techmemo/alphabetize.pdf>.  Also bachelor from University of California eScholarship Repository <http://repositories.cdlib.org/isber/cits/4/>
• The Ultrabasic Guide to the Cyberspace for Humanities Users at UCSB (Santa Barbara, CA: University of California, Santa Barbara, Bookstore, 1994).  (124 pg. guide to basic Unix, due east-mail, ftp, telnet, usenet, gopher, World wide web, etc., used every bit text for my courses well-nigh or utilizing the Net; also fabricated bachelor through publication past the campus bookstore to general UCSB humanities community)

Projects

Forthcoming Projects:

• "We Volition Really Know," Switching Codes, ed. Thomas Bartscherer and Roderick Coover (Chicago: University of Chicago Printing, forthcoming)
• "Thinking Devastation: Creativity, Rational Choice, and Destruction Theory," Occasions (online journal) (forthcoming)
• "The End of the Finish of the Book: Dead Books, Lively Margins, and Social Calculating," Michigan Quaterly Review (forthcoming)

Projects (Initiatives, Grants, etc.):

• Principal Investigator, 2005-2010: Transliteracies: Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading <http://transliteracies.english language.ucsb.edu> (University of California Multicampus Research Group, 2005-2010).  Interdisciplinary projection designed to study and develop innovations in the practices of online reading.  Electric current special focus: "social computing" every bit a bridge between scholarly and public online reading environments.  Funded initially by a $175,000 University of California Office of the President grant (plus $259,000 of University of California, Santa Barbara, cost sharing), the project includes amidst its participants 24 University of California faculty representing at least eleven different disciplines from 7 of the Academy of California full general campuses.
• Co-Founder, 2007-present: UCSB Social Calculating Group <http://socialcomputing.ucsb.edu/> Co-founder (with Kevin Almeroth, Bruce Bimber, Jennifer Earl, Andrew Flanagin, James Frew, Miriam Metzger) of the UCSB Social Calculating Group.  Affiliated with the Transliteracies Project, the UCSB Middle for Information and Engineering (CITS), and the UCSB Credibility and Digital Media project, the Social Computing Group works on the new field of "social computing" that has emerged every bit a result of the increasing touch on of social processes in the online documents of "Web 2.0."  Particular topics of study include: social computing technologies, analytical and data-mining methods, data credibility (new socio-technological mechanisms of authority, quality, and trust), and commonage activity.  The Social Calculating Group organized a research workshop on May 30, 2008, involving extramural scholars, industry specialists, and others in the field.  It is too writing grant proposals (including a NSF IGERT proposal) to start a graduate research and grooming program at UCSB on social computing.
• Principal Investigator, 1998-2007: Transcriptions: Literature and the Culture of Data <http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu>.  NEH-funded Teaching with Engineering science project in the Academy of California, Santa Barbara, English language Section started in 1998.  The project, which involves multiple faculty and graduate students, creates curricular and enquiry materials related to: one. the social, political, economic, and cultural contexts that now make "information" then powerful, and ii. the equivalent contexts that have e'er fabricated literature itself an "information engineering," including the cultures of orality, manuscript, impress, etc.  Transcriptions likewise includes an undergraduate "specialization" or curricular track for English majors. [Note: Transcriptions was renamed the Literature.Culture.Media Center in 2007]
• Full general Editor, 2005-present: The Agrippa Files. <http://agrippa.english.ucsb.edu> Spider web annal (co-created with graduate students) of unique materials related to the origins and composition of the express-edition art book titled Agrippa: A Volume of the Expressionless, with cocky-encrypting (erasing) poem by William Gibson and etchings by Dennis Ashbaugh (New York: Kevin Begos, 1992).   Since its original publication, this rare work has go famous primarily for unauthorized copies of the poem by William Gibson on the Internet.  With the cooperation of the publisher, Kevin Begos, The Agrippa Files makes available photos of the physical art book, the code and an emulation of the original self-encrypting Gibson poem, correspondence and contracts related to the work's publication, a narrative of the origin and development of the work, and resources for critical study.
• Chair, 2002-2007: Electronic Literature System'southward PAD Initiative (Preservation Archiving Dissemination) Engineering/Software Committee <http://www.eliterature.org/programs/pad/>
• Editor, 1994-nowadays: The Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research <http://vos.ucsb.edu>  Initiated in 1994 as a 70+ Web-page directory of online humanities research resources organized past field, historical period, author, etc.  Reimplemented equally database-driven site in 2001 with the assistance of Robert Adlington and Jeremy Douglass.

Interviews

Interviews:

• 2007
  • Interview by Nicole Rex.  "Meaningful Contexts: An Interview with Alan Liu." English Subject field Centre Newsletter, 12 (April 2007): 6-ix.
• 2006
  • Interview by Geert Lovink.  "'I work hither, but I am absurd': Interview with Alan Liu."  Originally posted to the Nettime-l listing, 23 February 2006.  Bachelor from the list archive at <http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Athenaeum/nettime-l-0602/msg00075.html>.  Also bachelor from Net Critique, Plant of Network Cultures, U. Amsterdam.  <http://www.networkcultures.org/geert/interview-with-alan-liu/>
• 2002
  • Interview by Sue Thomas.  Mapping the Transition from Page to Screen research project.  trAce Online Writing Center.  Nottingham Trent Academy, UK. October 2002.  Audio recordings bachelor: Part I (http://trace.ntu.ac.u.k./transition/sound/liu1.mp3), Office 2 (http://trace.ntu.ac.united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland/transition/audio/liu2.mp3)
• 2001
  • Interview by Center for It (CITS).  University of California, Santa Barbara. 20 August 2001.  Video excerpts bachelor on CITS site at <http://www.archive.org/details/CITSAlanLiuonInformationwantstobefreeCITS2002>

Lectures

Selected Lectures:

• 2009
  • "Peopling the Police: A Social Computing Approach to Information Authority in the Historic period of Web 2.0."  The Big Motion-picture show lecture series.  Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. 13 July 2009.
  • "Strange Bookshelves."  Console on "Humanities and Engineering: The By Ten Years, The Side by side Ten Years."  HumaniTech.  University of California, Irvine.  xix May 2009.  [Invited talk]
  • "The End of the End of the Book: Dead Books, Lively Margins, and Social Computing."  Briefing on "Bookishness: The New Fate of Reading in the Digital Age."  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 15 May 2009.  [Invited talk]
  • "Literature+"  Simpson Center.  University of Washington, Seattle.  8 May 2009.  [Invited talk]
  • "When Was Linearity?: Linear Thought, Graphics, and Freedom in the Historic period of Noesis Work."  Simpson Centre.  Academy of Washington, Seattle.  7 May 2009.  [Invited talk]
  • "Digital Humanities and Academic Change."  Gilbert Lecture Serial.  Southern Methodist University.  16 April 2009.  [Invited talk]
  • "From Reading to Social Computing."  Panel on "Methodologies for Literary Studies in the Digital Age."  Modern Linguistic communication Clan convention.  San Francisco.  28 Dec 2008.  [Invited talk]

Bookshelf

Contempo Courses Taught

Quarter	Course	Championship
Leap 2022	ENGL 25S	Honors Literature and the Information, Media, and Advice Revolutions
Spring 2022	ENGL 25	Literature and the Information, Media, and Advice Revolutions
Wintertime 2022	ENGL 146DS	Information Stories: Theory and Social Impact of Information-driven Narratives and Narratives about Data
Fall 2021	ENGL 238	Digital Humanities: Introduction to the Field
Jump 2021	ENGL 25S	Seminar on Literature and the Culture of Information
Jump 2021	ENGL 25	Literature and the Information, Media, and Advice Revolutions
Winter 2021	ENGL 146DS	Information Stories: Theory and Exercise of Information-driven Narratives in the Digital Age
Autumn 2020	ENGL 238	Disquisitional Infrastructure Studies
Spring 2020	ENGL 25	Literature and the Data, Media, and Communication Revolutions
Spring 2020	ENGL 25S	Seminar Literature and Data Media
Fall 2019	ENGL 238	The Humanities and Data Scientific discipline
Spring 2019	ENGL 25	Intro to Literature and the Culture of Data -- Literature and the Information, Media, and Communication Revolutions
Fall 2018	ENGL 238	Critical Infrastructure Studies
Winter 2018	ENGL 149	Media and Data Culture
Fall 2017	ENGL 25	Intro to Literature and the Civilization of Data
Spring 2017	ENGL 25	Literature and the Information, Media, and Communication Revolutions
Spring 2017	ENGL 25S	Seminar on Intro to Literature and the Culture of Information
Wintertime 2017	ENGL 238	Digital Humanities: Introduction to the Field
Leap 2016	ENGL 25	Literature and the Data, Media, and Advice Revolutions
Spring 2015	ENGL 113MI	Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism: Modern Literary Theory

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